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Anonymous wrote:Do you have an HOA?

Suggest going thru HOA to express your concerns. If not, yes, immediately put your concerns in writing - especially detail the dog growling-then deliver letter to the family in person. I’d begin the conversation with, “this is a very awkward thing to mention and I do y want it to harm our neighborly relationship, but I have some serious concerns about your new dog. I’ve had to put it in writing.”

My then preschool son was knocked over and attacked by a neighbors’ off leash dog that had wandered into our front yard. I was pregnant, and inside the door putting on my shoes and getting ready to walk to the school bus stop when I heard my son scream - it happened that fast! The dog was running away but I so wish I could have either been witness to the attack and intervened and or killed the dog. Horrific experience and this was a small spaniel, older family dog. My son had 15 stitches on his face and lip. Absolutely brutal.

Long story, but now that I think of it, get a few other neighbors on your side. This dog must never be allowed off leash, must be walked in a short leash (and possibly muzzled) and must always be supervised (never allowed to be at large either not even accidentally) and never allowed to be behind an “electric fence.”

If you brought this over to me it would harm our 'relationship' This dog is a living being and allowed to show discomfort ( growl) If the dog had bitten than sure you would have a fair argument. Obviously your experience pp was a horrible one but, op's situation is not the same

How many pitties do you have?? ❤️

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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.

Clowny, I've been training dogs for decades. While a growl is a last-resort communication, it's never the first signal, and only necessary when the human responsible for the animal doesn't know what they're doing. Well-trained dogs don't growl at people, largely because their well-educate handlers never put them in situations where the dog feels compelled to growl. Pain and resource guarding also have primary and secondary signals, long before it gets to growling.

A growling animal is either in truly dire circumstances or poorly trained/handled. Period.

I'll believe my own vet and my own dog trainer over some bozo on the internet. But thanks anyway.

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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!

My neighbor was attacked by a pit bull being walked by a young woman on a leash when she was walking around the neighborhood with her baby. The neighbor’s baby started crying and the dog bolted across the street and went for the baby. The young woman was horrified but could not hang onto the leash because the dog was so strong and took her by surprise. My neighbor lifted her baby up and managed to keep it from the dog but was badly mauled on her arms and legs. Fortunately, a retired military officer lived at the house and shot the dog.

That's a sad story, but I don't get what it has to do with the OP. Are you suggesting she go to her neighbor and share this story?

It's probably just the anti-pit OP sockpuppeting to boost the "All pits are evil" level of the thread.

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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.

Clowny, I've been training dogs for decades. While a growl is a last-resort communication, it's never the first signal, and only necessary when the human responsible for the animal doesn't know what they're doing. Well-trained dogs don't growl at people, largely because their well-educate handlers never put them in situations where the dog feels compelled to growl. Pain and resource guarding also have primary and secondary signals, long before it gets to growling.

A growling animal is either in truly dire circumstances or poorly trained/handled. Period.

I'll believe my own vet and my own dog trainer over some bozo on the internet. But thanks anyway.

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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.

Clowny, I've been training dogs for decades. While a growl is a last-resort communication, it's never the first signal, and only necessary when the human responsible for the animal doesn't know what they're doing. Well-trained dogs don't growl at people, largely because their well-educate handlers never put them in situations where the dog feels compelled to growl. Pain and resource guarding also have primary and secondary signals, long before it gets to growling.

A growling animal is either in truly dire circumstances or poorly trained/handled. Period.

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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!

My neighbor was attacked by a pit bull being walked by a young woman on a leash when she was walking around the neighborhood with her baby. The neighbor’s baby started crying and the dog bolted across the street and went for the baby. The young woman was horrified but could not hang onto the leash because the dog was so strong and took her by surprise. My neighbor lifted her baby up and managed to keep it from the dog but was badly mauled on her arms and legs. Fortunately, a retired military officer lived at the house and shot the dog.

That's a sad story, but I don't get what it has to do with the OP. Are you suggesting she go to her neighbor and share this story?

The point is that a dog can attack someone not in their own yard because it can run!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I can assure everyone that I did not aggrandize or exaggerate anything -- I simply relayed what happened. I did not assign any intent to the dog's behavior.

I think I'll have a family talk with the kids tonight. Will instruct them not to approach or play with the dog if it's being taken for a walk in the neighborhood, and not to invite the dog into our yard. I'll tell them that if a teenager is walking the dog, my kids should move toward the door until the dog has passed by. I'll ensure they know not to run around the dog. And I'll instruct them to cover their faces and necks if attacked.

There's definitely a risk that any dog could bite. However, the damage that this dog could do is extreme, with its massive jaw strength and bulldog instincts. Whereas a Yorkie might bite and run away, a pitbull tends to behave very persistently in wanting to bite, clamp, and rip at their prey, and can be extremely difficult to dislodge.

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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!

My neighbor was attacked by a pit bull being walked by a young woman on a leash when she was walking around the neighborhood with her baby. The neighbor’s baby started crying and the dog bolted across the street and went for the baby. The young woman was horrified but could not hang onto the leash because the dog was so strong and took her by surprise. My neighbor lifted her baby up and managed to keep it from the dog but was badly mauled on her arms and legs. Fortunately, a retired military officer lived at the house and shot the dog.

That's a sad story, but I don't get what it has to do with the OP. Are you suggesting she go to her neighbor and share this story?

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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!

My neighbor was attacked by a pit bull being walked by a young woman on a leash when she was walking around the neighborhood with her baby. The neighbor’s baby started crying and the dog bolted across the street and went for the baby. The young woman was horrified but could not hang onto the leash because the dog was so strong and took her by surprise. My neighbor lifted her baby up and managed to keep it from the dog but was badly mauled on her arms and legs. Fortunately, a retired military officer lived at the house and shot the dog.

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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!

I wonder if much of the OP is exaggerated. Pits are not 80lb dogs unless they are extremely overweight.

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Anonymous wrote:My ex dogsat someone's 'sweet' pit. The dog went crazy when it saw our cat. Imagine if it had lost it on a person. We had no idea we brought a killer into our home. I had never seen the animal. I don't think they are allowed in the old country.
I grew up on a farm and have seen dogs attack other animals, but nothing like a pit (more like a bear attack). Just hope it loses its top on an animal rather than a person.

I’m confuse. Went crazy meaning attacked or barked?

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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!

My neighbor was attacked by a pit bull being walked by a young woman on a leash when she was walking around the neighborhood with her baby. The neighbor’s baby started crying and the dog bolted across the street and went for the baby. The young woman was horrified but could not hang onto the leash because the dog was so strong and took her by surprise. My neighbor lifted her baby up and managed to keep it from the dog but was badly mauled on her arms and legs. Fortunately, a retired military officer lived at the house and shot the dog.

That's a sad story, but I don't get what it has to do with the OP. Are you suggesting she go to her neighbor and share this story?