Bad Dogs Bad Neighbor

[ovrszd]

I live 4 miles out of town. 5 dogs have appeared over the years, seems 4 miles is a convenient dumping spot for unwanted pets. I usually don't interfere, just let them roam.

The property I owned previously for 41 years seemed to be a dump site. At one time I had 5 dogs. Only one was originally mine. Of the 15-20 dogs I had over the years I never could figure out why they got dumped. I never got a bad one. One of my two current dogs was dumped here at the farm where I live now. He was maybe a year old when he got dumped. That was 11 years ago. He's a great dog. Hi name is Willard.

 

[coobie]

The property I owned previously for 41 years seemed to be a dump site. At one time I had 5 dogs. Only one was originally mine. Of the 15-20 dogs I had over the years I never could figure out why they got dumped. I never got a bad one. One of my two current dogs was dumped here at the farm where I live now. He was maybe a year old when he got dumped. That was 11 years ago. He's a great dog. Hi name is Willard.





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Nice looking pup great smile..

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Shooting a dog is a felony in most states.

Bring a gun is almost always a bad idea.
In NY you can be arrested for thinking about a gun!

Yep. Bringing a gun into a situation where you anticipate getting into a conflict, and where you are on public record as having a dispute, and where you could have chosen to avoid the conflict entirely, is a really, really, bad idea. The kind of bad idea that often lands people in prison.

 

[MossRoad]

I live 4 miles out of town. 5 dogs have appeared over the years, seems 4 miles is a convenient dumping spot for unwanted pets. I usually don't interfere, just let them roam.

My wife and I walk a mile every 20 minutes. We frequently walk for 3 hours on weekends, so about 9 miles. No reason a dog couldn't walk 4 miles in around 1 hour.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

When I was building here 20 years ago it was bird season and a nice Springer showed up, visiting with my dog. I suspected the owner was standing there watching so didn't do anything. The following year I saw somebody getting ready to hunt the abandoned orchard next door so stopped to introduce myself; he made it clear that he's been hunting there for years and didn't really care who I was.

A non-resident hunter who resents being respectfully approached by a neighbor, that's the kind of guy you call the sheriff and the game warden about. Just, "Hey, I'm uncomfortable, please check this guy out." Too many situations where somebody's dad, uncle, buddy at work, knew the owners 30 years ago and was once given permission to hunt and takes it as a lifetime right. "I've always hunted here" doesn't cut it. That's the guy that's liable to take a bad shot and but a bullet through your living room wall.

 

[lman]

From my experience, Postal Inspector won't do much other than large amounts of mail theft and mail fraud along with investigating their employees. Had a case once where a couple stole mail from about 20 mailboxes and immediately forged a check from the stolen mail to buy a pizza. I arrested them later that day. Postal inspector just wanted my report after my investigation was completed. We prosecuted locally because the feds wouldn't do anything. Postal inspector's office was about 60 miles away. That might have had something to do with it.

 

[Sigarms]

Shooting a dog is a felony in most states.

Bring a gun is almost always a bad idea.
In NY you can be arrested for thinking about a gun!

If you and a strange dog are on public property, and the dog is acting aggressive to the point that you are in fear for your life, if you could post the laws that don't allow you to defend yourself I'd love to see them.

As far as NY, I use to live there. Don't anymore, never will. Enough said

 

[Diggin It]

Woman Has Both Arms Amputated After Being Attacked by Dogs While on Walk​

The local South Carolina sheriff's office said that the dogs were taken in by animal control.

 

[Jstpssng]

A non-resident hunter who resents being respectfully approached by a neighbor, that's the kind of guy you call the sheriff and the game warden about. Just, "Hey, I'm uncomfortable, please check this guy out." Too many situations where somebody's dad, uncle, buddy at work, knew the owners 30 years ago and was once given permission to hunt and takes it as a lifetime right. "I've always hunted here" doesn't cut it. That's the guy that's liable to take a bad shot and but a bullet through your living room wall.

He was from 2 towns away and wasn't hunting on my land. I was just trying to be friendly. He wasn't.

 

[Sigarms]

And I made up 'found dog' signs and put them up all over my end of town. And I put an ad in the paper for 2 weeks. No one ever called to even look at him. I had him for 14 years. Great dog.

You probably did, but most people don't...

NEVER post a pic of the dog, but write a general description, and leave key information out about the dog that ONLY the owner of that dog would know about.

I've found through personal experience that there are a lot of crazy people in animal rescue work, but by the same token, there are actually a lot of crazy people looking for "lost pets".

You just want to ensure that the "lost" animal (pet) is given back to the rightful owner.