There is alot of confusion over the law of having beware of the dog signs in your home.
Aparently if you have a beware of the dg sign in your home then you admit your dog is dangerous towards people and if someboby gets bitten in your home then they are able to sue you.
BUT!!! BUT! does this mean are you responsible if someboby breaks in your house and robs you? or someboby walks in invited or uninvited and attacks you in some way or does it mean your JUST reliable if he bites the gas man or post man etc??? it does not say.
I have signs all around my house saying beware of the dogs one of which says i will bite because he will if you break in. where does this law apply if you no what i mean? please get back to me x

I would recommend you ask a local attorney. I have been told you should always have "NO TRESPASSING" signs if you are going to have dog signs.

Bottom line is if someone breaks into your house that's when you shoot them in the head with your Glock !! Glocks and shotguns work much better than dogs.

Let the dog have some fun, then you shoot him :-0 The guy was fighting through the dog to get to you and yours so you had to deploy a multi layered defense strategy. This way your dog gets experience and the world is one less scumbag. Its a win-win.

Howard

Laws protect the dirt bags, lawyers do anything for a buck, no prayers in schools, what is this country coming to? sorry off the topic but had to vent.

Ditto Ed, Howard, and Mitch.

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Aparently if you have a beware of the dg sign in your home then you admit your dog is dangerous towards people and if someboby gets bitten in your home then they are able to sue you.

If your dog bites somebody in your house (invited person) you could get sued, sign or no sign.

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BUT!!! BUT! does this mean are you responsible if someboby breaks in your house and robs you?

That'll be the day, when a thief sues you because he got bit while he was working on your house, lol. A little common sense goes a long way sometimes

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does it mean your JUST reliable if he bites the gas man or post man etc???

I'm not sure how the law goes where you live, but post men work for the federal government, and you could definitely get sued if your dog bites them while they are at work. What they'll do is probably tell you that they won't deliver the mail to your house anymore while the dog is alive, and will make you pay for a PO Box if you're still interested in receiving your mail. I'm not sure how your dog could bite the mail man if he's in a back yard or whatever.

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I have signs all around my house saying beware of the dogs one of which says i will bite because he will if you break in.

Don't quite understand what your sign says, but they usually work as a deterrence to scumbags who want to rob you. Sign or no sign, if you are negligent handling your dog and someone is bit because of it, you will get sued. Suppose a kid sticks his hand to pet your dog because he didn't see the sign... Well, if I were a judge I would tell the mother of the child that she was negligent for not supervising her child.

You get where I'm going?

I live in a very liberal state, Massachusetts. To circumvent the beware of dog signs, we put "rescue our German Shepherd" stickers in the windows and a sign on our fence that asks Firemen/Police to rescue our GSD in case of fire or emergency. Sends the same message without the implied threat.

And have a gun.

No I didn't Judy, but he obviously didn't tell the judge he was breaking in the house. I would guess you either have the facts wrong, or there's more to the story. Or we should all move to California and start a gang.

Ok, I apologize in advance, this is kind of off topic although it does talk about suing people.

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck
who spilled hot coffee on herself
and successfully sued McDonald's (in USA).
That case inspired the Stella Awards
for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.
Here are this year's winners (from 5th to 1st place)

5th Place (tie):

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas,
was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers
after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler
who was running inside a furniture store.

The owners of the store were understandably surprised
at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

5th Place (tie):

19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles
won $74,000 and medical expenses
when his neighbour ran over his hand
with a Honda Accord.

Mr Truman apparently didn't notice
there was someone at the wheel of the car
when he was trying to steal his neighbour's hubcaps.

5th Place (tie):

Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place!
4th Place:

Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas,
was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses
after being bitten on the buttocks
by his next door neighbour's beagle.
The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard.
The award was less than sought because the jury felt
the dog might have been just a little provoked
at the time by Mr Williams who had climbed
over the fence into the yard
and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place:

A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered
to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink
and broke her coccyx (tailbone).
The beverage was on the floor
because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend
30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place:

Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware,
successfully sued the owner of a night club
in a neighbouring city when she fell
from the bathroom window to the floor
and knocked out her two front teeth.
This occurred while Ms Walton was trying
to sneak through the window in the ladies room
to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge .
She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place:

This year's runaway winner was Mrs Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mrs Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago (RV) motor home. On her first trip home, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich.
Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.