Keeping of pet dogs in the multi-owned residential building in Hong Kong : conflicts and resolution

Abstract

There are more Hong Kong people are raising and keeping dogs in their housing units, especially private housing estates or residential buildings. It is found that a lot more conflicts emerge because of dog. There are different problems in the estates or residential buildings so that the residents are discontent to the nuisance. The housing managers are inevitably intervene in the conflicts and try to resolve the conflicts. The managers try to communicate with both confronting parties and facilitate during the handling of conflicts. It is suggested that people who are living in these estates are already prepared before they move in and during their daily living. Different people have different ‘belief’, so that different people have different level of tolerance. Having worked on this research, it is found that there is no direct correlation between tolerance and whether the resident is a dog owner or non-dog owner. The housing managers are suggested to study more on the captioned topic in order to acquire more knowledge on this aspect so as to handle the dog nuisance case easier in the coming future.