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(3) been found to be potentially dangerous, and after the owner has notice that the dog is potentially dangerous, the dog aggressively bites, attacks, or endangers the safety of humans or domestic animals. We have had our Rotties for 6 years without any dangerous incident. They do bark at strangers approaching their property just like a Chihuahua would. That is normal behavior, does that make them scarier? Maybe due to size and unfortunately, color, some people have a pre -disposition towards them. However, I want to point that I have 3 other neighbors around and when they work in their yards the dogs, although initially may bark at them to let them know they are there, they immediately leave them alone and go back to mind their own business. One of the concerns someone had at the Planning meeting was "barking dogs:". Our dogs are not barkers outside of what at normal barking level is, if not lower. They are very well behaved when outside and because of their nature they don't "need to" bark. Sometimes they come out charging and barking when there is deer or other dogs inside our yard, but any other dog does that. Then they immediately stop after a few barks and never had crossed the invisible fence line. That is consistent with normal barking levels, yes their bark may be louder, but comparable to other large dogs around. In all these years we have not have complaints about barking other than our neighbor Silva, just to be told by the police that the dogs are barking within normal parameters. Barking is not an issue for our dogs and I would respectfully ask that you don't consider this when making your decision. In another note, I would like to explain or give context to the presence of the dogs in the yard. We both work all day, our daughter goes to school and works, and while not currently in school, our almost 12- year-old son cares for the dogs in the mornings. While he was in school, the dogs would stay inside during the day. Our son does not let the dogs unattended or in the yard for other than to relieve themselves. During weekdays, we play with them in our yard for 1-2 hours and that's as much as they are out playing at once. On the weekends we may have them out more. Occasionally the neighbor comes out and yes, the dogs run towards that side of the yard and may bark as they see her, but then they quickly stop and we retrieve them and out of respect to her feelings, we bring them inside. We feel we go the extra mile with all the neighbors, but particularly with her as others don't care that our dogs are outside playing or just sunbathing, and we are proactively keeping far from kids playing outside, etc. and not because they are dangerous, but we want all kids to feel comfortable playing outside. That's what we have the backyard for. We do rely in the invisible fence and their setting in their collars is set to the max. Since the incident with Loki's battery we are diligently monitoring batteries and ensuring the fence is in working conditions. I respectfully request that these issues are set aside when considering the approval of this request. There are other appropriate venues our neighbor can follow for her concerns. Since the last meeting, we have been following all the conditions and things appear to be working ok so even 3 dogs at a time is working, we do have a rotation program is not as bad as I had anticipated. Of course, we would love the opportunity to have 4 dogs at once with at least 2 adults supervising if possible. As far as the front yard, we rarely allow our Rotties in the front, and when we do it is for minimal time and ALWAYS supervised. I walk my dogs occasionally through the neighbor and I am surprised to see so many large dogs in the front of the houses alone. That's the right of the person but again, out of respect and consideration to neighbors we never allow dogs in the front unsupervised. The isolated case from two summers ago was unfortunate but was just a one-time failure and we learned from that.