Neighbors just adopted an 80lb adult pitbull

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Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

DP. So no one can run around while this dog is walking by? Do you hear yourself?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

No. This is nonsense. Kids should be allowed to use their own yard without having to moderate their behavior because the neighbor's poorly-trained dog is out. The neighbor is 100% responsible for keeping their dog under control and in their own yard at all times unless specifically invited, regardless of what the kids next door may be doing.

Putting responsibility for the neighbors crappy dog on the kids next door is effing ridiculous. If you own a dog, you own full responsibility for the dog. Don't ever make someone else tell you your business. Damn.

+100, unbelievable that people can be this entitled with their pets. If economy really crashes we will by like India with the stray pandemic surplus dog packs roaming around.

[Anonymous]

I don't get why you'd need to talk to the owner at all, just don't invite the dog onto your property anymore. Tell your kids they are not to approach or play with the dog. There is a pit pull that lives two houses down from me. I have never been close enough for that dog to growl at me. A new neighbor just moved in directly across the street, and they have a pit. I will not be inviting that dog to my yard to meet my kids or any of that. Keep your dog off my property and we are good!

[Anonymous]

Get treats and be friendly to the dog so it will like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. You're suggesting that in order to be safe, OP's children will need to instantly stop running around when they're playing in their own yard whenever they spot the neighbor's dog? Months from now, in the heat and fun of the summer, they'll remember to do that? And do it before their squeals of joy and movement catch the dog's attention? You've got to be kidding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

Sigh. People like you are just so stupid. The dog GROWLED. He is expressing intense discomfort with his surroundings, and if the situation repeats itself, despite his attempts are telling the humans around him that he's uncomfortable, he might act to protect himself, or whatever else he thinks he should be doing. The situation is currently very fluid and highly volatile. Anything could happen.

Posters on here should not try to imprint morality on this dog, excuse him or attack him. That's not how dog psychology works. The dog will react in the way he tells you he will, out of long-standing habits he's developed. That's all. Take all judgment out of it.

You can judge the owners if they don't take adequate measures! OP has learned from this encounter. This is a potentially highly dangerous situation because at least some members of this dog's household are not reacting quickly and seriously enough to their dog's signals.

If only the majority of covid-era dog owners understood this. It's a DOG. Keep your feelings out of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. You're suggesting that in order to be safe, OP's children will need to instantly stop running around when they're playing in their own yard whenever they spot the neighbor's dog? Months from now, in the heat and fun of the summer, they'll remember to do that? And do it before their squeals of joy and movement catch the dog's attention? You've got to be kidding.

Exactly. And all of this so the crappy neighbors can have more dog than they can responsibly handle. Nah. This is rude AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why you'd need to talk to the owner at all, just don't invite the dog onto your property anymore. Tell your kids they are not to approach or play with the dog. There is a pit pull that lives two houses down from me. I have never been close enough for that dog to growl at me. A new neighbor just moved in directly across the street, and they have a pit. I will not be inviting that dog to my yard to meet my kids or any of that. Keep your dog off my property and we are good!

Get a fence. Dogs growl for all kinds or reasons. Ours has different growls to let us know what she wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a northern VA suburb with at least a dozen children on our block, most of which are elementary or pre-K. We've always gotten along great with all our neighbors. One of our neighbors however just adopted an adult pitbull, that's 5 years old and weighs upwards of 80 lbs. These neighbors are great people with two teenagers, but I don't think they have a lot of (if any) previous experience with dogs. They are very kind hearted, and my intuition tells me they probably went to the Fairfax County animal shelter and were persuaded to adopt this dog not understanding what they truly got themselves into.

The neighbors were letting their teenage daughter walk the pitbull the other day -- she doesn't weigh much more than the dog and was by no means in control of it. I was outside and our kids were playing in the front yard with the neighbors' kids. The teenage girl brought the dog into our yard because the kids wanted to see the new dog. I let the dog approach me as well, and when it got close, it emitted a deep growl at me, and walked around me. My elementary age kid who is on the small side at one point started running, and I could see that got the dog's attention -- I calmly asked my son to stop moving quickly as I did not want to risk triggering this dog's prey instinct.

I really can't understand how our intelligent and kind hearted neighbors decided to bring a dog like this into a family neighborhood -- this animal has the capability to maim or kill our children, and who knows how it was raised or what kinds of psychological issues it has. I can see other neighbors also nervous about it as well. What kind of advice should I give my children to try and keep them safe from this dog? Would you risk your relationship with the neighbors by talking to them about their choice of pets?

