No Brains !!!! idiot neighbor teasing dogs - Page 2

I read this post the other day and thought wow, how stupid and ignorant people could be then today as we were enjoying the first beautiful day with a family cook out I notice this kid trying to scale my 6ft privacy fence as we all sat watching in disbelief from the deck. I yell over to him-hey, get off the fence, he goes away only to come back a few minutes later to do it again only this time with a friend so this time I am HOT, steaming mad and I run over to the fence and ask him if he's hard of hearing, he says no, I said well then you just must not have any brains to be scaling a fence when you know there's a dog behind it that may or may not bite you??? I told him to stay off my fence and away from the dog because if he gets bit it will be his own fault but my ass, he's not a poodle or a yorkie and he doesn't take kindly to strangers trying to scale his fence. I just couldn't believe this. This wasn't a little kid either-he had to be 13-14 years old. It's a good thing we were all outside and the dog did not feel the situation was a threat but I can tell you if no one was out and this boy put his arm over the fence I'm not so sure he would have still had an arm. Don't people talk to their kids about this kind of stuff???

Heck, the adults can be just as idiotic, even if you COULD get parents to talk to their children, half the time the parents are just as stupid. I'll never forget when I worked at six flags. We had a north american black bear in an enclosure. From the front of the enclosure nobody could approach, you could only see him from a ride. He was older and pretty onery, especially during hibernation season. Pretty much even us caretakers didn't handle him more then we needed to. But I was walking back from lunch one day and there were people at the back side of the enclosure. Some employees from one of the shows were feeding him twinkies, reaching IN to his enclosure trying to pet him. I of course gave them a chewing and reported them, but couldn't believe people could be THAT idiotic. The more I'm around people though, the more I realize how idiotic they really are. If they're stupid enough to reach into the cage of a black bear in hibernation who is ramming his head into the fence trying to get to them, then scaling a wall to come face to face with a shepherd is no biggie ya know?

One thing, on the spraying of the hose from behind the fence. I have to admit that there are times I'm sorely tempted to spray the pit bull that stands at my fence and barks EVERY time I step foot into my yard dead on in the face. I have tried everything from feeding her, to house sitting for the neighbors so she can get to know me. Still, it is a PITA to have her there. I cannot go into my yard without constant barking. My own dogs can't run loose without her yapping constantly and trying to attack the fence. And they don't really do anything about it. So I can really kind of feel for a neighbor wanting to spray a dog in the face with the hose IF they don't shut up every time the person enters their yard. I basically have just taught my dogs to ignore the dog next door, though it is a pain in the neck that they can't be in my own yard without me standing right there watching, and without her barking continously and ferociously at the fence. And we're not talking that I go up to the fence (though my boys will run up the hill past her, how can they RESIST running past this crazy pit bull who won't shut up?) we're talking, I just open my back door and go onto my patio. Though my boys are never put out unattended except into the dog run which is set away from the fences. One of my dogs however HATES teenagers and children now though as where he used to live the idiot kids would poke sticks through the fence at him. I can hardly blame him, half the time I wish they'd have gotten bit to teach them a lesson...course it would have been my fault. stupid court system if you ask me.

Yes it's an unfortunate problem. Years ago some insane tyrant got his pellet gun and shot and wounded our next door neighbor's horses and then shot and killed the other neighbor's terrier. The 'other' neighbor decided it was open season on wild geese and shot one of them to get rid of the flock. The mate of the dead goose hung around mourning for days and days. Hit and run on animals. How sick and twisted can it get? Give the animal a gun and I'll call it a sport. Get a video and sue their ass.

I had a protection trained male shep- our chain link fence is set back 5 or 6 feet from the property line. One day I heard him barking, I go outside and my nice neighbor was showing his 3 year old grandson the doggie and letting him poke sticks through the fence. I sternly told my neighbor to stop it and to keep his grandson away from the fence. We are still friends and he leaves the dogs alone. People just don't think about what they are doing. Luckily my dog had been raised with our son and knew kids were just kids and do stupid things so he was not aggresively going at the situation just barking.

