Neighbor Issues - Page 1

Unfortunatly my neighbors have the ability to traipse through my backyard in front of my kennels.

They do this often, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day in the warmer months with their little ankle biter Shitzhu. Well, of course this drives my dogs absolutley nuts. They bark and hop. Back in October, my Czech female took a cheap shot at their Shitzhu while my daughter was walking her. She grabbed and shook it. The neighbor was bit on the arm because he reached in for his dog.  Now, the little dog wasnt badly harmed, but now I have HUGE issues with the neighbor. They are saying our dogs are vicious, aggressive and have even went as far as to say they have witnessed our dogs attack our own children (ridiculous) where they had to pull the dog off. First, I will have you know our dogs are never out all together. I have females that do not get along, second it would make sense that if you pulled someones dog off their child, would you not let them know about it and would the child not have some sort of marks?? Our dogs are trained and they were all raised with our children. PLUS, there is always supervision with the littler children and the dogs even though we know they would never hurt them. THIS is common sense!

I completely understand their perspective as far as their dog, I would be upset too... I OFFERED to pay vet bills. They refused. They have requested I get rid of the female that did this and have voiced concern over my male that I use for detection work... they think he is going to bite them because he barks at the kids when they are playing or when strangers pull into their yard...



The dogs are kenneled, or in the house. NEVER out loose here at the house. I am perplexed and currently looking for a new, larger, piece of property with no neighbors! Anxiety is my middle name now and

Thanks for listening to my vent...


How would you handle this situation?

Sperna

Build the tallest privacy fence that your local codes allow. Or move.

Yes, moving is in my short term agenda... I am just very frustrated at the ignorance of some people and their uncanny ability to "invent" scenarios...

   IMO people are strange  these days...and I would do whatever necessary to keep peace until you can get the heck out of there....Moving to the country in the most excellent thing we ever did for our family and pets......: )

   Good luck....I agree build a fence  : )

Ah yes... trying to keep peace is hard when you want to defend what you have worked so hard for and with... LOL  I am looking at property in the country with acreage as we speak.... the tracking would be superb there...  ;)

Are they reasonable people , or are these people that can not be reasoned with?

I believed them to be reasonable up until this point. Any explanation of the breed etc, is thrown back at me as an excuse. There is no reasoning with the man, the woman is very quiet, but she did share that her hubby re- injured  a bum knee coming out of the house to "save" his dog and if he cannot work and they lose their house it's my fault... LOL UGH! 

The man told me that one day he had to pull this same female off my two year old because she was attacking him. This female in question is a three year old Arson Detection Dog, who has been kept in the house with our seven children since she was 8 weeks old. BUT not a soul told me my dog attacked my child.... BECAUSE IT DIDNT HAPPEN...

I was told I make things up to make myself feel better. I tried to reason with them...  :( I really try to avoid them. Even my children playing ball with my neighborhood kids and the dog is regarded as an attack if someone is accidently knocked down and stood over by the dog.

Sperna

Tell the neighbour to keep the hell out of your backyard - threaten him with trepass and if that fails shoot him!!

Umm the neighbor was in your yard.  Torturing your dogs walking in front them.  What did they expect.  I had idiot neighbors once.  They has a springer that they let run loose all the time.  He spent his time digging under my fences, fence fighting and generally being a pain.  One day he dug under one fence then two fence....guess what my male dobe killed him in two seconds flat..... Tormenting dogs will get you dead dogs....

Same issues here.  My dogs never attacked another dog or person.  We do have 10 acres and only 1 neighbor.  However, fences make great neighbors.