Advice needed - violent attack by neighbour's dog

capeverde

Thats fair enough mazza and I apologise if Ive come across uncaring on this thread. I just dont see why an animal should get the blame for a natural reaction. I was bought up on a farm with cows, dogs and horses and you understand through experience how to react. It seems as though there is no allowance on here for mistakes.

Take chez cape verde, we have two kids under 10 and whilst schooled in never leaving the door open, occasionally, the dog may run behind them onto the front garden. He's been done now, but in our last house we lived on a smallholding and the b itch from the neighbours farm used to come across the field to play. Normally we would lift him over the fence, but when she was on heat, he would clear a 5 foot wire fence in a heartbeat.

When the woman sent her kid out, who's to say she wasnt on thee loo or otherwise disposed? People jump to conclusions and if the dog had just come and attacked her its a different matter, but in this situation is it really fair to get the police involved and risk it being potentially put down?

mazza111

I honestly don't think they would have put the dog down for this. But they would have a note on the dog that it was a potential hazard.

I was watching a program on telly last night where a woman started laying into her ex boyfriend and her 2 staffies were repeatedly biting at his face. Now those 2 dogs weren't destroyed and she was allowed to keep them :eek:

So while I don't blame the dogs. It made me mad that she was allowed to keep them knowing that she had already set them on someone :eek:

And as I said, if this had been a one off incident, I would so och let it be, but it does sound like the dog is let to run loose a lot of them time. The other dogs were in their gardens minding their own business if u know wot i mean.

I had one that was a great escapologist, try an alsatian x collie going through a cat flap and he still managed it. We had thought ahead and contained the garden though. :rotfl:

Leif

capeverde wrote: »

Thats fair enough mazza and I apologise if Ive come across uncaring on this thread. I just dont see why an animal should get the blame for a natural reaction. I was bought up on a farm with cows, dogs and horses and you understand through experience how to react. It seems as though there is no allowance on here for mistakes.

Take chez cape verde, we have two kids under 10 and whilst schooled in never leaving the door open, occasionally, the dog may run behind them onto the front garden. He's been done now, but in our last house we lived on a smallholding and the b itch from the neighbours farm used to come across the field to play. Normally we would lift him over the fence, but when she was on heat, he would clear a 5 foot wire fence in a heartbeat.

When the woman sent her kid out, who's to say she wasnt on thee loo or otherwise disposed? People jump to conclusions and if the dog had just come and attacked her its a different matter, but in this situation is it really fair to get the police involved and risk it being potentially put down?

I'm not sure it was a natural reaction although I share the point about blaming the owner not the animal. Having never seen such behaviour from a dog, with two exceptions (a nasty police dog, probably ill treated, and a very nasty pet dog, ill treated no doubt) I'd say it was bad behaviour due to bad training, or more likely lack of training. The point about talking to the police - rather than making a formal complaint - is that they are not stupid, and should give sensible advice. The owner is clearly a cow, but having a copper knock on the door might well straighten her head out and make her realise she is responsible for the dog. How else will you knock sense into someone like that? Otherwise she will just bully the OP. The likelihood they would have it put down is probably zero, since the dog was picked up.

Oh yes, and if the police say "oh, another complaint about that dog", it is a serial offender and needs to be dealt with.