Abby K I love your idea, Now that would be justice. LOL

Echo, Something about neighbors. About 3 years ago my 12 yr. old female was dying of a liver disease. She was dying slowly. Slowly losing weight. The vet said to feed her the highest quality food so what she did obsorb would be of value to her. So I pampered her every day on fresh meat and a quality kibble. She was happy and other then weight loss and lower energy she was pretty purky. I had told my neighbor not to feed her anything as she was not eating good and what she did eat needed to be top quality. I had also routinely asked him not to take her in the back of his pickup, as I did not even do that myself. We were hoping that she would last until the holidays when my kids and everyone would be there to see her for the last time. It appeared this was very reasonable to expect. I came home one day in early Nov. a very cold day. She was in the driveway and couldn't move. She seemed to be comotose. I asked my neighbor if any thing happened to her. He said " ya, I took her out in the back of the truck today. He went on to say he had to lift her in as she couldn't jump in. After riding around in the back of his open bed truck half the day her life was cut short. The next day I had to take her in and have her put to sleep. I can't tell you what that dog meant to me. I cant tell you how angry I was with this man. Over the years I have told him over and over not to take my dogs out of the yard. Not to feed them anything, and leave them alone. But he has chosen to disregard every thing my wife and I have asked of him.He sees himself a the dog garu. Now he is upset that my dogs are barking at other dogs or people that come by our house. My gut tells me to let my dogs bite him in the nuts and hang on until I out them, which might be awhile. But there is something more important. It is called forgiveness. It is called being a good neighbor even when I dont want to. It is called be responsible for my actions. I cant control what he does but I do have a say in what I do. Him being a horses ass does not give me the right to be one. So, I have told him I will buy a bark collar for my dogs. I will do everything I can do to do my part to be a good neighbor. For any that read this post, I do not expect anyone to agree with what I am doing. But I will sleep tonight and not go to bed with vengence and hatred.(Maybe just a little). This is not to say that each situation needs to be dealt with like this, but I wanted to submit this as an alternative to letting someone else control my life.

Oh my gosh that is so tragic, I am so very sorry for you loss, Your a bigger person than I am, I would have beaten him within an inch of his misserable life. Ummm how about dog napping, sounds like this idiot just helps himself to your dogs anytime he wants something to ride around in the truck so he can look macho or what ?? Wow, I am so sorry. I don't know how you do it, But praise you for it !! Like you said you will sleep tontie, and me well I never sleep, enough said there I suppose. Highly respect you for your decision to be in control of your life. and again many praises to you in your alternatives. Much Much better person than I am and you'll probably live alot longer for it too. :-) My regards and prayers to you, I hope you find some peace and comfort regarding your loss.

olskoolgsd, you are a much better person than I and it appears you have the patience of a saint when it comes to people. I unfortunately lack that quality as I have little to 0 patience for ignorance. I would absolutely never stand for my neighbor joy riding my dog around-no way. I probably would have been nice about it the first time but then after that all bets would have been off. Did you ever consider getting him a dog of his own to pal around with? I'm sure there's plenty of nice GSD's in rescue that would love to ride around in the back of a truck all day.

olskoolgsd, WOW! My hat is off to you for being so forgiving! The first time someone took my dog for a ride in the back of an open truck, I'd patiently but firmly tell them I didn't want that to ever happen again, and explain the danger to the dog. The next time it happened, I'd probably charge them with trespassing. So sorry this happened to your dog! :( As for parents, NO they do NOT teach their kids how to act around dogs. Shortly after bringing my current dog home, I attended the first night of an obedience class with him. Now, at this point I was still getting to know this dog, and had not yet exposed him to small children. As our class was ending, another class was coming in. I was sitting in a chair, waiting to talk to the instructor. I heard the pitter-pat of little feet behind me, and thought about turning around, but decided not to. Next thing I knew, this little tot, who was not even as tall as my dog was sitting down, threw his arms around Ranger's neck and gave him a big hug. I just about freaked out, as my previous GSD was NOT good with kids, and would have bitten the kid for sure. Thank God, Ranger did not react that way. As a matter of fact, he seemed to enjoy the attention. Then, this little guy's slightly older brother came and did the same thing. The 3rd, and oldest, boy in this family was a little more cautious, and just patted Ranger on the head. I was sorely tempted to wait until the parents showed up, and have a little chat with them, but just then, the instructor came over to talk to me, and I missed my chance. Imagine, having a dog, and NOT teaching your kids how to approach a strange dog!