Re: Dog Killed the neighbours cat

DaveB

Agreed, it isn’t so simple as just blaming the other owner. My friend, she has to take some liability as the cat wasn’t supervised neither was the dog. So both in some ways are responsible 50/50. I reckon a 50/50 split of vet bills, would be fair, as both were negligent.

The Dog Owner has to accept some blame I reckon. He showed disregard by not haveing his dog supervised or on a leash, knowing that cats were allowed to be kept as pets in the building. Equally my friend with the cat, she had her cat unsupervised aware of dogs were allowed in the building.

The OC, here doesn’t have to out up signs so it’s hard for them to be sued and re-imburse the vet costs.

I reckon a 50/50 split would be a fair settlement,but what’s clear is the cat owner my friend has to take 50% of the blame I reckon, some may say more or less, but I reckon 50%, and she should incur 50% of the vet costs.

Where she may have a case is there’s some laws possibly about animals in some animals act. That if a person or other animal is attacked, even if it’s on there property the owner of the animal who attacked and cause injury is responsible or can be held liable. It’s a thorny issue, as owner’s of other pets, primarily cats can’t cry foul if they let there cats run outside knowing other dogs are around in the building. 

Baronia- If it happened outside of the Strata Plan zone, that would be a different matter, so not much point going into the hypotheticals, but maybe then for sure then the owner of the dog would have to pay the vet bills 100%.