Neighbors Dogs Running Loose

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Two dogs I have never seen before running loose on my property. 5:00 am they set off the driveway alarm. Cause my dog to go nuts waking my SWMBO. One is a big Rottie. Not sure about the other. They both clearly have collars. When it gets light out I will go out and see if I can get close enough to determine who the owner is.

Sorry just had to b*tch...... too early in the morning for this.....
 
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Two dogs I have never seen before running loose on my property. 5:00 am they set off the driveway alarm. Cause my dog to go nuts waking my SWMBO. One is a big Rottie. Not sure about the other. They both clearly have collars. When it gets light out I will go out and see if I can get close enough to determine who the owner is.

Sorry just had to b*tch...... too early in the morning for this.....
Not a lot you can do in my experience. It sounds like one instance and it happens. I have a neighbor that thinks it's his right for the dog to roam. Barks all night, funny thing is I dont complain about the barking but he knows its frustrating so he brings it up first in conversation stating his dog is doing his job.

Basically the law wont do anything for you until after someone gets bit or after it eats your animals. Around here if you can catch it during the act you have the right to protect your animals.

In my case he's just s real ****** dog owner. First dog he had I'm pretty sure it caused a wreck where the kid died in my front yard. I heard later that he found his dog dead in the ditch just ahead of where the accident started where the kid went through his brick mailbox.

His next dog was attacking the lady's animals down the street. She had all sorts, I recall it was attacking her peacocks at the time. She couldn't catch it in time and the dog ran home. Well she took her gun and went 3 houses down and shot the dog in the owners front yard. She went to jail for 2 years.

Third dog got hit and died. He immediately got a new dog but it's a puppy atm cant wait for the terror it will bring.

In the first week of moving in I had to come home from work to help my wife get out of our own house. A big dog from another neighbor jumped on her as she was coming back from an errand and wouldn't leave.

All four closest houses to me have dogs and they have all been in my yard. The old couple have an old dog that's over daily but he just roams, doesnt even bark. He walks away from me when I'm outside.

I also have a driveway sensor that's had been tripped a few times. It's pretty close to the gate so once the dogs learn they cant go that way they dont trip it anymore.

I guess I'm saying, you should feel lucky if this is uncommon for you. Dogs can sometimes find a way out. If you can, help the dog find its owner this time and maybe the owner just slipped on something or the dogs found a weakness in his fence he was unaware of and will now fix it.
 
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If you have Animal Control, call them.

We have animal control. They are worthless in the county.

I will try to catch them and find an owner. Because it is the first time I have seen these dogs the only reason I am mad is because they set off the driveway sensor and woke us up.
 
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If can safely check to se if ID also take picture of dogs,if ID confront owner explain no more,if owner has negative attitude lawn enforcement,if dog/dogs threat to you protect yourself any means.
 
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We had a cute Walker dropped off on my dead end street. It wandered the neighborhood and my Wife finally made the mistake of feeding it. Now we have a dog, lol! The Walker would not stay in the 4 foot chain link fenced back yard. He continued to wander over to one neighbors house that fed their dog on the back porch (to eat it's food). They brought it to my house in the middle of the day (in the summer) and tied it up to my front porch with a bowl of water (which probably got turned over immediately) so the dog was without water in the Florida heat most of the day till I got home. The neighborhood dog continued to get out, supposedly terrorizing them. They called the police and the police told me to keep "my dog" in the yard or else. So I made a concerted effort to keep the dog in. Didn't work. The police were called again and they told me it was a $250 fine per day starting today for not keeping "my dog" in the yard. I explained that it really wasn't my dog, but that it was running the streets and I was simply trying to keep it from getting run over. Even the ad I had place saying "found dog" went ignored. The policeman said the pound was open till six, we made it in record time only to be told "we are not taking dogs today". We finally got them to give us a kennel to put on the front porch for picking up the dog in two days. Poor dog howled for two days while we were at work. I hope those neighbors hear those howls in their sleep. Their address was removed from my "help the neighborhood during a hurricane" list.
I hope the Walker was adopted!
David from jax
 
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Keeping a dog in a too-small kennel on a porch for two days is not something I'm sure I'd admit publicly.
 
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Keeping a dog in a too-small kennel on a porch for two days is not something I'm sure I'd admit publicly.

Tying a dog on a 4 foot lease to a porch would be worse, but that is what they did. I didn't have a choice, I would much, much, much more preferred to keep the dog, rather than it go to the pound. Spending the money to "dog proof" my yard so that it would stay in was my issue. I probably could have purchased a 10 foot by 10 foot for it, but that isn't fair to the dog. The dog had to be contained in order for the pound to pick it up, and they supplied the kennel. We did let the dog out during the time we were at home, simply because we liked the dog. When we went to work, it had to be on the porch in the kennel in order for the pound to pick it up, and they couldn't give us a time so that we could simply take off work and be there. It took them two days to get it picked up, again not my choice.
With the issue of $250 a day fine, with the stipulations of it being in the kennel for pickup, please explain exactly what you would have done other than make the dog as comfortable as possible, which we did?
David from jax
 
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Two dogs I have never seen before running loose on my property. 5:00 am they set off the driveway alarm. Cause my dog to go nuts waking my SWMBO. One is a big Rottie. Not sure about the other. They both clearly have collars. When it gets light out I will go out and see if I can get close enough to determine who the owner is.

Sorry just had to b*tch...... too early in the morning for this.....

Beware of the big Rottie :eek:

BOAH: Animal-Related Laws
 
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If can safely check to se if ID also take picture of dogs,if ID confront owner explain no more,if owner has negative attitude lawn enforcement,if dog/dogs threat to you protect yourself any means.

Yep. I could not get a pic this am as it was too dark. I only saw the dogs because they tripped one of my motion sensor lights.

Now of course the dogs are no where to be seen.

If they threaten humans or our livestock well.... Indiana law provides me a right of self defense. Plus there are three letter s.....
 
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