Ron and I went to town yesterday afternoon and when we got home there were two dogs attacking our miniature horses. The only thing that saved little Quincy and Bizzy was the was the electric fence and that didn't work for long..... The smaller of the two was a female she had pups (full milk bag) and was sssoooo skinny it broke my heart. The larger was a brindle and looked to be a pitt/boxer mix.
I called 911 and by the time the police arrived the two dogs were standing at our feet acting all innocent. I was able to get a phone number off the collar tag and called the owners - which happened to be our across the street neighbors
I didn't know that they had these pitts. Anyway I had the owner on the phone, the policewoman gave him a verbal warning. The young man wasn't at home so the policewoman went to their house and was able to get someone to come and get the dogs. The neighbor lady was very RUDE. She even semi threatened me with .... if your ponies ever get out... Well, they did once a long time ago, but my ponies weren't attacking her dogs
they were grazing on the side of the street and I apologized and got them back in the fence, repaired the fence, end of story.
The ONLY thing that the policewoman did was give them a verbal warning. No report was written
so there is actually no official record of our call other than the 911 log. I am going to call the police deparment this morning and complain about that AND call Animal Control.
Pitts are supposed to be kept behind a fence and/or chained -- it breakes my heart to think that these dogs will be chained up -- but we have a leash law and the dogs were threatening my livestock. I can only imagine what would have happened if one of the Yorkies had been outside with me.
People need to be more responsible pet owners.