Replies to '03/21 More Annoying People'
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March 21, 2006, 2:35 pm PST
 Quote From: tweedle
I’ve lived in this lake side community for 6 years. The first three years were great. The neighbors (mostly summer people) and I got along great. Then the people across the street moved in. They act as if this is their private community and free run for their dogs. They would get back from their winter where ever and let the dogs run. I went over and asked them nicely to keep their dogs in their own yard. She gave me the deer in the head lights look as if I was speaking a foreign language or something. I tried to explain my son was terrified of big dog and that for the dog’s sake because a car could hit them they should be keep in their own yard.
That worked for about two weeks and she would get lazy and just open the door and let the dogs out again instead of going out with them and keeping them in the yard. I kept trying to get my boyfriend to go over and tell them to keep the dogs on their own property. He would not do it he just wanted to shoot the dogs. I went over again and asked them to keep the dogs on their own property or I will call the cops.
Well they called my bluff and I did, 4 times…they have been cited and still will not keep the dogs on their property. Up until this year, they would go south or something during the winter but this year they have been here all year. I have almost hit the dogs twice with my car when they ran out chasing it. It was frustrating but at least I only had to deal with it 6 months of the year then they would leave and all would be well again. Until this year, they did not leave. All year I have had to fight with them about the dogs.
My house is on the market now and moving out of the community. I told my real-estate agent I do not care who you sell the house to the worse the better as long as they have the money to pay for the house. I am so hoping she finds a stereotypical redneck family with 7 kids, grandma and grandpa and six pigs to move in the place. Paybacks are hell.
Next time, take them to animal control, or someplace where they have to pay each time to get them out of hock.
Sorry, I love dogs but it's not safe for ANYONE to have loose dogs running around--it's obviously not safe for the dogs and it's not safe for kids. It's gross when somebody else's dog poops in your yard, and I would be totally traumatized if I accidentally hit a dog with my car, even if it wasn't my fault. |
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March 21, 2006, 6:18 pm PST
Quote From: tweedle
I’ve lived in this lake side community for 6 years. The first three years were great. The neighbors (mostly summer people) and I got along great. Then the people across the street moved in. They act as if this is their private community and free run for their dogs. They would get back from their winter where ever and let the dogs run. I went over and asked them nicely to keep their dogs in their own yard. She gave me the deer in the head lights look as if I was speaking a foreign language or something. I tried to explain my son was terrified of big dog and that for the dog’s sake because a car could hit them they should be keep in their own yard.
That worked for about two weeks and she would get lazy and just open the door and let the dogs out again instead of going out with them and keeping them in the yard. I kept trying to get my boyfriend to go over and tell them to keep the dogs on their own property. He would not do it he just wanted to shoot the dogs. I went over again and asked them to keep the dogs on their own property or I will call the cops.
Well they called my bluff and I did, 4 times…they have been cited and still will not keep the dogs on their property. Up until this year, they would go south or something during the winter but this year they have been here all year. I have almost hit the dogs twice with my car when they ran out chasing it. It was frustrating but at least I only had to deal with it 6 months of the year then they would leave and all would be well again. Until this year, they did not leave. All year I have had to fight with them about the dogs.
My house is on the market now and moving out of the community. I told my real-estate agent I do not care who you sell the house to the worse the better as long as they have the money to pay for the house. I am so hoping she finds a stereotypical redneck family with 7 kids, grandma and grandpa and six pigs to move in the place. Paybacks are hell.
Most communities have leash laws nowadays so you might have more luck contacting animal control. Letting these dogs run loose is totally irresponsible and potentially dangerous. Last summer while walking my Rottweiler who is a formidable 125 pounds, two loose pit bulls charged out of nowhere and began to attack her. There was no way she could fend off two of them and she was on a leash. I didn't dare let her go, fearing they would chase her off and get her down. I began to whip the pits with the end of her leash and one turned on me. I can still see in slow motion his jaws clamp down on my thigh and I could feel the teeth sink into my skin. By the grace of God, someone drove by and they jumped out and began shouting and swinging a golf club. The pits called off the attack and disappeared into the brush. Without his intervention, I shudder to think how this attack might have ended.
To make a horrible story short, both my dog and I were severely bitten. Both of us required medical treatment. The expenses of her care were over $800. Thank goodness I had insurance for myself. We have both healed, but I will have ugly scars on my thigh for the rest of my life.
The point is that the owner of these dogs probably didn't even know where they were. I am sure that they ran back home as they looked too heathly to be strays. Animal control was never able to find them. The experience was so frightening, but what if I had been a child? Or an elderly person, or disabled?
I am a lifelong animal lover and own big dogs myself. I do not blame the dogs. It has changed my attitude towards taking my dog for a walk. It was six months before I could do it alone again and now I carry a gun when we go. I do not want to ever have to shoot anyone's pet, but I will never let this happen to me again. At least I still have my dog. Some months later the same type of attack happened to a man in our town and his Golden Retriever was killed by the other dogs. The man's calves were shredded. I don't know if it was the same dogs, but I don't think so as it was on the other side of town. This type of thing happens more than we might like to think. |
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