Off leash dog

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make a metal noise;

Wut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

So why haven't you talked to your neighbor? Last time it worked for 3 days. Then they started up again. This time, speak up again but be more firm. "I didn't mean for just a few days- I mean I do not want your dog running into my yard unleashed ever again because it's dangerous and it scratches my kids/ steals their food. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

That dog will get run over by the end of the summer most likely. Which is really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

So why haven't you talked to your neighbor? Last time it worked for 3 days. Then they started up again. This time, speak up again but be more firm. "I didn't mean for just a few days- I mean I do not want your dog running into my yard unleashed ever again because it's dangerous and it scratches my kids/ steals their food. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

I plan to this weekend. I wanted to see if i was way off base here or it is reasonable that a dog shouldn't run free around neighborhoods with no owner in sight. I wanted to clarify that i will call animal control if it happens again but didn't know if that was too harsh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

So why haven't you talked to your neighbor? Last time it worked for 3 days. Then they started up again. This time, speak up again but be more firm. "I didn't mean for just a few days- I mean I do not want your dog running into my yard unleashed ever again because it's dangerous and it scratches my kids/ steals their food. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

I plan to this weekend. I wanted to see if i was way off base here or it is reasonable that a dog shouldn't run free around neighborhoods with no owner in sight. I wanted to clarify that i will call animal control if it happens again but didn't know if that was too harsh.

I am the one who said I'd pepper spray it if it came running up to my kids after a "friendly" off leash dog attacked/ bit my 4 year old multiple times when he walked past it on the sidewalk. "Oh I can't believe this!! This has NEVER happened before!" Well, now nothing like that will ever happen again, because I have pepper spray. I don't think animal control is too harsh.

[Anonymous]

You are well within your right, OP. I agree with the call to animal control.

My ex did this and it drove me crazy. Twice I received a notice that the dog had been found, he was called in when just walking the neighborhood alone.

Everyone knew it was his dog. It also started bad behavior in the neighborhood — others got lazy. Poop wars galore.

Ex was lazy.

[Anonymous]

Your neighbors behavior is completely unacceptable. Call animal control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

So why haven't you talked to your neighbor? Last time it worked for 3 days. Then they started up again. This time, speak up again but be more firm. "I didn't mean for just a few days- I mean I do not want your dog running into my yard unleashed ever again because it's dangerous and it scratches my kids/ steals their food. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

Leave off the “I’m sorry.”

[Anonymous]

Give them another chance. Nicely explain that your kids are afraid of their dog and the kids play outside all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give them another chance. Nicely explain that your kids are afraid of their dog and the kids play outside all the time.

They’ve already had plenty of chances!!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, OP, been in the same situation and it sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re scared of a 20lb dog?

Seriously?

The little dogs are often the ones that bite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Listen, i LOVE dogs. Ours recently passed a couple of years ago and we will likely get another when the kids are a bit older.
However, i hate feeling like we can't be outside in teh front yard on riding toys as the dog is almost always out.
They must work from home now because before COVID the dog would come out in the evening and weekends. But now it is all hours of the day.

So why haven't you talked to your neighbor? Last time it worked for 3 days. Then they started up again. This time, speak up again but be more firm. "I didn't mean for just a few days- I mean I do not want your dog running into my yard unleashed ever again because it's dangerous and it scratches my kids/ steals their food. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear."

Leave off the “I’m sorry.”

Just call animal control. They will ship up when they have to pay the fine!

[Anonymous]

Knock on their door and tell them the next time their dog is in your yard, you will call animal control.

No apologies.

[Anonymous]

Call animal control. Tell them there is a stray dog roaming the neighborhood. They will come pick it up, hold it for a few days, then put it up for adoption when the owners don’t come looking for it. Problem solved.