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Good fences make good neighbors. who said it first?

A situation like what you described will make youfeel like your heart is going to burst through your chest. I have broken up dog fights and i know how horrible and helpless they make you. A person is no match for the intensity of fighting dogs and it drains a person mentally and physically. I hope your hands heal without complications.

Two years ago, when Gracie bit my elderly male GSD, and refused to let go (and he in turn bit the lady holding his leash!) by the time the dust settled, and I was able to drive my dog and my friend to the hospital, I had a massive headache from my blood pressure going so high!

NOTHING I've experienced in my life gets the adrenaline pumping quite that high, though being run away with by a horse comes close!  (Horses don't usually bite...)

 

Hope your hands heal okay, AND that you are able to find the money to install a proper fence!

Robert Frost?

Sorry you got such a bite  I have had to seperate my own two males due to me being wrong and opening wrong kennel and Austin and Dieter met in the instant and Death do us part was emminent...SO I took the bites as yes, they turn deaf when the fight drive comes out and then one or the other of my two would fight till death...THE high drive Tiekerhook and Enclavehof etc would never stop..

I use  Bag balm on my bites and of coures I have 4 antibiotics on hand at all times..

I have always dreaded any outside dog to come to our fence and for that reason I had to always kennel my kids or make sure Dieter, or Austin , or Bear were inside my home if I went off for my property because of OTHER PEOPLES irresponsibilities.

Had a neighbor down road who approached me when I first moved to the acreage in the country who warned ME...mind you, the owner with the total fenced 3 acreage with locked gates and signs on each one stating dogs inside these gates....warned me if one of my dogs killed or injured his roaming dogs , he would sue me??? Sure enough,. was not long , here came one of his roaming country dogs , as no leash laws in rural Texas, and his head got into the hole in normal cattle fencing @ 3" x 4" and  my dog did its job as I was outside. . I ended the fight and the dog was carried off by law enforcement on scene, who directed my boyfriend at that time to load it up and he told him right where to take the roaming , nuisansce of a dog..END OF STORY...NEIGHBOR never knew where his dog ended up but he sure searched for weeks for it...LEO had knowledge of already warning this neighbor more than 3 times about his dogs roaming into others property and causing problems so they took no time to advise me what I had to do..I could not even open a gate that this dog was down the road threatening me so that day was the end of my worry.

Rural LEO are not gonna touch dog unless it turns on them but they advise land owner or home owner to protect themselves and take no time to end the encounter lawfully and then the problem is solved.  People who let dogs run loose have no business with one.

That is why I moved to the rural area for the sake of my dogs having acreage to run and to have room for training and breeding on my own property  but that gives no one else the right to let their dogs come put heads thru my fences or line up with their other dogs in their gang to cause me problems. Other laws in USA are different by county and by city .. I left the city as close quarters was not for me.\

 

Hope you recover...YOU might want to be sure your gates are locked...helps to know yours won't push it open or someone accidentally enter..]

YR

I remember the last time the neighbor's dog did that— stuck his head through your cattle fence it was, if I am not mistaken? And got his head bit. Didn't you show up on the guy's doorstep to smooze him with a bottle of rum? You always take your own best advice, I've noticed. You'll give him a case this time?

I do not go near any of the rural neighbors,,they all have vicious mutt dogs they do not even take enough time to feed.

Most of the ones sticking heads thru the fence, usually end up dead on the busy road in front of my house. They forget what a truck is  when my gsd get thru blooding their faces. Only happened 3 times.  I have retired so no dogs out running..

I gave al the runabouts a FREE TRIP TO THE GRAVEYARD

 

yr

the dogs getting run over thing does not seem to phase some people, they just get another one. i think change is the issue, they were doing this before the population came and there was basically no other traffic than themselves so dogs getting run over was little or no risk...then the population and vehicles came and generally speaking city folk drive faster have the windows up and are not animal savy. the originals could not change with the changing environment. same thing they were there first and nearest neighbours were a long way away so they grew up with free roamoing dogs and it really was a case of less things for them to get in trouble with. then came the retirees and the city slickers looking for the hobby farm and all of a sudden pets, fences and neighbors were evrywhere in no time flat along with legal obligations and laws. all of which is foreign and resented and they just will not change.

 

just my take on it.