Neighbors dog came over the fence and came after me
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Anonymous
Why not check for ear mites, too? Shouldn't be a problem. Op I hope you have called animal control by now. |
Anonymous
No it's not. Used for lots of livestock including horses. They learn. |
Anonymous
The so-called “troll” has it right. OP needs to look in the mirror. Just as parents are held to a higher standard than children, so too all of us humans must be held to a higher standard than dogs. OP’s fear communicates aggression to the neighbor’s dog, and it responds in kind. Here in Arlington the Animal Welfare League contracts with the County to provide so-called animal control services. But since AWLA answers to the pet-owner community, it always engages first in mediation before sanctioning the dog as a final resort. In mediation the dog owners can respond to hysterical anti-dog people in a supportive and understanding arena. The dog is truly innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It may mean occasional fence-hopping and biting and mauling occur, but most of the time things work out for the best. |
Anonymous
You didn't say to your dog what the PP said, and you know it. So yes, that makes you abusive, because you're a liar, and liars abuse the truth. |
Anonymous
OP here. This is what really concerns me. I have a daughter who is very small for her age. When we were out for a walk in mid-March, the neighbor was walking the dog and I could see her eyeing my daughter and began to stand between them. The neighbor was talking about how the dog just hadn’t been “properly socialized because of Covid.” I told her I’d send her contact info for a dog behaviorist I has employed before. I sent it but I don’t think she’s contacted him or anyone else. My daughter is scared to walk out the kitchen door and get right into the car because the dog is constantly watching and barking at us in our kitchen. It can see us through the glass doors. My daughter repeats “don’t be scared, don’t be scared” to herself over and over. I texted my neighbor as far back as January that her dog looked like it was going to get over the fence any day. A few weeks later she asked if she could try “introducing” me and the dog. I held out my hand for the dog to sniff and she snapped at my hand. I told the neighbor I was not doing that. And we have kept to ourselves and just ignored the dog. The dog has remained fixated on us. When the dog got over the fence the other day, I tried talking to the neighbor and her husband about how very close the dog came to biting me. I asked them to seriously consider keeping this dog in a neighborhood with so many young children including their own. I was shut down and told it was their “decision as a family to work with the dog.” I think they are plum crazy. I told them they should seriously consider that the dog is a liability to their family. They were very defensive so I asked them to take a couple of days to really think on this. I told them if the situation were reversed, it would not be a difficult decision for me to rehome the dog. Today the husband started building the fence. My husband doesn’t want me to make a report to animal control because he doesn’t want to escalate the tension. My husband and I aren’t sure it would do any good anyway. This isn’t the DMV and the city government is definitely lacking. Knowing me, I’m probably going to call AC anyway. As far as I’m concerned, the relationship with the neighbors is toast. |
Anonymous
| OP again. I’ve been on my city’s Reddit. Tons of posts about loose dogs repeatedly chasing kids and other dogs. And animal control does very little even if they respond. Seems like until a dog manages to bite someone, it’s ignored. |
Anonymous
| I contacted animal control and sent them screenshots of my conversations with the neighbor about their dog. |
Anonymous
Good luck! I hope it works out for you. That incident seemed scary. |
Anonymous
| OP I do dog rescue. Zero tolerance for this. Dangerous dogs give all dogs a bad rep. Glad you are taking decisive action. |
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Anonymous
Leaping a fence to run at a human, snarling, is aggressive. Not every aggressive dog is a killer. The dog may not have intended to maul OP, but its behavior is definitely aggressive. |
Anonymous
The things you mention are irrelevant. Cruel is cruel whether I visit zoos or eat meat. You don't have to be "pure" to call something out. I also think choke chains and e-collars are cruel. |
Anonymous
Dog trainer here. This myth needs to die. No, dog aggression is NOT caused by people being afraid. I've seen OP's scenario happen many times before. People get a dog, throw it in the backyard, and don't socialize it (COVID is not an excuse, I socialized MANY dogs during COVID). The dog develops something called "barrier aggression" or "barrier frustration", where they can't get to something due to the fence and they react out of frustration. Over time this escalates into full-blown aggressive behavior. Half of the houses in my neighborhood have dogs like this, you go on a walk and dogs are throwing themselves at fences, snarling, barking, if there's 2 dogs often they'll start attacking each other. People with these dogs need to either keep their dogs inside and get training (which they won't do, because let's be honest, if they couldn't be bothered to socialize their dog, they're not going to train it) or surrender it. Throwing a dog in a backyard with no social outlets is CRUEL. Dogs are not humans, they are considered property and do not have the right of innocent until proven guilty. Mauling is unacceptable. Children being scared to go in their own backyard and getting killed is unacceptable. It drives me absolutely crazy that so many people (and rescues are often the worst offenders) think that dangerous dogs can live alongside humans with no problems. If an animal is a threat to humans, it needs to be exterminated. If a bear or coyote or mountain lion was charging people in their backyards, it would be euthanized. The so-called "pro-dog" people are insane. I've seen dogs where they were so aggressive they put their owners in the hospital, and they still refused to take any action, thinking that either being loving or being "alpha" will fix the problem. It won't. |
Anonymous
I'm vegetarian and have my own chickens for eggs. No animals are tortured or killed because of me. Is it "cruel" for me to use hot wire to protect my hens from neighborhood dogs that escape? Or would it be less cruel for me to let them die? Or should O just buy factory farmed eggs from the store? Examine yourself before calling out others. Hot wire is NOTHING compared to the cruelty that happens due to your need to eat food. |
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