Is there a leash law in your city, county? I live out in the sticks and there is actually a leash law in the county where I live which kind of surprised me. Had to call twice on some neighbors who wouldn't keep their dogs on their own property. They said the first complaint and they would send a letter. I think second time was a letter and a phone call and on the third complaint they would actually send a sheriff's deputy out to the house to serve a fine of some sort.