Garden shared access and dogs.

madvixen

Just read your posts to the OH (who happens to be a policeman) and he suggests having a work with your local police. In his words, "that's very dodgy".
Hope those dogs are ok

meames_2

I have just spoken to the man next door, he just went into the garden. All the dogs were out. I told him I was a bit worried about security but made out it was more to do with my dog perhaps barking at them and I disturb them when I go in the garden. He has agreed to get a gravel board and raise the height of the fence panel by the step and to perhaps get some sort of gate for his side, for his benefit. I mentioned that they have been barking all night and i was worried about the staffie who has been crying in the shed. He says its because the staffie messes in the house, the dog was given to him by someone who didn't want it. He has tried to train it by giving it a smack and rubbing his nose in it but it hasn't worked.

He assures me they are all soft and from what I have seen they are. He has given me his phone number in case there are any problems. It seems like he really lives at his girlfriends and not living here. Perhaps there is nothing wrong, although to me to leave your dogs for what would be nearly 24 hours is wrong. He has just taken them for a walk. I'll just keep an eye open on when he walks them over the next week or so.. I still think the furniture in front of doors is dodgy though!

Thanks for all your advice so far. I haven't ruled out a quick chat with the police though.

zaksmum

meames wrote: »

I have just spoken to the man next door, he just went into the garden. All the dogs were out. I told him I was a bit worried about security but made out it was more to do with my dog perhaps barking at them and I disturb them when I go in the garden. He has agreed to get a gravel board and raise the height of the fence panel by the step and to perhaps get some sort of gate for his side, for his benefit. I mentioned that they have been barking all night and i was worried about the staffie who has been crying in the shed. He says its because the staffie messes in the house, the dog was given to him by someone who didn't want it. He has tried to train it by giving it a smack and rubbing his nose in it but it hasn't worked.

He assures me they are all soft and from what I have seen they are. He has given me his phone number in case there are any problems. It seems like he really lives at his girlfriends and not living here. Perhaps there is nothing wrong, although to me to leave your dogs for what would be nearly 24 hours is wrong. He has just taken them for a walk. I'll just keep an eye open on when he walks them over the next week or so.. I still think the furniture in front of doors is dodgy though!

Thanks for all your advice so far. I haven't ruled out a quick chat with the police though.

I'd still call the RSPCA. If he's hitting the dog and leaving it alone all that time he shouldn't be allowed to have dogs.

Anyway, who actually owns the house?

meames_2

I think the couple who moved in 6 years ago still own it. I'm on all those lists that tell you when the houses in your area sell and for how much, so I would have noticed my street name.

Fire_Fox

The behaviour of this man towards the staffie is most definitely against the Five Freedoms and probably classes as abuse - the smacking, rubbing his nose in poop and locking in a too warm shed for 24 hours. Please contact the RSPCA urgently: he can sign the dog over to them if he is not willing to train or socialise it. Dogs can die in a few hours, let alone a week.

Have you tried contacting the letting agent yet?

NewKittenHelp

I hope you gave him what for when he told you hit the dogs and pushed their faces into their excrement!

meames_2

Just a quick update.

Spoke to the Animal warden at the Local Authority - not interested unless it is a stray.

Spoke to RSPCA, they say as long as the dog is visitied once within 24 hours then that is acceptable. This satisfies leagal requirements. Keeping in a shed is fine too.

Will just keep an eye out.

krlyr

Did you speak to the local police? It may indirectly help the dogs, if something dodgy is going on.

Fire_Fox

meames wrote: »

Just a quick update.

Spoke to the Animal warden at the Local Authority - not interested unless it is a stray.

Spoke to RSPCA, they day as longas the dog is visitied once within 24 hours then that is acceptable.

Will just keep an eye out.

What is acceptable? To be hit, locked in a too warm shed (= too warm car), nose rubbed in poop? Ring again and mention the Five Freedoms. No it is nothing to do with the dog warden.

Have you spoken to the letting agent or the police?

meames_2

I explained the situation to a colleague who is in the specials. He is going to find out a bit more about what to do.