This is the first time since he was declared vicious that he had gotten out of the house, and that was not because any stipulations or precautions weren't taken. The article failed to mention how the post office was telling everyone on the street that Buster had previously attacked a mail man in Warren and put him in the hospital, when Buster nor his owner have ever lived in Warren. This was why they shut the street down, because they assumed it was the same dog and told everyone the same story which led to the dog officer having to go to every house and straighten things out. Buster has never bitten anyone or mauled anyone; his approach is what scares people because he's a big dog who gets excited and runs at people to see them. The post office also told neighbors on the street that they had been unable to reach the owner when they had already spoken with him.
They say that shutting down mail for the street was a last resort, but how is that so? There was never a previous incident on that street, they never got notified of any issues with the mail man, so what happened before that that drove them to the "last" resort?
Also it wasn't after the incident that happened with the post man the first time that he was taken. He wasn't declared vicious because of that incident, it was because he had gotten out a few times, had supposedly "charged" someone, and because he wasn't licensed yet. In Bristol, all that needs to happen for a dog to be declared vicious is that they get out of their house on a few occasions and they aren't licensed; nothing actually needs to happen.
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