Thread: menacing dog classification

has anyone here had their hunting dog classed as menacing by their council and how did you go about objecting the classification?
long story short the hound got out the door while we were getting in the groceries a couple weeks back and went to the neighbors and grabbed and killed one of their chickens and now I have a letter from the council telling me he must be muzzled everywhere outside his kennel and must be desexed and microchipped by the council with all relevant paperwork from a vet to show this has been done.
I haven't been asked for a statement or even had a conversation with the people from the council so for them to knee jerk to that conclusion seems very extreme to me.