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Page 4 of 35 Mr. Pearson and Meridith spoke after the incident. Mr. Pearson showed Meridith his boot, which had a single puncture in it. Mr. Pearson informed Meridith he felt the pressure of the tooth on his foot but that as soon as he felt the pressure, the pressure let up; no skin was broken. The incident was reported to the police and a potentially dangerous dog letter was issued. The potentially dangerous dog letter references the incident as a “bite.” The police report and photo of boot is attached. See Exhibit 9. Mr. Pearson during nice weather rides past our home where the incident occurred on a frequent basis (near daily or even multiple times a day). This demonstrates that Mr. Pearson is either not scared of Hammerheart or he is at least not so scared that he avoids the property. Incident on May 28, 2020 On May 28, 2020, Meridith’s sister, Becky Burke, was visiting during the day. Ms. Burke volunteered to walk the dogs since Meridith was recovering from a broken ankle and torn ACL. Ms. Burke was downstairs when she volunteered to walk the dogs and Meridith was upstairs. Ms. Burke had left with the dogs before Meridith made it down the stairs to assist in setting up the harness. Ms. Burke left without putting the harness on Hammerheart, which again, controls his walking and generally subdues him by placing him in “walk” mode. Ms. Burke has infrequently walked the dogs but has been with Meridith on several occasions when Meridith was walking Hammerheart and Hammerheart exhibited leash reactive behaviors. Based on this, Meridith believed that that Ms. Burke was aware of the precautions needed to be taken when walking Hammerheart. While Ms. Burke was walking the dogs on the sidewalk near Silver Lake Road and 33rd Avenue, a runner, Tim Hayden, approached. As Mr. Hayden was approaching, Ms. Burke took the dogs to the side of the sidewalk and grabbed the dogs’ leashes between the top of the leash and the traffic control handle. Ms. Burke did not give the dogs verbal commands to sit and stay, which is again how they have been trained. As Mr. Hayden ran by, Hammerheart jumped at him. Both Ms. Burke and Mr. Hayden describe the jump as an “excited” jump. There was barking as Hammerheart jumped but no growling, snarling, or other signs of aggression. Based on the statement made by Mr. Hayden (neither Meridith nor David was there, and Ms. Burke just saw the jump but not a mouth open or bite), Hammerheart bit him in the stomach. There was a single bite. There was not any substantial bleeding. Ms. Burke hollered at Hammerheart and pulled on his leash. Hammerheart responded by calming down immediately and made no further attempts to jump towards or advance towards Mr. Hayden. My. Hayden stated at that time it looked like he could have reached out to pet Hammerheart. Mr. Hayden walked back to Meridith’s home with Ms. Burke, with Hammerheart and Talisker walking on the other side of her. Hammerheart made no attempts to approach Mr. Hayden as they were walking, and Mr. Hayden did not feel threatened or scared by Hammerheart. Mr. Hayden stated at Meridith’s home he did 20