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[quote=Anonymous]I suspect my dogs were shot with a BB gun over the weekend. They were in my fenced backyard (1/2 acre lot), I was out with them but had my back turned to walk back inside.  All of the sudden my beagle yelps and lies down cowering.  I thought maybe she had stepped on a sharp stick or something, I searched her paws, legs and body but didn’t find anything.  She recovered after about 30 minutes and was a little skittish but mostly back to normal. A couple hours later I notice a small gouge on my lab’s leg.  Could be from anything – he does run around a lot and could have nicked it on our stone wall or one of the bushes.  At bedtime, I notice dried blood on the inside of my beagle’s ear (like on the inside of the floppy ear), and it appears that something punctured her floppy ear with just a tiny entry on the outer side.  I can’t believe I didn’t check her ear when she yelped, but I thought it must have been something she stepped on. This gets me thinking… odd that both are hurt, and there’s nothing in the backyard that would puncture her ear like that. 
We are on a corner lot, and the dogs could have only been hit by neighbors behind us, or across the street from the side of our house. The house behind us is a lawyer couple with a young adult son, roughly 21-23 years old, but we don’t know them. Across the street from the backyard are two families – one with a two high schoolers (10th, 11th), and one with a middle school (8th) and high schooler (11th). We know these families, our kids are roughly the same age.  We suspect it could be the 8th grader – no real evidence expect he’s a bit of a punk (example - slapped the Halloween candy bowl out of my husband’s hands when he was in 6th grade, plays street hockey in front of our house which was fine when they were little but an 8th grader swinging a hockey stick by our cars is concerning, so we asked them to stop playing in front of our house).  I can’t imagine anyone else would be walking around the neighborhood and shooting dogs.  We have a camera in the back, but it didn’t catch anything as there are several trees along our fenceline.  We are going to add another camera to give us better angles.
I sent a text to both families that we know, telling them what happened and asked them to watch out for their dogs as well – no accusation at all, just played dumb and said to keep an eye out.
My kids are freaked out and don’t want our dogs to be outside much.  I understand their concern and share it, but its crappy to feel like our dogs are not safe in our own backyard.
FWIW, my dogs don’t spend hours outside barking – they are usually only out there for 5-10 minutes at a time, and only bark briefly when a neighbor passes, like an alert bark and then they stop. The neighbor behind us has huskies that are out on their enclosed deck ALL THE TIME and bark for hours, including at night.
What would you do?  We don’t have any proof, and are merely guessing they were shot based on the puncture to my beagle’s ear. We looked for BBs but did not find any.[/quote]

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