I am so very sorry for both of your losses. I know you must be devestated to have had experienced this tragic loss twice. I, too live in a rural area - we have leash laws that require the breeds that are classified as "dangerous" be kept in a 6' fence and/or chained. I hope you persue legal action against the neighbors. It won't bring your precious Davinci back, but perhaps it will prevent someone else from suffering a similar loss.
I know how I felt when the neighbor's two pit mixes were attacking my miniature horses. We called animal control and what we found was that we were fully within our legal right to shoot the dogs if we or our property was in danger. To be honest, we would have shot the pits, however anytime my son had a clear bead on the dogs, the horses weren't in any immediate danger -- hence the delima. The owners did come and retrieve the pits and we haven't seen them again.
Thank you for sharing your tragedy with your YT family. I think we can all use this as a reminder to be more viligent with our little ones -- it seems like danger lurks everywhere -- whether it is a neighbor's dog that attacks, or a hawk, or a coyote. |