I Pissed Off a Dog Owner Today
My grandchildren and the other kids in the neighborhood were playing in our front yard. A pit bull puppy came running up to them and they were scared and ran. I went out side and attempted to chase the dog out of our yard. The owner, a new neighbor, came nonchalantly down the street to get her dog. She hollered at me for trying to get her dog out of our yard.
I hollered back that she should keep her dog out of my yard. She made some remark about the “damn children”. That really pissed me off.
I’ve spent years dealing with pit bull owning neighbors. After about seven years of their dogs trying to attack us in our yard, and three different pit bulls, they finally gave up on owning free range pit bulls. I love dogs and I love pit bulls, but unfortunately dogs adopt the personalities of their owners. Lots of mean idiots own pit bulls.
My son was attacked by a pit bull at the park back when he was 2. It was a week before we knew if there was any permanent damage to his eyeball or socket because it was swollen shut and stuck out probably 3 inches further than normal. The dog picked him up by the face and shook him. Luck would have it the dog dropped him after the first shake. I dislike people who don’t keep their dogs under control. The city killed it, can’t say it hurts my feelings at all.
Personally, I would report it. It might make them not be so careless next time.
Report them!!! Not just for all the children and adults sake but for the pit! people irresponsible like that should never have a pit! She should have apologized and reassure you they where taking steps to not let him out again unsupervised!
Your new neighbor sounds very insensitive to say the least.
At least you did not have neighbors yell the following at you for walking your dog on the sidewalk…
1) Get out of mine yard! You are making my dogs bark.
2) Get out of my yard, you thief!
3) Don’t come in my yard any more. You are scarring (spell wrong?) all my cats.
4) Or having much older guys hit on you.
John, as a dog owner. I see both sides of the fences when owning a pet. It drives me nuts to have neighbors yell at for walking on the side walk with my dog. It also makes me upset it when their pets are either running the neighbor and/or leaving nasty surprises in my yard. If any thing, I am starting to learn to take it with a grain of salt.
If anything, I hope you will have the morale manners to call the pound if the dog and owner gets out of handle instead of hurting or killing the pet. About three years ago, I had a neighbor kill my father’s dog. We have no idea how the neighbor is either…
I had an experience a couple weeks ago where a full-grown pit bull came charging at me aggressively while I was taking the trash out to our street’s communal dumpster.
It took all the courage I had to hold my ground and cheerfully greet the charging beast with a “WHOOSE A SWEET PUPPY?!?!?”
I understand why the kids ran. Scary dogs.
what? no leash laws in your State, John?
A pitbull type of dog entered my yard a few years and began attempting to breed some of our newly acquired baby females that we hadn’t had a chance to spay yet. Day after day we chased it off the property, but it immediately returned, putting livestock and animals into danger. Then we learned the neighbors were breeding it to whatever dogs they obtained and they had quite a few. Mutts were running around everywhere, that they could not find homes for. Finally I brought Mr Wandering Casanova into the house and did the neighborly thing. One of us turned him over, spread his legs and I helped the neighbor neuter their dog by applying a steer band neatly to its balls. It ran off happy as a lark, but it never came back.
*a few years ago