ameliadanielle
Songster
I have friends that are police officers. Most try to just get through the day without having to deal with anything crazy. I'll also throw this out there, I was bitten by a neighbors pit bull. The three of them roam loose and I was taking a walk around the neighborhood. I'm so glad my daughter wasn't with me. The three of them came up to me wagging their tails and wanting to be petted and sniffing me. I do not pet other people's dogs unless they say it is OK and I didn't want them circling around me and following me on my walk. So I kept walking, they went back to their yard. Well on the way home, it was dark, I was using a flashlight. I didn't even hear them come up behind me. They were silent. The first idea I had that they had come back to follow me was when one of them latched onto my arm. Luckily I didn't panic and scream or try to jerk my arm away, I just stared at him until he let go and they ran off. But I did have a nice handy flashlight that I could at least break some ribs with if I had to. I walk with a gun now. Because the county did zero to make the owners contain their dogs. They shut them up for 3 days then turned them again. They weren't even liable for my hospital bill, since the dog had never bitten anyone before. My husband said he let me go and they backed off because he tasted the concentrated evil coming out of me. It went from wagging tails and wanting attention to sneaking up behind me and biting me 15 minutes later. Not even close to their yard, walking on the other side of the road. No, I wouldn't have trusted those dogs either. But at the same time, I damn sure wouldn't have even gone into that backyard. A false alarm can be handled by a phone call to the homeowner and a simple knock on the front door by an officer. No reason for them to even go to the back yard.
I don't want to shoot a dog... but I honestly can't afford a hospital visit because somebody has a sweet wonderful dog that they let roam lose that also decides to bite me. I don't let a strange dog come close to me anymore, regardless of breed. The most vicious dog we've ever had to deal with was a neighbors schnauzer. It tried to guard our yard... from us. Tried to keep us from getting in our own cars. It got the pellet gun until it quit coming close to our house.
I worry about my own dogs in this situation. Our pyr is scary. I usually always go to the backyard through the backdoor. One day my husband went to come through the gate, it's a privacy fence so she can't see. She heard that gate and she was on it. Running and growling, she was going through that gate to get whoever it was until she saw it was my husband. We put a lock on it because I don't want her getting shot, or get sued for her biting someone trying to come in our yard even though there are beware of dog signs everywhere, just for doing her job and guarding the yard from anything that doesn't belong.
I don't want to shoot a dog... but I honestly can't afford a hospital visit because somebody has a sweet wonderful dog that they let roam lose that also decides to bite me. I don't let a strange dog come close to me anymore, regardless of breed. The most vicious dog we've ever had to deal with was a neighbors schnauzer. It tried to guard our yard... from us. Tried to keep us from getting in our own cars. It got the pellet gun until it quit coming close to our house.
I worry about my own dogs in this situation. Our pyr is scary. I usually always go to the backyard through the backdoor. One day my husband went to come through the gate, it's a privacy fence so she can't see. She heard that gate and she was on it. Running and growling, she was going through that gate to get whoever it was until she saw it was my husband. We put a lock on it because I don't want her getting shot, or get sued for her biting someone trying to come in our yard even though there are beware of dog signs everywhere, just for doing her job and guarding the yard from anything that doesn't belong.
