Irresponsible dog owners...gotta rant!

[TXmom]

On another thread like this, I loved the suggestion of a paint gun

Getting hit with those paint balls hurts a little bit but not fatal, and there will be no question about who was in your yard. The dogs won't like it and it might keep them away, and the owners will know that they were bothering you again.

 

[soonerdog]

I have had a similar experience with a neighbor's dog also. I first asked them to confine the dog on their property. Then I contacted animal control. Animal control came out to inquire about their dog's roaming the neighborhood.
The animal control officer told me not to chase the dog away if it comes to my property. He told me, rather, take the opportunity to video the dog when it is roaming freely in the neighborhood and on my property. He said after I have made the video of the dog roaming freely on several different dates to telephone him and he will come get the video. He said that having the video allows animal control the proof they need to confront the owner with a more serious approach as to wheather or not the owner will be allowed to keep the dog. Time will tell.

 

[mirecipes]

I was also gonna suggest the paint gun..

Our last case of a loose dog around here belonged the the son of the folks accross the road..
The kid was leaving his window open and the dog kept getting loose..
The dog came on my property, and I had an aluminum pole I was gonna whack it with if it came too close..
(We have been told that if the dogs are coming after our livestock, we can shoot em..)
The mom came running over and rescued the dog..I haven't seen the dog since..I figured she told the son about about me, and he wised up

My dog Sheila -is- a chicken killer..We now have a 6 foot high privacy fence with double locks on the gates..
She is not allowed out there unless I'm close enough to hear what is going on..She hasn't figured out she could dig under the fence..Yeaa for that

I'm in the process (still) of training her son to "protect the babies"
But I will never let either one of them roam free..
Or even be around the chickens without me there.

 

[debilorrah]

Paint gun and THEN call animal control. Double whammy.

 

[rufus]

I have found that if you leave a very dead animal out for those puppies to roll in, their owners will keep their dogs at home. The riper, the better.

Rufus

 

[Chicken Fruit]

The best offense is a good fence. Why do you not have your female, intact, in heat dog behind a fence that no other dogs can get into. Theres a big difference between what people SHOULD have to do with their dogs, what DECENT people would do with their dogs, and what really happens in real life.

We cant control our neighbors, their animals, or their anythings. Thats why we have solid wood fences. End of story.

Its a fool that looks around and says, "stop effecting me", instead of setting up their life to be uneffected.

If you want to have something done about it all, pick up the dogs one day and dump them off at the nearest shelter, or call the dog warden.

I agree with you completely that these people should have their dogs contained, but not doing anything about your own needs and property is just silly.

raw wood runs only a few cents a linear foot for pine or hemlock. Both make easy strong long lasting great looking fences. Its what we use, works well for us. We is po right now too, and still managed to fence our property.

I know you can make a really nice looking dog yard for about 200 bucks, ours was abut 25 foot square- maybe a little bigger. We used those garden planter poles they have in the summer from depot or lowes- theyre like 2x3 or 3x3 treated as posts. And then tacked welded wire fencing to it (about 4foot high by 50 foot long runs like 40 bucks or a bit more) with some raw lumber furring strips tacked to the tops and bottoms between poles. It was INSANELY cheap, looked really decent, and went together in no time.

I totally agree with the post below- some times our responsibilities as breeders take us to extremes.

 

[NancyDz]

I agree with most of what was said above but I think it all goes out the window if your dog is in heat. I would never expect an underground fence to keep a male dog away from a female in heat. Even the best trained male dog will go nuts when they smell a female in heat. I think when your female is in heat it's your responsibility to enclose her in an area that other dogs can't get to her. Fences and dog kennels are not safe for a female in heat and definitely an underground fence is just asking for trouble as that only keeps your dog in.

SHe needs to be escorted outside while she's in heat and kept inside in a garage or your house with a diaper on. Dogs will mate through a kennel wall if need be.

Now when she's not in heat, that's another story... but shooting a male dog that is going
after a female in heat... I kind of think that's extreme. Now if the dog is coming on your property other times.. then it's a problem but if the only time you see these dogs is when your female is in heat.. I think you need to cut them some slack. I've seen male dogs that
would never consider leaving their yard or even seem capable of it , scale 6- 8 feet fences when they smell a female in heat. If you are going to breed, then it's your responsibility to
keep your female safe and a underground fence is not protection from male dogs.

I'm a firm believer in spay and neuter. My aussie/doxie is a product of a aussie breeder expecting her female to be safe in a kennel. Her neighbors wire haired doxie traveled 3 miles
to get to her and they mated through the fence. This doxie had never even gone more than 20 feet from it's back door previous to this episode and hasnt since. That instinct to breed throws all training/logic/ safety out the window. I think your expectations of male dogs with a female in heat around.. are too high. You just have to take extra precautions when she's in heat...

Good luck

 

[mjdtexan]

I absolutely can not stand irresponsible dog owners!!!!!!! Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Really, it ticks me off. My neighbors on both sides of me are that way. I try to train my dogs to stay in the yard so that I can leave the gates to both properties open during the day for easy egress and such. My neighbors dogs just run the streets and my youngest dog (Brutus) wants to go play. Whats worse both of my neighbors dogs want to play in our unfenced in back pasture. I am in the middle of putting up a barbed wire fence so that I can run two steers at the end of this month. I am worried about my neighbors dogs running the beef off of the steers.

NEITHER of my neighbors speak English. Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, sorry about the rant and the hijacking of your thread, I just wanted you to know that you are not alone.

On a side note, my neighbors duck when I start practice shooting out in the back pasture with some of my AR-15's. They are normally watching my every move. Not during target practice for some reason. Nowhere to be seen.

 

[gypsy2621]

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The Female is contained and supervised, The Original poster has every right to keep her female intact.
She also has the right for us to respect that.
Other peoples dogs and cats should not be allowed to roam free , after all thats what Leash Laws are supposed to be for.

 

[mirecipes]

My dog Mac is a product of what happens when a dog is in heat..
I had the "gotta go's" and left Sheila only for a minute out on the front leash (this was before we got the 6 foot tall privacy fence.)
I squirted that darned dog in the privates with a hose and he still wouldn't leave her alone..
I had only had Sheila about a month when this happened (She had been abandoned by the neighbors on the corner that left her when they moved out..She is now fixed even tho she made the most beautiful blue eyed puppies)
I must admit..Mac is my "sweetheart" Even tho he was an accident..I love him more than life itself...(as they say)
These 2 dog have truly changed my life..
But I'm definitly a firm supporter of getting dogs fixed..
Those male dawgies just have no control when they smell a dog in heat!

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