I could say the same about you; you seem intelligent; why on earth would you allow a dog that could main or kill your children into your yard where your children are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have no evidence that this dog is dangerous. All you can do is tell your children to completely ignore the dog and not run around when the dog is walking by. If you do this, the dog will not do anything to you or your kids.

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. You're suggesting that in order to be safe, OP's children will need to instantly stop running around when they're playing in their own yard whenever they spot the neighbor's dog? Months from now, in the heat and fun of the summer, they'll remember to do that? And do it before their squeals of joy and movement catch the dog's attention? You've got to be kidding.

I'm not the person you quoted but why would the kids need to stop running around their yard? OP should tell the neighbor teenagers that she does not want them bringing the dog into her yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another anti-pit post in the pets forum.

The shitposter made bait by alleging the dog is an 80-pound pit bull, but I don't want to be growled at by your 8 lb yorkie, either.

People who can't train their dogs shouldn't have dogs. No teenager has any business walking a recently-rehomed rescue. They're just not psychologically stable yet. New dogs should be kept to their own pack and property for a week, at least. There's plenty of new stimuli to explore in a new home environment. The first few weeks with any dog are NOT the time for meet-and-greets, and this is all the more true of rescues and rehomed dogs with possibly-unknown history.

Some of y'all shouldn't own dogs, because this stuff is basic dog-handling 101 and y'all still screw it up!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a northern VA suburb with at least a dozen children on our block, most of which are elementary or pre-K. We've always gotten along great with all our neighbors. One of our neighbors however just adopted an adult pitbull, that's 5 years old and weighs upwards of 80 lbs. These neighbors are great people with two teenagers, but I don't think they have a lot of (if any) previous experience with dogs. They are very kind hearted, and my intuition tells me they probably went to the Fairfax County animal shelter and were persuaded to adopt this dog not understanding what they truly got themselves into.

The neighbors were letting their teenage daughter walk the pitbull the other day -- she doesn't weigh much more than the dog and was by no means in control of it. I was outside and our kids were playing in the front yard with the neighbors' kids. The teenage girl brought the dog into our yard because the kids wanted to see the new dog. I let the dog approach me as well, and when it got close, it emitted a deep growl at me, and walked around me. My elementary age kid who is on the small side at one point started running, and I could see that got the dog's attention -- I calmly asked my son to stop moving quickly as I did not want to risk triggering this dog's prey instinct.

I really can't understand how our intelligent and kind hearted neighbors decided to bring a dog like this into a family neighborhood -- this animal has the capability to maim or kill our children, and who knows how it was raised or what kinds of psychological issues it has. I can see other neighbors also nervous about it as well. What kind of advice should I give my children to try and keep them safe from this dog? Would you risk your relationship with the neighbors by talking to them about their choice of pets?

I could say the same about you; you seem intelligent; why on earth would you allow a dog that could main or kill your children into your yard where your children are?

OP is an anti-pit troll with a made-up scenario, that's why. This happens weekly now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why you'd need to talk to the owner at all, just don't invite the dog onto your property anymore. Tell your kids they are not to approach or play with the dog. There is a pit pull that lives two houses down from me. I have never been close enough for that dog to growl at me. A new neighbor just moved in directly across the street, and they have a pit. I will not be inviting that dog to my yard to meet my kids or any of that. Keep your dog off my property and we are good!

Get a fence. Dogs growl for all kinds or reasons. Ours has different growls to let us know what she wants.

This is absolutely unhinged. If your dog has gone all the way to growling to communicate, it's because you missed the first eleven signals it gave your dumb ass.

[Anonymous]

My god you’re a busybody op. Sorry your idyllic privilege is shattered. Fence your backyard and unclench.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why you'd need to talk to the owner at all, just don't invite the dog onto your property anymore. Tell your kids they are not to approach or play with the dog. There is a pit pull that lives two houses down from me. I have never been close enough for that dog to growl at me. A new neighbor just moved in directly across the street, and they have a pit. I will not be inviting that dog to my yard to meet my kids or any of that. Keep your dog off my property and we are good!

Get a fence. Dogs growl for all kinds or reasons. Ours has different growls to let us know what she wants.

This is absolutely unhinged. If your dog has gone all the way to growling to communicate, it's because you missed the first eleven signals it gave your dumb ass.

I'm not the person you quoted but that poster is correct. There are many reasons dogs growl. My poodle growls when we play tug of war with him. He used to attention growl; (he would sit next to me and stare and growl). I trained him to stop growling at me, so now he just sits and gives me the death stare. lol A dog will also growl if he is in pain or resource guarding.