Annoying neighbor rant- They wanna KILL my dogs!! longish story....

[Beekissed]

Well said, Pat!

Actually, you can sorta train awful neighbors to respect your space...at least I did. I had neighbors who had a whole PACK of dogs that caused total havoc at my place for quite awhile. They even chained a continually barking dog right on the property line so it was as far away from their house as possible..and very close to mine. I reported them for the dogs running loose and getting hit on the road, getting into my trash EVERY Monday morning without fail, chewing up anything that was on my porch and terrorizing my kids. Nothing happened.....until I borrowed a few guns.

Every time the chained dog barked, I shot it with a BB gun. It soon learned to keep its fool mouth shut.

The last time I reported the dogs about my trash and nothing resulted, I shot the first dog I saw in my trash. A running shot from about 50 yards away....good shot if I say so myself.

I soon had no dogs to deal with and soon after that, they moved away. Problem solved.

 

[Wifezilla]

Neighbor's dog attacks your dog on your property...neighbor's fault.
Your dog gets lose and the neighbor's dog kills it on the neighbor's property.....YOUR fault.

 

[chick4chicks]

WOW, This sure turned out to be something. First off the neighbor is totally responsible for what their dog did to your dog. They should have paid the entire bill. You are responsible for your dogs staying on your property. I see you are working on that good. You need to report the dog as dangerous, 3 strikes your out. I love dogs so I hate to see any of them hurt but a dangerous dog needs to be dealt with by the law. I am sorry about your dogs injuries and for the way the neighbor is being so nasty. I hope you can move and be happy and safe in your new home. Take care.

 

[RunnerDucks]

I think you mistake my concern for your children and dogs as "meanness". I don't want anybody to be hurt, and as I see it, you have the ability to prevent what seems to be an inevitable outcome, but because you're angry at needing to, you won't.

My own dog is only allowed outside supervised... and we have a fenced yard! Why? Because ONE time he managed to escape from the fence, and for his own safety, he has no lost alone-in-the-yard privileges. For exercise, we bike and walk together or go into the yard together and play fetch. If someone or something had the ability and desire to hurt my dog, I would step up "security" even more. It's not convenient. But I took him on as my responsibility, and so I will do what it takes to keep him safe.

I understand completely about being upset about the whole situation. I was really angry at our neighbors because their little dog would run into our yard and harass my dog through the fence. Their dog would come onto our property and bark at us... the nerve! I was at the point where I was making threats (not directly to the neighbors) about wanting to run over their dog when it was in my driveway barking at me. But I didn't have to... because the other day it was hit by someone else's vehicle and killed.

I am a very firm believer in "do unto others....". If you don't like their dog coming onto your property, acting aggressive towards you or your dogs, or annoying you, then don't allow your dogs to do those things to them. You have the ability to fully control your dog, no excuses. If I can control a dog-aggressive 110+ pound beast of a dog (he is almost as big as me), then you can control some purse dogs. And a hint: my dog's aggression towards other dogs got SO much worse when that dog from across the street started taunting him through the fence. If you allow your dogs to do that, next time that dog gets out, there will be no life-saving surgery. Your dog will be dead because the neighbor's dog is going to have a lot of pent up anger.

And if you're fully in control of your dogs, you won't look like a hypocrite if you do take action against their dog when it's on your property next time. If you did it right now, you'd be in the wrong. Could you imagine if you had a neighbor who was always on your property, and you decided to go onto theirs, and they ran at you screaming and yelling obscenities? Would that seem right?

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

 

[Brindlebtch]

Quote:
What redhen said.

 

[mamawolf544]

But with all this being said and I do feel for you, honestly.

Some folks are just crazy

We have a GP on a very long lead on the front of our property, it stretches from the front in the tree row straight down my frony "yard" about 300 feet or so and he is attched to that on a 40 foot lead. He has plenty of room and we do walk him all the time, so he can get his smell on.

Now he used to live with the goats but I was having coyotes come up the front way trying to get my

. So we moved him. Our neighbors have 2 little cute pit puppies they take for walks down in front of my house, which is fine. But they did have them on leashes. Now my GP's name is Bear and he is the sweetest dog in the world and a rescue. He stays up night after night protecting his flock.

Well last week I was sitting in my office and I heard Bear bark, I looked out and there was one of the pups about 2 feet from Bear doing the cute little puppy wag of the tail, so excited to see Bear. And he was standing still, now quiet, tail straight out. I ran outside and politely said please grab the puppy, Bear will kill it. And this goofy girl said "Oh Well If it dies it dies!" I said no, no. I dont want Bear to kill anyone's pet. He is a livestock guardian dog and he will be doing his job. And it would break my heart for something to happen to the puppy. So when she saw I was not being rude that I honestly was concerned for the safety of her dog, she then said Thank you.

I know it takes all kinds to make the world go round and round and round.

 

[babyblue]

each person is responsible for their property. your dog gets lose (not on your land) its your fault. their dog gets lose (not on their land) its their problem.

IMHO if I was to continue living there I would either put up some sort of fencing to protect my children and property and I would also keep the under trained dogs on a leash. that is you as the owners responsiblity.

 

[cassie]

Get an invisible fence or something equally inexpensive. Shop around. Look on craigslsit. I do not know about your state, but here, while it is legal to kill a trespassing dog that is harrassing your livestock it is not legal to kill one that is just passing through.

 

[ranchhand]

Gosh, what a mess. I have read EVERY post - otherwise I would not comment.

I think a lot of the problem is the rude words being exchanged between neighbors, who are feeling pretty hostile towards each other. Resentment and blame seem to be in the starring roles in this drama.

I'd love to hear the other side of the story though, because at this point I see fault on both sides of the fence.