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| Thread ID: 139023 | 2015-02-25 07:35:00 | Neighbours bloody dog! | hueybot3000 (3646) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1395087 | 2015-02-25 19:15:00 | If you don't want to confront them or report them just yet, write an anonymous letter and post it. I'm sure you can figure out their address :) Explain to them that you'd prefer to avoid things getting heated but that letting their dog roam uncontrolled is not acceptable and if it continues animal control will be informed. A responsible dog owner might get annoyed but they'll take the threat seriously. An irresponsible one, well you'd end up reporting them anyway. I love dogs, have owned several, but I don't think it's ok to do this sort of thing. Dog owners never believe their own dog could be any danger to anyone but they are wrong. If someone's lovely friendly dog runs out on to the street and causes an accident, who's fault is that? If someone else's dog is a bit aggressive so they make sure to keep it on a lead and avoid others while walking it and fluffy runs up to play and gets into a fight - who's fault is that. These are both examples I've personally witnessed with hapless owners refusing to accept any blame. If you own a dog you keep it on your property or on a leash, I don't care how friendly it is. If it's well trained then sure let it run in designated exercise parks or out in the country - but while you watch and are ready to respond if there's trouble. The only place it's acceptable to allow a dog to roam uncontrolled is within the bounds of a securely fenced area. Also if you are not able to step in a stop a dog fight with the rotweiler down the street keep your bloody dog away from it, it takes 2 dogs for a dogfight not 1. Turned into a rant lol. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1395088 | 2015-02-25 21:41:00 | A dog owner who lets his dog run loose isnt going to give a rats arse what anyone else thinks. Call animal control. Take some photos on your phone. Make a note of time & days the dog is being a nuisence or.... say the dog was menacing you and is overly aggressive, that should get things sorted quickly . If its a nice doggy, maybee put up with some inconvenience. Locally we have birds ripping open rubbish bags in the morning . I have more 'issues' with locals thinking they can put anything out by the road & assuming someone will eventually collect/move it . :-) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1395089 | 2015-02-26 06:05:00 | Thanks for the suggestions and advice. I think I will start documenting it via phone pics and once I have a few send them to animal control. It is tough because I don't believe the dog is mistreated, I don't know the breed but it's a big dog but also friendly and doesn't show any signs of aggression. |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1395090 | 2015-02-26 08:33:00 | Lighten up you lot, I bet if I followed you or your kids around all day taking photos I would catch you doing something wrong. Chances are I would get arrested too I suppose. My neighbours drove me spare by encouraging my dog to visit them and it's pretty hard to keep gates shut all the time. Maybe this dog is also visiting another of your neighbours. Why don't you try talking to the owner, they may not know about the rubbish bin issue. Not all owners are thugs, calm down!! Suggest they watch the dog more closely on rubbish day. |
Ofthesea (14129) | ||
| 1395091 | 2015-02-26 09:09:00 | The main issue here is poor dog ownership. Anyone who owns a dog has a responsibility to ensure they have a properly fenced section such that the dog cannot get out, and that visitors can go through a front gate and to the front door without encountering the dog, and that the dog cannot get to or over front gates or fences such that they could potentially harass passers by or passing children putting their hands out to touch them, or get out if the gate is opened. A dog should not be allowed access to a front gate, it is elementary logic. If those criteria cannot be met, or the owner is not prepared to make the effort to properly fence, then no dog....simple. Edit: and this should be enforced by the local council, after all we pay enough in dog registration fees. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1395092 | 2015-02-26 19:21:00 | Lighten up you lot, I bet if I followed you or your kids around all day taking photos I would catch you doing something wrong. Chances are I would get arrested too I suppose. My neighbours drove me spare by encouraging my dog to visit them and it's pretty hard to keep gates shut all the time. Maybe this dog is also visiting another of your neighbours. Why don't you try talking to the owner, they may not know about the rubbish bin issue. Not all owners are thugs, calm down!! Suggest they watch the dog more closely on rubbish day. Nope if the section is suitable for a dog it's not hard at all keeping gates closed, in fact I always put a padlock on my gate so nobody else could let my dog out during the day when I was at work and he was locked in the back yard. If your dog occasionally gets out that's one thing, if it's free to roam at will most of the time that's something else entirely. As I attempted to point out earlier, the dog doesn't have to be dangerous or aggressive to be a problem, to add to that the owners don't have to be thugs to be irresponsible. If you want to own a dog, put the effort in and do it properly or don't do it at all. We can all forgive a slip here and there if an owner is responsible most of the time but a great deal of owners should never be allowed to have a dog. As a dog lover I have come to the conclusion actually that large dogs don't belong in built up urban areas and cities at all. To be fair to the dog for it's own well being a large dog needs acres of space to run and play in, daily walks don't cut it. People who disagree are thinking about themselves more than the animals. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1395093 | 2015-02-26 20:06:00 | I have wanted a dog for years but decided to wait until I retire so that I can give it the attention it will need. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1395094 | 2015-02-26 21:01:00 | We've 'always' had dogs, mostly 2 or 3. When we moved to this address 37 years ago, the first thing to do was to make the section dog proof. It meant running wire mesh down one side of the section, fencing along the back where the section merged into bush behind us, and building a 1.8m high gate between the house and the garage so that dogs could neither get out to the front nor stray dogs get into the back. Even so, we had one dog who was an escaper, and he managed to wriggle out through a drainage ditch once or twice before I found out where he was getting out, and he showed another of our dogs how to do it :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1395095 | 2015-03-01 07:31:00 | If you don't want to confront them or report them just yet, write an anonymous letter and post it. I'm sure you can figure out their address :) Explain to them that you'd prefer to avoid things getting heated but that letting their dog roam uncontrolled is not acceptable and if it continues animal control will be informed. A responsible dog owner might get annoyed but they'll take the threat seriously. An irresponsible one, well you'd end up reporting them anyway. Did that once myself, it worked. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1395096 | 2015-03-01 18:39:00 | Fencing dogs in is one good thing, but making that fence sound-proof is very tricky indeed. :( | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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