Dogs and neighbors.

[ovrszd]

Wow! There's a lot going on in this thread.

To the OP, yes your neighbor is a d**k but, that doesn't mean you can let your dog run loose. Keep it in your yard and keep it away from the neighbor kids. They are being cruel. It's your dog, keep it out of harm's way.

I don't trust perimeter training or underground fences. My GSD is very well trained and knows the perimeter but, if another dog challenges it or the Segway rider comes by, all that training disappears. Our GSD is never outside of our fenced yard unless we are with it and at a minimum, she has the training collar on and we have the remote in hand. If we go off property in our neighborhood, she is on a leash. (The number of people with untrained dogs is amazing. Like the lady who late at night just lets her little dog coming running up to my GSD. I did well keeping that little dog safe and the owner never even said sorry. Or the lady with the little dog snarling and straining on the leash to get at my GSD. My GSD did really well with my training to leave it alone but I finally had to tell the lady to get her little dog under control. Sheesh.)

I know of a couple of other GSD's that have underground fencing but if the dog really wants out, they will bolt through the shock zone so fast it doesn't faze them. I'm sure other breeds are also capable of that.

To the OP, stay as courteous as possible to the neighbor. The day may come when you need at least his forbearance on something. We have a neighbor to our 40 acres who used to let his pack run. The lead pit bull was aggressive. He didn't want to believe it when I told him the dog had become so aggressive that I was probably going to have to shoot it to protect my wife, my kids and myself. Because of my giving the dog a chance, he got his dog under control and fenced a large portion of his 30 acres. His pack no longer runs free but they stay on his ground now.

Good luck.

What's a GSD?

 

[Sigarms]

I apologize if I interpreted it wrong, but it sure read that way to me. Reading it again now I can see your point, and like I said.....my apologies to Kuschneider if I got it wrong.

If he was talking about killing the dog....then my statement stands.

If you're in a stand either with a bow or gun, not certain how else you can take it other than killing the dog. Apologies if I'm wrong, but the only other thing I can see Kuschneider doing is shooting to "warn" the dog or scare it, which absolutely still makes no sense since he knows it's a "sweet" dog (but the owner isn't).

 

[Sigarms]

What's a GSD?

Money is on German Shephard.

 

[ovrszd]

Money is on German Shephard.

Yep, you are probably right. I tried several solutions but couldn't come up with anything.

 

[nosurprise]

Guide service dog?

 

[bcp]

GSD dog = German Shepard Dog dog.

gsd dog - Google Search

Bruce

 

[nosurprise]

Gsdd lol

 

[NoTrespassing]

Kevin

Here is a little advice for you.

If you have a female dog who hasn't been spayed, there is a good chance that male dogs may show up at your doorstep.

Sorry, but if you couldn't figure that out, not sure what to do for you.

What I find funny is that due to your own ignorance, you end up shooting a couple of dogs. Bravo my man.

I'm not ignorant, I fully understand that a dog that is allowed to run off his owner's property will get himself into trouble. It's not the dog's fault, it's the owner's fault. Unfortunately it's the dog that ends up paying the price by getting hit by a car or shot by a neighbor. At the time those two male dogs came onto our property day after day and snarled at me and my wife we had a 1 year old son. If I had kept our ***** penned the males would have still been on our property. The only one to blame is the owner of the male dogs that are left to roam without so much as a collar let alone a registration tag.

Kevin

 

[oldballs]

"Oh, he won't bite"..........I love that. But, if I'm on your property I'll have to take my chances. In the past, when on anothers' property and the dog comes jumping all over the side of my truck (scratching it). I just honk the horn until the owner comes out. That works for me.

Hey Richard,,,,,,,,,,I'll call ahead.

 

[Sigarms]

I'm not ignorant, I fully understand that a dog that is allowed to run off his owner's property will get himself into trouble. It's not the dog's fault, it's the owner's fault. Unfortunately it's the dog that ends up paying the price by getting hit by a car or shot by a neighbor. At the time those two male dogs came onto our property day after day and snarled at me and my wife we had a 1 year old son. If I had kept our ***** penned the males would have still been on our property. The only one to blame is the owner of the male dogs that are left to roam without so much as a collar let alone a registration tag.

Kevin

In your original post, you mentioned nothing about agresssion per the male dogs. You led the reader to believe you shot them due to the fact that they were there for your dog in heat.

The fact remains that a female dog in heat WILL attract male dogs.

I'm still scratching my head on why you waited to get her spayed AFTER she got pregnant when you knew strange male dogs were appearing at your doorstep.