Neighbor dog problem, what would you do?

[welsummerchicks]

"Why should we spay our female dogs when it is this one stray"

Because it ISN'T 'this one stray', there are hundreds of loose male dogs in any area, urban or rural. Or dogs that WILL get loose when they smell a female in heat even some miles away. If one don't do it another one will.

And you need to spay your female dogs. That's how it is. You need to deal with this, and stop blaming others. This is your responsibility, not anyone else's. You have female dogs and you don't want pups? You spay your female dogs. This is just one part of being a responsible pet owner.

Six to eight million dogs and cats a year wind up in animal shelters, and it's your type of logic that gets the process started. Spay and neuter.

There is a free mobile spay neuter service in Kentucky, so you have no more excuses.

 

[Judy]

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Because it is the dog owner's responsibility to spay and confine his animals. Simple as that.

I would wager that some male from somewhere will find and impregnate her when she is in heat, whether you see others or not. Yes, he should keep his dogs confined, but so should everyone else, including you, and in a humane manner, which IMO does not include tying or chaining, sorry.

Regardless of why you choose not to, if any dog owner does not control his own dogs, he is at fault. I think you will find this is the law.

That said, I have 3 neutered dogs who I do not confine, either, because they stay on our property and I don't want to spend thousands on a fence. But I accept that whatever happens is my responsibility.

 

[herfrds]

Like welsummerchick has said there is a free clinic.

We took one of our dogs to one. Made a donation.
Heard later that they spayed and neutured over 200 dogs and 300 cats in 2 days.

 

[Stevo]

No it is not your responsibility to spay your dog. It is the other dog owners responsibility to keep their dog from going on your property. Plain and simple.

I would not shoot the dog. It isn't his fault. Shoot the owner

 

[FourPawz]

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If you don't want puppies, you do have to isolate your intact female dogs for a full 3 weeks. By chaining them, you are essentially presenting them to any wandering male in the area. In answer to "what would you do?", I have had my female dogs spayed. They have a fenced acre where they're protected from cars and what have you (and my chooks are protected from them

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[scrambledmess]

No sympathy. Spay your dogs.

It is also illegal in most places to shoot a dog unless it is threatening harm to you or one of your animals. Having a go around with an intact female is not threatening her.

None of the male dogs around here are neutered. They all run loose even with the leash laws. I put up a fence AND took my female to a spay clinic and had her fixed. Male dogs will travel miles and miles to find a female in heat.

Your dog. YOUR responsibility.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

You think you have the right to have your dogs running loose but your neighbor don't.... OOOKKKKKK

 

[Hound]

Are you serious?! You should be allowed to let your female in heat roam around the neighborhood without her getting pregnant? You should be able to leave females in heat tied outside with no fence and not end up with puppies? Your neighbor is the irresponsible one?!

Spay them already. God forbid you should have to shell out $100 per dog, how much does raising a litter cost every time?! That's probably a stupid question in this case.

If you don't want litter after litter of puppies DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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I agree.


Not sure what part of Kentucky you are in but here is a page with a list of Low Cost Spay Neuter programs. http://www.woodfordhumanesociety.org/Spay-Neuter_Resource_List.htm
http://www.louisvilleky.gov/AnimalS...ion/S.P.O.T.+Low+Cost+Veterinary+Services.htm

 

[pips&peeps]

Spay your dog, it's cheaper than a fence.