Mailman ran over our dog . . .its the THIRD dog he has killed!

[Hoosiermomma]

Geez 3? Come on that's not a coincidence!!!!!! First of all, call and report him. Was it the same one? Secondly get an underground fence then you can let them run and they will stay away from the road. The underground will cost you less than 1 or 2 sections of fencing. Check on C.L or put an add on your local freecycle site.
Okay do you live on a county road or is the area more residential? That mailperson would have to be going really fast either coming or going to hit a dog and kill it. I've seen a dog rolled by a truck/trailer going 35mph and get up and walk away virtually unscathed so he would have to be going faster than that. Has he never heard of something that all vehicles have is either square or rectangular in nature.....a break?????

Good thing that wasn't me it happened to because I would have his job now. Although after the first time my dogs wouldn't be roaming.

I don't believe in rollling a car to avoid an accident with an animal (although I would it if was just me in the car) but at the same time if I am in an area that I know, potentially, that an animal could run out at anytime, I tend to go slower. I was always taught to be a defensive driver and then some and that's exactly how I drive. I am always anticipating what can happen. If it were up to me I would lower the speed limit everywhere. I don't think it needs to be as high as it is anyway in most places.

 

[Ashmeade]

Sorry for your loss. Regarding your dogs wandering in the road though, one thing to keep in mind is that if your dog causes an accident, you can be held liable...

 

[Boyd]

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Actually if I were that mailman and somebody complained to that, I'd have animal control, the sherriff's office etc citing her for dog at large..... and if you read her story, the dog is running after the MM, so it likely RAN into or under it. Doesn't matter how fast it is going. They can report away, but in the end, they'll be the ones burned, not the mailman.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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I live in the Midwest too, roaming dogs are a problem.

That is the one thing I can say about ours, they only went across the road to the church lot and smelled around and came right back home. Never went any further, but the tiny town I live in has dogs all over and every single one of them come down here and poop in our yard and hunt our bunnies.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Actually if I were that mailman and somebody complained to that, I'd have animal control, the sherriff's office etc citing her for dog at large..... and if you read her story, the dog is running after the MM, so it likely RAN into or under it. Doesn't matter how fast it is going. They can report away, but in the end, they'll be the ones burned, not the mailman.

Actually, you're right. Oreo was running around like a chicken with its head off because of crazy Lucy our other dog. . .he was 4 months old and didn't know enough to stay away from the wheel, which ran right over his head. We are the only people in town who have dogs running loose that stay right here with us. They go across the road to the church lot and smell around, but other than that they stay right in our yard. The mailman doesn't like our dogs, because they bark at him, even told the neighbor they needed to shoot our dog . . .so he had an issue long before this happened. If your dogs can't bark at people coming around your property, not much sense in having dogs for protecting your own.
Animal control in our county is a joke, if someone called it would take them a week to get here, and then they would get the wrong house/dog/cat whatever. We are very rural, and usually are left alone about leash laws. I said at the beginning it was totally our fault, but THREE dogs . . .and that is only OURS. We don't know how many others he may have ran over.

 

[Whispering Winds]

This underground fence you are talking about . . .is this the same thing as "invisible fencing" with the collar and sensor? The reason I want the white picket is because we have a big old two story Victorian that would just be glorious with that white fence . . .

 

[lorieMN]

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what world do you live in??? I am sure the dogs where ON THE ROAD,I doubt he took out across a field in a postal van after them,if ran over by the tire,you could be barely moving and it would kill the dog,speed has nothing to do with it,it depends on where the dog was actually hit,actually OP is lucky he hasnt refused delivery to them,the only person to blame for these dogs deaths is their owner..and I believe they are aware of that.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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Actually if I were that mailman and somebody complained to that, I'd have animal control, the sherriff's office etc citing her for dog at large..... and if you read her story, the dog is running after the MM, so it likely RAN into or under it. Doesn't matter how fast it is going. They can report away, but in the end, they'll be the ones burned, not the mailman.

That's true but after the first one then you can take precautions if there are others and maybe go a little slower. One I can understand but 3? Granted they shouldn't be allowed to roam and especially chase cars. I agree with that. I'm just playing devil's advocate b/c I know she isn't the only one who does that. There are soooooo many others. There are so many (humane) ways to keep animals contained without chaining. But people these days drive recklessly without any regard for anyone or anything in their way. That's evident by the hit and runs we hear about on the news daily, or the animal carcasses we see on the road/roadside.
So I do think it goes both ways.

 

[horsejody]

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I assume that when a dog is chasing a slow moving vehicle it's very easy for the dog to run under the tire. There's a big difference between a dog getting bumped and rolled out of the way by a slow moving vehicle than one that was caught under a tire. The mailman's vehicle was on the road legally. The dog wasn't. If the dog was little, he probably didn't even see it close to the tires. This is more of a pet management problem than an evil mailman problem. If a person knows that their dog chases cars or harrasses people, it is extremely irresponsible to not contain or train the dog. Why would it take 3 dead dogs to correct this? Why blame the mailman? Gosh, I guess maybe he should just take one for the team and swerve and hit a telephone pole or roll his vehicle in the ditch.

Lesson for the day:
If your dog chases the mail truck every day, it is inevitable that sooner or later he will be killed by the mail truck.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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Actually if I were that mailman and somebody complained to that, I'd have animal control, the sherriff's office etc citing her for dog at large..... and if you read her story, the dog is running after the MM, so it likely RAN into or under it. Doesn't matter how fast it is going. They can report away, but in the end, they'll be the ones burned, not the mailman.

Actually, you're right. Oreo was running around like a chicken with its head off because of crazy Lucy our other dog. . .he was 4 months old and didn't know enough to stay away from the wheel, which ran right over his head. We are the only people in town who have dogs running loose that stay right here with us. They go across the road to the church lot and smell around, but other than that they stay right in our yard. The mailman doesn't like our dogs, because they bark at him, even told the neighbor they needed to shoot our dog . . .so he had an issue long before this happened. If your dogs can't bark at people coming around your property, not much sense in having dogs for protecting your own.
Animal control in our county is a joke, if someone called it would take them a week to get here, and then they would get the wrong house/dog/cat whatever. We are very rural, and usually are left alone about leash laws. I said at the beginning it was totally our fault, but THREE dogs . . .and that is only OURS. We don't know how many others he may have ran over.

Animal control is most counties is a joke. They are so overburdened by all the calls they get. Most times they don't even answer the calls. I agree with what a previous poster said, you are lucky that there haven't been any accidents caused by your dogs crossing the road b/c you would be liable. Unfortunately someone on our street who was riding a quad was killed b/c a neighbor's dog ran out in front of him and he not only killed the dog but himself as well. ;(