Another dog attack
For the second time this year Izzy was attacked by a loose dog! I am so angry that I decided to vent to all of you. It was a neighbor dog that has shown a lot of dog aggression in the past and I have talked to him about it and gave him info about a trainer in our area that may be able to help. I have been alarmed lately that I have seen him in the park land behind our house with the dog off leash and my next door neighbor has related a few incidents also. Izzy and I were walking on the sidewalk and as soon as I saw the dog was tied in their front yard I moved into the street but he lunged forward broke the rope he was tied with and was on Izzy suddenly. I screamed and kicked him so he backed off and by that time the owner was there to grab him. He apologized and I let him know that having him tied in front of the house was just asking for trouble. He said I was unfair and that the rope broke so it wasn't his fault. At this point I was furious!! I let him know it was an unacceptable excuse and that I have seen him off leash several times. Later I wrote him a note outlining the incidents I knew about and the ones my next door neighbor had related and let him know that if I hear of any other incident I will report him to Animal Control. I probably should report him anyway but this is a very nice long time neighbor so I want to give him a chance to be responsible. Meanwhile Izzy is fine, he did not break the skin but she was very shook up and I am very worried about how she will interact with strange dogs. I will never understand why someone with an aggressive dog can be so careless. No amount of apologies will make someone whose dog was hurt or killed feel better. Why be so careless?? Ugh! Anyway I feel better unloading!
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Permalink Reply by Denis J. on
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I'm still shocked / laughing from a post the other day about hunters not being able to reconize cows and horses from deers, forcing farmers to paint the side of the animal with "cow" or "horse" on the side. We have to go to those extremes because you can be a registered firearm owner even if you don't have your elementary education, where you would have learned about the different types of animals.
The same argument can be said for dog owners. You can become one without having any clue of the responsibility, committments, and risks involved. Some of them walk with a loaded gun at the end of a leash, pants half down and think its pimp. Then when "the gun" goes off they cry and give us a sob story: "I didn't know if could go off on its own, it's never done that before". (using backyard redneck speech to make it authentic). :)
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Permalink Reply by Linda on
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Bev....good comparison. Guess I never thought of it that way. They both need the same things..love, some spoiling, direction and goals. Thinking in that manner I'm pretty proud of both my 2 legged and 4 legged kids.
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Denis...that was me who posted about the famers painting the COW or HORSE. We are 1.5 hours north of NYC up in the Catskills. Lots of small farms around here. We get people from the city who think it would be fun to go hunting up in the boonies. And you are absolutely right about people not having the brains or who don't take the time to learn about having a gun or a dog. That's why there are so many accidents (I'm not talking deliberate acts) with guns and why there are so many dogs in rescues and shelters.
The sad part is that you can teach people but that doesn't mean they will apply it to either.
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Vicky..thankfully they did heal up ok. Of course my husband came close to dying after he forcibly held my hand over the sink and poured a bottle of peroxide over my hand. Having had cats in my life for the last 40 years I don't take cat scratches lightly...lots of washing with soap and hot water and constant applications of Neosporin for even the smallest scratch or dig.
Of course there are differences between children and dogs, we try our best with both so that they become happy and good members of society. The difference is once our kids are grown they will do what they will do...parents stop having a total influence once they become a certain age, all we can do then is pray that we done it right. With dogs we have the chance to continue reinforcing the behavior we want...as long as there aren't any hidden aggression problems that pop up down the road.
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Permalink Reply by Marcie on
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Becca seems to have a set of criteria. She is fine with dogs she knows in class, with two exceptions. There is a husky mix with no boundaries she does not like. The have progressed from her lifting her lip at him for looking at her, to letting him approach and lifting the lip after he keeps pushing the boundary. I read an article about how herding dogs have a larger "bubble" than other breeds. Overall she does not dogs who are very outgoing and run up to her.
Her "snark" started after being attacked by one of the aggressive dogs in the neighborhood. She gives the approaching dog the lip curl warning, then will bark or roar at them. I now take precautions. At class or trials she is crated unless she is working or warming up. It's funny though, she has never snarked while passing dogs at a trial, and things can be very up close and personal near the gate. She also will relax in her crate, and doesn't out on leash.
