Dogs and neighbors.

[ovrszd]

It is worse than that. In my experience, some people use their dogs as surrogate aggressors, which is especially unfair to the dogs who pay the price when it is pushed too far.

That was my point earlier with my "mean dogs" comment.

 

[Travelover]

That was my point earlier with my "mean dogs" comment.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Sigarms]

Sweet dog that is as good as can be, just has an owner who is a bit dense. He has earned the nickname "D!@%head" with the folks around there. Right now there isn't anything that has happened that really concerns me, of course the day he come trotting by (the dog, not the owner) at first light when I am in the deer stand might be a different story.....

I like to try and avoid things that add stress and headaches to my life

Why would you kill a "sweet dog" that you apparently know when you're in your deer stand? Because the dog is on your property and may ruin your hunt? If that's the case, you may earn the name D!@%head as well.

 

[Paddy]

I'm with making friends with the folks across the street camp.

I have been on both sides of the fence so to speak. First example; had a new neighbor move in across the street. Our houses were a good 1000 ft apart. He had two very large dogs that were friendly but just kept showing up. We had rabbits in an raised pen. One day I saw his dogs under the cage and I shooed them off. Then I noticed 3 rabbits had no feet left!! I butchered them and began to think how to deal with this. My wife and I talked it over and we decided to,,,,invite them over for a rabbit dinner!. We became the best of friends and joked about it for many years. I was a carpenter at the time and he encouraged me to back to engineering school and was lucky he tutored me to the end. Changed my life.

Today, 25 years later, I have a little jack Russel that is the king of bunny chasing. Nearest full time neighbor is 1/2 mile away. He runs all over but we have a tracker. There are two summer houses that are occupied 6 weekends per year. We never know when we have a smaller territory but try to keep him in when they are there. If it's adults, he just ignores them, but some times the kids will swing sticks at him and he starts barking. Arg, so frustrating. If they would just throw the stick, he chase it all day long. Fence the kids? Now the kids are gone
so not an issue. The other house, I offer tractor help now and again so he ignores him. Good for now, but it always in flux

 

[polo1665]

I have a small place (20 acres) about 70 minutes from my house. Most everyone around me lives there full time. There is a fella that lives a couple of hundred yards down the road that refuses to chain or fence his dog. I have a few pics of the dog on my game camera, and he leaves a few of his snickers bar-sized landmines around my camper from time to time.

Sweet dog that is as good as can be, just has an owner who is a bit dense. He has earned the nickname "D!@%head" with the folks around there. Right now there isn't anything that has happened that really concerns me, of course the day he come trotting by (the dog, not the owner) at first light when I am in the deer stand might be a different story.....

I like to try and avoid things that add stress and headaches to my life

I hope you meet the same fate this guy did.

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[prichard]

Whoa! Where did kuschneider say he was going to kill the dog?

He said "Right now there isn't anything that has happened that really concerns me, of course the day he come trotting by (the dog, not the owner) at first light when I am in the deer stand might be a different story...."

I didn't see anywhere that he said he'd kill it.

 

[ch1ch2]

I could tell dog stories all day long, both good and bad, but mostly good.
In reading the OP, I originaly some what agreed with PJ the Kid. But I then caught myself. Keep the dog on your property and problem solved.

I do not have a problem with a dog that gets out occasionally and comes over to my property.
I do have a problem with an owner who thinks or lets his dog think my property is his.
A dog owner should make an effort to keep his dog from imposing on others.
Good fences make good neighbors.

 

[ovrszd]

I could tell dog stories all day long, both good and bad, but mostly good.
In reading the OP, I originaly some what agreed with PJ the Kid. But I then caught myself. Keep the dog on your property and problem solved.

I do not have a problem with a dog that gets out occasionally and comes over to my property.
I do have a problem with an owner who thinks or lets his dog think my property is his.
A dog owner should make an effort to keep his dog from imposing on others.
Good fences make good neighbors.

I have failed to "catch myself" more times than I want to admit. Controversial posts should always be read more than once before posting a reply. Good catch.

 

[oldballs]

City dogs, Country dogs..............There are way more stupid dog owners in both places than considerate owners. Classy city neighborhoods can have fancy fenced yards with an expensive pooch that barks at every thing, be it a falling leaf or a passing kid or car....day and night. Geeze. Everybody is held hostage to such irritation and the codes/regulations seem to have little effect. But, it beats having suicide bombers in the neighborhood.

 

[Shaneard]

City dogs, Country dogs..............There are way more stupid dog owners in both places than considerate owners. Classy city neighborhoods can have fancy fenced yards with an expensive pooch that barks at every thing, be it a falling leaf or a passing kid or car....day and night. Geeze. Everybody is held hostage to such irritation and the codes/regulations seem to have little effect. But, it beats having suicide bombers in the neighborhood.

We have a neighbor who has a little yapping dog, they turn their front porch light on and put the dog on a cable and let it bark & bark then it barks more. Poor dog, what kind of life is that? I moved our camper to the edge of our property in between our house and theirs so at least now we can't see it, it doesn't seem to bark our way as much as it did since it can't see us either. But on the plus side their dog hasn't been lose and tried to get in our fence like our other neighbors dog does.