Dog Bite Law

boredpuppy08

I probably deserve the troll comment, I feel like one.

No, I don't think you do. Sorry about that. It's just your original post was worded so weirdly.

It sounds like you've got a very serious problems with your neighbors and I really feel for you. If I could just suggest something though - can you set up a webcam or even more than one? You could have it so that it records to your PC and so you'd have evidence of any wrongdoing going on. It'd might be just enough to put a stop to all of the crazy behavior directed at you and your family. It's worth considering and not that expensive.

Angelique

Speechless...Whatever your family decides, please don't get anymore dogs, ever.

Wow, that's not very nice.  Maybe they shouldn't get any other dogs as long as they live next door to idiots, but never?  It sounds as if boredpuppy and her family have admitted what they could have done better and they are working with their dogs.  They cannot control the neighbors (people or dog) and that is essentially the crux of the problem.

Boredpuppy, I am sorry for what you have been dealing with.  You've made a great effort.  I know you'll do what you feel is best for all and we will support you.  And yes, you can ask the vet to sedate the dogs before euthanization, if it comes to that.

Take care.  (((Hugs)))

 boredpuppy! i feel for you so much!!! you have no idea! i am currently dealing with dog aggression myself. i know how horrible it is. honestly though you are not like me, in that you are alone. you have  whole family. i would give this a shot. VERY SAFELY!!!! as in, take the dogs on leash FOR EVEYTHING!..

look! i understand. this is hard for you guys, but there is folks like us, that live in apartments. we take our dogs out on leash for EVERYTHING!

i DO understand how difficult things are with an aggressive dog! really i do! i am dealing with that myself! but i think, you owe it to your dogs to give this a shot. you arent alone in trying to make this work, so i think you do have a shot! 

please PM me, if you need to talk about this! i would NEVER judge you! i know how hard it is!!!!!! but please, at least give it a shot from all angles... with a bit of efford, i think you MIGHT be able to work around this!

but really, i know what you are going through... i KNOW these decisions arent easy ever. just trying to give you another perspective on this.... so seriously... PM me ANYTIME!!!

Thanks for the support everyone, it's really appreciated. I'm sorry about the first post it was worded wierd I went back and edited it before publishing and didn't realise how it came out at first.

My parents were wary about it but I called the insurance company they use and just requested a copy of the rules and ron2 was right, though there's no provision for what breeds a person can and can't have. I also called a local lawyer because one thing was really bothering me one phone call was almost $100 but well worth it. I thought there was a chance that even having an agressive dog could be illegal, regardless of what it did or didn't do, he cleared that up the actual city law is worded:

Barking or Viscious Dogs:

A. No person shall own, keep or harbor, within the City, any dog that by loud and frequent or habitual barking, yelping or howling is an annoyance to the peace of the neighborhood.

B. No person shall keep or harbor a fierce, vicious or dangerous dog or other animal without being caged in a manner not to pose a danger to any inhabitant of the City.

So it's not a crime just to have the dogs, so long as they're securely confined. As I said, a padlock dissappeared off our gate and we should have called the cops and filed a report but we didn't, we put a new one on today and took pictures with time/date if that dissappears we will next time.

Went and bought muzzles for the four dogs that are freaking out, they're being crated in separate rooms and muzzled at all times when out of their crates and I bought and attached plexiglass to the gates so no more chewing through them. Hopefully bad weather will force a lul in this drama for a while until we can get a camera up - that's a really great idea.

My wierd friend proposed a solution which was to wait till next time the dogs are fighting with the neighbors dog and mace everyone and everything in a 6ft area, then call the police and the scent would be concentrated in the area, but it could be windy and I don't want to hurt anybody so I was thinking of something better: Make tempre paint ballons, that paint that little kids use to finger paint and bomb the dogs including the neighbors.... the splatter only on our fence and ground and her dog and no where else would be a dead giveaway that the dog and possibly the neighbor was actually on our property. Might be effective until we can get video.

That doesn't really solve the part about the dogs being set so far back, or that they've already caused one another a lot of pain, nor the stress they'll live with until we can possibly get things settled again.

We bought two flood lights for the back yard, one pointing towards our house so as not to distrub the other people around us set on a pole, and one motion activated one on the house, took down the curtains in my bathroom and set, in plain view an old VHS video camera on a tripod, first few days we put a tape in, now we haven't bothered - not a single incident since with the neighbors. Well worth the work and thank you very much for the tip.

The dogs are starting to calm down a little.

boredpuppy08

in plain view an old VHS video camera on a tripod, first few days we put a tape in, now we haven't bothered - not a single incident since with the neighbors. Well worth the work and thank you very much for the tip.

I'm glad it's helped. We were having neighbor problems also and DH installed video cameras around our house and it came to a complete end. Some people behave better when they know they're being watched