How to Handle Neighbors Dogs

[Cruciferi]

You have five seconds to react. At this point it is not a pet. You are pinned. No going inside to fetch a weapon. Or to call the police … besides he IS the police.

Aaaand your point is? It’s attacking YOU and you’re free to defend yourself.
What’s your problem here?

 

[Cruciferi]

Are you advocating a preemptive strike before the attack occurs?

 

[MonteRCMS]

Aaaand your point is? It’s attacking YOU and you’re free to defend yourself.
What’s your problem here?

I’m in my driveway, not carrying a weapon.

Nice: I’m free to defend myself with a trash can.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Prior to this the dog had gotten out, but it was never officially documented, so the police viewed it as a first offense type situation. Document. Document. Document. My neighbor next door was told his only recourse was to get a lawyer and file a civil suit to sue for the cost of the chocolate lab. But we all know that doesn’t bring the poor dog back.

This. Finding the balance between being vigilant, reporting incidents but not being a nuisance can be a fine one.

 

[pensmama87]

Regardless of the stated ordinances, some municipalities are lenient about issuing variances if the result won’t be ugly. I know new fencing is expensive, but you should be able to consult code enforcement to ask, too, just to know.

 

[Cruciferi]

I’m in my driveway, not carrying a weapon.

Nice: I’m free to defend myself with a trash can.

You’re obviously suggesting striking the dog before he enters your property. Thus, your ill fated post.

Here’s my suggestion to you, carry Dog Spray or a gun.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Monte, I get it. I apologize for not seeing it from your perspective and I don’t mean to minimize it. You had multiple things working against you. I’d like to point out that the real problem here was the humans, the owners. If you did any of the things you have suggested her to those dogs I don’t think it would have worked out for you so well. Perhaps it is “word to the wise?”

 

[Pup7]

Read some of this and tell me again how great pit bulls are. http://blog.dogsbite.org

Do some research on how the GSD, the Doberman, and the Rottweilier were regarded at one time.

I’m an ex military working dog handler. I know what I’m talking about. For every vicious pitt/GSD/Rottie/insert whatever large breed/bully breed here, there are hundreds that are just fine.

Pitts are the current target. In ten years it will be something else.

I hold a different opinion of the breed in general than you do. I don’t tar all dogs or people with the same brush.

 

[Pup7]

Are you advocating a preemptive strike before the attack occurs?

For some reason a lot of people seem to think this is an okay move, that it’s legal, and that it won’t land you in court.

Let them stir their own troubles up.

 

[Pup7]

Malinois are starting to show up on banned lists. We were rejected by four homeowner’s insurance companies because we own a Malinois.

That actually isn’t the dog. That’s the idiot media hyping them up as aggressive (they’re actually not - there’s a huge difference in aggressive and protective, said the ex MWD handler) and people who don’t know a Mali needs a job, so to speak, and they have no idea why they’re called GSDs on crack.

They find out they have more dog than they have patience.

 

[rondirect]

We don’t have a HOA.

If you don’t have an HOA, chances are you are pretty much free to put up any type of fence you want. HOAs control that stuff. Just because you don’t see any in your neighborhood does not mean that you cannot install one especially if there is no HOA. However, instead of assuming, the next step is to go to your local county building department for answers for your subdivision TOMORROW!

 

[AlNg]

For some reason a lot of people seem to think this is an okay move, that it’s legal, and that it won’t land you in court.

I don’t care if it is legal or not. If a vicious attack killer dog starts to bite at me or at a child, I will fight back and kill the dog. My defense against the prosecution is that I was fearing for my life or the life of a child. I would ask the jury members what they would do when attacked by a vicious killer dog. I doubt that a jury of 12 would convict me of a crime since there is a common law of self-defense.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

What some have suggested upthread were a preemptive strikes or animal cruelty, even when there is no attack, no sign of aggression. But you and other before you are talking about fighting back against an aggressive dog. There’s at least two, maybe three or more scenarios that people are discussing and we aren’t on the same page. I doubt this is useful to the OP.

 

[Lara]

Well you inadvertently proved my point. Had I been driving down the road and noticed all the fire pits, off like a shot I’d go. lol!

Here’s what a fire pit says: I don’t give a fig if your kid has asthma, your grandfather has COPD, if you have to keep the windows closed on a hot day because I want my fire to go on for hours and hours.

I had one neighbour with a fire pit who actually left the fire burning for over 18 hours after he’d left his house. I doused it in water and called the fire department and he got a citation. He told me he was a social animal when his parties went on til 1 a.m… The animal part seemed about right.

 

[Allegra]

Nobody appreciates the smell, but does it smell bad enough to overcome the “predator instinct”?

 

[Cruciferi]

I’ll risk my life to test it!!!

 

[Allegra]

Honey, I don’t live in an apartment complex. My subdivision has nothing but single family dwellings and I live on a very large corner lot. My firepit smoke is not going to travel from my patio into anyone’s window and trigger anyone’s asthma anymore than pollen from my apple tree or grass when I mow the yard. If your kid is that sensitive then you probably should get an AC unit with a good filter and quit expecting the world to cater to you. Furthermore, no one uses a firepit on a “hot day”. That’s just stupid. You use a firepit on a cool to chilly day. And what the heck kind of fire pit runs for 18 hours without being attended and having new wood added? Unless it runs on gas, and then who cares? Are you telling me the smoke from someone else’s gas firepit is blowing in your window and causing asthma attacks? I officially call BS on this whole post.

 

[Dlee]

This worked for my sister - she had two aggressive pits behind her house,

 

[Holly3278]

I agree that going and euthanizing every single dog in existence that is a Pit Bull is barbaric. But if you simply spay and neuter each and every one of them so that way they can’t breed anymore Pit Bulls, there is nothing barbaric in that.

 

[Dlee]

It’s happened to us and my toddler. Fire pits now have to be permitted by our City and the neighbors have to sign off. So, I guess it’s not stupid. I also know a toddler who fell into a fire pit as the family sat around it. Freak accident. It’s so easy for something to go wrong, even when you’re doing what you should to protect your kids.