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• Page 1 of 1 Officer Paulson, Having worked with Paul Bengtson all last summer on the issue of 10 chickens, three of which are roosters, located at 472 Greenwood Lane, he told us that chickens are classified as pets. Unbelievable!! We were lead to believe that chickens were not allowed by Paul and he said he sent out letters to the party regarding this early on in June. As the chickens continued to roam dropping feces all over my yard and crowing all hours of the day I called Paul again late August. He finally got back to me and said the city attorney said that chickens are pets and they could keep them. They were told to keep the chickens in their yard by Paul. Well here we are, spring has arrived, working in the garage and guess what is standing next to my husband but one of the roosters. The rooster continued to stay in our yard for over four hours. I called the police as Paul had said to do. I called around 2:00 PM on Friday 3/14/08. I returned home at approx. 6:30 PM and the rooster was still in our yard. Did my call not mean anything to the city? Also the rooster's crow early morning hours and all hours if the day. Dogs are not allowed to do this why rooster's ?? Now it is Friday 3/28/08. It is a beautiful evening after work, my husband and I have decided to sit out in the warm sun and have a fire and relax after a long week. After about 10 min's the dog at said property came into our yard and proceeded to bark at us for proximately one half hour. No one attempted to retrieve the dog. Last year one of our neighbors had asked them in person to please control your dogs and chickens. Frustrating. The only way we can get away from the dog is to retrieve into our home. I decided that we will not go through another summer like this. We have tried on our own to handle the situation. I then called the police to document the dog and the dog was in our yard when he arrived. The officer then went over to talk with the owner of the dog. A few minutes later the gentlemen walked over to our home. We thought he was going to apologies but no he intimidated my husband. He stated, "my dog does not bother anyone ", then proceeded to call my husband a fat pig and that he had a girly voice and pushed our screen door on my husband's arm. The F word was this person's choice word. He also threatened, if we ever had a party in our yard he was going to call the police. We have lived in our house for almost 25 years and have never had a complaint about our behavior so I don't know where this is coming from.. This guy was out of control. We had a very uncomfortable evening after this happened. We did call the police officer back to tell him what had transpired so it should be on record for you to look at. Please advise. Thank You Diane Cable 462 Greenwood Lane Lino Lakes, MN 651 -780 -5108 http: / /us.f545.mail. yahoo.com/ym/Compose ?DMi d =713 2_2101419_ 1024_475_ 1522_0_2... 3/31/2008