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Permalink Reply by Anya Q. on
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My sister has a Belgian Malinois who is NOT friendly with other dogs, my sister doesn't mind it, she always has him under control and does a lot of training (shutzhund).
A couple of weeks ago she was walking him on the sidewalk near her house when a neighbor let out two of his shih tzus who ran straight towards my sister's Malinois (suicidal little dogs!)! My sister got so scared that her dog would hurt them, she pulled him away and started walking really fast trying to distract her dog and ended up tripping and falling really hard. She twisted her wrist and had the worst bruises on her legs and arms.
I know this is a different kind of story but my point is that some people don't realize that having dogs off leash is a real danger, to them, to other dogs and to people!
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Permalink Reply by Vicky Hay on
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OMG, that's terrible!
Cassie tripped me and caused me to fall when we were charged by a large, vicious dog that, mercifully, was locked behind a chain-link fence. It still caused her to panic and dart between my legs. The fall dislocated my shoulder. Because of my age (apparently), it took a full year to completely recover.
Stupid, stupid people! The neighbors came out of their house and started yelling at the homeowner, who came out to see what the commotion was. Apparently this wasn't the first incident with his crazed "pet."
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My gosh. Well, glad you recovered :)
I also feel bad for those dogs, their owners just leave them out without proper attention and training and I feel like the dogs get so stessed out because they're not shown how to behave around other dogs/people especially without the owner around so they attack because they don't know any better!
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Good thought. In my part of town we have some idiot neighbors who acquired a dog (presumably from the pound, but that may be presuming too much) that barks. And barks and barks and barks and barks and...because the idiots leave the poor beast outside in the back yard ALL the time, 118 degrees or 28 degrees. Apparently they never let the animal in their house.
It was the sort of establishment that you would say a little grateful prayer of thanks, every time you walked by, that these clowns didn't live right next door to you.
Apparently the proximate neighbors complained. So the idiot humans had the dog's vocal cords cut.
Now it croaks and croaks and croaks and croaks and croaks and croaks and croaks and croaks and.... Yeah. Clever folk, eh?
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What the hell is the point of getting the dog? I'll never understand that, to me, if you get a dog it's because you want its company and to give it a good life.
There was a dog tied to a bush in someone's yard on maybe a 5 foot rope not too far from my old house, it was 100 degrees and he had an empty bowl that he couldn't reach even if there was water in there. Poor thing was so skinny, you could see every bone. I saw him once, saw him twice, the third time I brought some kibble and threw it over the little fence and poured some water in a plastic container. He looked at me as if he was thanking me.
Anyway, after a couple of weeks I decided to call the ASPCA and they told me that they already received a call about the dog but they weren't going to do anything because by the rules, if there's a bowl (even if empty), they consider the dog as taken care of, they also said the dog is skinny because it's old (WHAT?!). I was very sad because the poor dog was suffering. In another week the dog wasn't in the yard but I saw a soil patch in the grass right on the side of their house :(
I know this is a different type of story, but I think neglecting your dog in any way is abuse, whether you leave them to bark all day and be super stressed out or starve them, either way they're miserable!
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Excellent question!
Neighbors here managed to get rid of an obnoxious renter when we found that he had penned two puppies in a cage and left them out in the 100-degree sun. But meanwhile the SOB was also abusing his children. One set of neighbors complained about the child abuse to the landlord (who lives in the 'hood -- gotta give him credit for not being an absentee landlord) and the other set complained about the puppies. Landlord went through the roof. He informed his fine tenant that the neighbors were about to call Child Protective Services and that he (Landlord) was about to call the Humane Society. Tenant skipped town the next day.
The puppies were rescued, but sadly, the children were not.
In our parts, it's against the law to stake a dog outside. Period. It's also against the law to leave a dog inside a car. The latter applies to children, too. But apparently it's OK to just leave your dog outside in a fenced yard.
IMHO, a person who will abuse a dog will do the same to children. Old people, too, no doubt.
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Vicky...how absolutely horrible for that dog! What miserable, uncaring bastards they are.
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