Okay, venting time...
I just heard that one of our neighbors has threatened to "make our dog disappear"!. We have an 8 month old dog and she's a very sweet and friendly thing, but being still a pup at heart she sometimes does things like digging holes and stealing things from the neighbors and bringing them here (to be destroyed in peace...). She doesn't do this a lot - it has happened several times since we have her but not constantly.
This is a rural area where people have no fences around their yards and lots of people have dogs. We get dogs in our yard as well and they sometimes do their share of damage. I think they're picking on our dog because she's the friendliest of all the dogs around here and comes over to the people whose yard she visits.
We are actually looking into solutions like an electronic dog fence (we can't afford to fence the whole yard properly and our in-laws don't want to have a fence either - it's their yard). I don't want to chain the dog as the neighbors want us to, as I feel it would be too cruel. We want to buy her an electronic fence, the kind that comes with a special collar that gives her an unpleasant (but unpainful) pulse whenever she tries to cross the fence. It is very expensive but I don't see any other alternative, as I certainly believe it's our responsibility to make sure she doesn't bother the neighbors.
What is so upsetting is that neighbor that threatens to either poison her or take her away and abandon her somewhere!!! I have been told by someone that one of the neighbors said that but they won't tell me who exactly that was. I asked them to take the message back that we are taking care of the problem and that should anything happen to the dog I will personally start a third world war on out street and I hope the message gets there. I am also going to talk to the neighbor who I think is the one who said it and explain the situation.
I am just so angry that someone can be so horrible as to take things out on a poor dog instead of coming over and talk to us! If it is the person I suspect that I'm doubly angry as he really brought it onto himself. He brought rabbits and chickens into his unfenced yard and made his yard the center attraction for all the neighborhood dogs. Of course, by now there are no rabbits or chickens left (all eaten by the dogs - not our dog!). But the dogs still like to visit his yard just in case they'll find another animal to hunt down... I mean, what does he expect? And he calls himself an animal lover too!
Sorry about this - had to vent or I'll explode and you're the only one I can talk to right now. Hubby's at work and unavailable and my in-laws keep telling me to be nice to the neighbors as they don't want no fights.
I just heard that one of our neighbors has threatened to "make our dog disappear"!. We have an 8 month old dog and she's a very sweet and friendly thing, but being still a pup at heart she sometimes does things like digging holes and stealing things from the neighbors and bringing them here (to be destroyed in peace...). She doesn't do this a lot - it has happened several times since we have her but not constantly.
This is a rural area where people have no fences around their yards and lots of people have dogs. We get dogs in our yard as well and they sometimes do their share of damage. I think they're picking on our dog because she's the friendliest of all the dogs around here and comes over to the people whose yard she visits.
We are actually looking into solutions like an electronic dog fence (we can't afford to fence the whole yard properly and our in-laws don't want to have a fence either - it's their yard). I don't want to chain the dog as the neighbors want us to, as I feel it would be too cruel. We want to buy her an electronic fence, the kind that comes with a special collar that gives her an unpleasant (but unpainful) pulse whenever she tries to cross the fence. It is very expensive but I don't see any other alternative, as I certainly believe it's our responsibility to make sure she doesn't bother the neighbors.
What is so upsetting is that neighbor that threatens to either poison her or take her away and abandon her somewhere!!! I have been told by someone that one of the neighbors said that but they won't tell me who exactly that was. I asked them to take the message back that we are taking care of the problem and that should anything happen to the dog I will personally start a third world war on out street and I hope the message gets there. I am also going to talk to the neighbor who I think is the one who said it and explain the situation.
I am just so angry that someone can be so horrible as to take things out on a poor dog instead of coming over and talk to us! If it is the person I suspect that I'm doubly angry as he really brought it onto himself. He brought rabbits and chickens into his unfenced yard and made his yard the center attraction for all the neighborhood dogs. Of course, by now there are no rabbits or chickens left (all eaten by the dogs - not our dog!). But the dogs still like to visit his yard just in case they'll find another animal to hunt down... I mean, what does he expect? And he calls himself an animal lover too!
Sorry about this - had to vent or I'll explode and you're the only one I can talk to right now. Hubby's at work and unavailable and my in-laws keep telling me to be nice to the neighbors as they don't want no fights.