How to Handle Neighbors Dogs

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Where did you get your J.D.? You are simply wrong. This isn’t someone’s lawnmower, it is a clear and present danger to children, analogous to an escaped zoo lion in my yard. I have the legal right to use lethal force to protect my children.

DEAD, and legal. Moreover, taking the chance that my own children may be maimed or killed is worth ANYTHING to avoid, including any so-called legal quagmire.

So you’d pay a lawyer 300 dollars an hour in response to a notice letter rather than buy three chains for the dogs?

Talk about what is cheaper.

. . . and again, fencing is not a good solution.
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I don’t need a JD to know firearms laws and what constitutes a good shoot. Even the USAF police academy taught me that. Living next to a few deputies and asking about weapons laws where I lived didn’t do me any harm either.

Fencing is the best solution.

And yeah, I’d pay a lawyer $300 to send the sender a letter telling them not to threaten my personal property. Easy stuff. You don’t need a retainer for that.
 
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I didn’t ask on their page. I PMd them. They say on there to PM with any questions or concerns.
 
How on top of things is your HOA? It could be that if the HOA flexes their muscles at all, sympathy for your children would cause them to leave the fence.
 
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I already took pictures of their dog in our yard. I don’t care if other people are “frustrated”. I care if my kids are safe. Their dog didn’t sneak out the back door and waltz around the cul-de-sac. It jumped the fence into MY fenced yard.
 
Seriously?

Keeping them off your property isn’t the answer? Sure it is. I’ve just eliminated the problem and de-escalated the situation. It’s not worth it getting any more out of hand. I’ve installed privacy fencing in four houses. Zero issues.

The only reason we’re living on base here is property is stupid expensive and artificially inflated. Otherwise I’d likely be installing my fifth round.

LOL, no, I don’t, actually. I’d think twice about hiring a lawyer that told me shooting a dog sitting in my yard not bothering anyone was a good shoot. Federal law enforcement training tells me otherwise.
 
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I actually agree. If I’m actually able to put up a wooden fence, it would protect my kids in my backyard. It wouldn’t protect them when I’m putting them in the car. It wouldn’t protect them when they’re waiting for the school bus in front of my house. The problem isn’t that the dog can get in to my yard as much as the dog can get out of their yard.
 
Well, no. It’s only come into the yard once and I don’t want it to ever come into the yard ever again.
 
So saying “if it does it again, I’ll shoot it” isn’t a threat?
 
Put a strand of barbeire or electric fence on your side just a bit higher than the fence itself. When Fido puts his nose on that he won’t do it again.

I’ll never understand people’s love of pit bulls.
 
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actually set a bat by the back door in case it comes into the yard while my kids are out there,
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I don’t know if a better febce will be effective or not, but I thought I should say that a bat will do absolutely nothing to a pit bull. If you can’t get a gun, I suggest getting a can of bear spray if that’s legal where you live. It may not stop it should it charge, but it will blind it. I think it’s worth keeping around until you can find some permanent solution.
 
I told them to come get their animal out of my yard and that I’m concerned that my children aren’t safe playing in their own yard. He said he “understood”. But I still see dogs and no tethers. The wife blamed the husband for not “checking the fence over there.” I think she was under the notion that the dog dug under the fence. I suspect this was a problem at their previous residence as well.
 
We don’t really have a “dog warden”. We have police officers and they come and may write a citation. There’s a recent story about a neighbor who was bitten by their neighbor’s dog. It turns out the guy had reported the dog at large five times, but nothing was done. Then the dog got put down because it bit someone. The owners were on the news crying about their poor dog and how this neighbor must have provoked the dog.
 
No, it is notice of what consequences will follow it they fail to remedy a problem within their control and which is their responsibility. (some say it is only a “threat” if you don’t intend to follow through - here I would absolutely follow through - they have been given notice to take appropriate action)
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It’s a threat to destroy property with violence.

A fence eliminates the issue entirely without the potential for starting problems, inciting a “war of words”, or potentially involving law enforcement. I’ll take a quiet life any day of the week. Start bringing out bats, guns, and other tools and you escalate the situation. Put up the fence and move on.
 
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