A Tauranga woman will go head-to-head with city council animal control officers tomorrow in a hearing to prevent the enforced removal of her dog.

The council wants to move Leanne Leonard's Shar-Pei cross following 27 complaints about his barking from ten different complainants over the last nine months.

Blue is a 14-month-old Shar-Pei cross. Photo: Facebook.

Leanne, who works from her Jonathon Street home, denies that 14-month-old Blue is the culprit and insists that other dogs are to blame.

The first complaint about his barking was made when Blue was an unregistered puppy living in Welcome Bay.

The dog was put behind bars in May 2014 when he was found roaming and unregistered, but was released once fees and registration had been paid.

Council staff then discovered the dog had moved after receiving a complaint about a barking dog in Jonathon Street on July 30.

Leanne was sent a letter along with a brochure offering information on how to discourage a barking dog.

The complaints continued, and another letter was sent on August 13. An abatement notice was also issued, requiring Leanne to take steps to reduce the barking which some complainants say goes on for more than an hour at a time.

A notice to permanently remove Blue was issued on October 21.

'The objector has not accepted that her dog is barking and has taken no responsibility to reduce the complaints,” says the hearing report.

'The complainants are situated all around her property and identify this property and dog as the cause.”

Council animal control staff say Blue is a loud, persistent barker and a nuisance.

Leanne objected to the notice and Blue's future residential address will be decided by the hearing's panel, chaired by Matt Cowley with commissioners Steve Morris and Bev Edlin.