For the past four years Tas Networks has advised its meter readers not to enter a property in the presence of any unrestrained dog.
Meter reader Lindsay Harvey said she had a device that told her whether or not a property had a dog, but it did not say if the dog was confined or not.
In the past 12 months more than one million meter readings were taken but nearly 7,000 were abandoned because of the presence of a dog.
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