I talked to my neighbor when this thread was started, because acoss the street from her the people were BYB of Pekinese (2 females, 2males) and their son had just moved back home with a pitbull puppy. I told her to warn them not to trust the dog around the smaller dogs. She insisted he was of good temperment and the old arguement of ' it's how they are raised' ensued for weeks, until we just agreed to disagree.
Last week, my neighbor informed me that the one breeding female had passed away, and for unknown reasons the pittie had grabbed the smaller male Peke (kept as a pet) by the neck and had locked on. She doesn't know how they were able to get him off the smaller dog, only that they finally got him off, and that the smaller dog seemed to be okay.
When my other neighbor first moved in with his Pitbull, his dog had an altercation with another neighbor's Rottie. Weeks later, the other neighbor was in his truck, Rottie in the middle, with his young son in the passenger's seat. My neighbor, who always let his dog out of the house off-leash if he was with him, came out of his house and didn't even get off the porch when his Pittie spyed the Rottie in the truck and took off. He reached the truck, jumped and flew through the window, overtop of the young boy, at the Rottie. Don't know what happened, other than charges were pressed for endangering the child, then my neighbor had his Pittie PTS under court order.
And I don't get this either: this neighbor comes up and moves my fence back and forth, and says gee I'm worried about one of your dogs getting hurt. This fence is weak. I said " It's strong enough to hold my dogs, if it's not strong enough to hold yours, maybe you should consider putting up your own fence." "Well two fences would look silly." I said "No sillier than a 6 ft fence for Yorkies!"
I've told them numerous times about the leash laws in this county. They choose to ignore them and me. When will people stop being stupid? I've even told them if one of my dogs gets hurt by one of their dogs, it's going to be their fault, and I'm glad I like their house, bc I will own it. My dogs are always on leash when we leave the yard, always.
Oh and I almost forgot. I was walking two of my dogs past their house one day, and their nice little Pittie, who has never been fought, and raised in a gentle, loving environment, came flying out of the second story bedroom window, through the screen, hit the sidewalk on all fours, and came running at us, dead on.
You just never really know with these dogs... |