What can I do about my neighbor's aggressive dog?

[ShowGirlLola]

Originally Posted by lillymae

Is there a leash law in your city ? If yes, IF the dog is not confined to its house or yard safely, even in it's own front yard if it's NOT leashed/tied or behind a fence, it's considered to be breaking the leash law in MOST cities. You can go talk to someone at the Police Dept about what the law is, make them look it up for you & print it out.

My town does have a leash law, I looked it up on the website.

unlawful for any person owning a dog to permit such dog at any time to be in or upon any public street or in or upon any public place or upon the lands of any person without the consent of the owner of such lands or to permit such dog at any time to run at large in the town unless such dog shall be led by a leash in the hands of a person capable of leading and controlling such dog. Any such dog which shall be in violation of this subsection may be taken into custody and impounded and thereafter redeemed or destroyed

It sounds like it's allowed to be without a leash on the owner's property, but I'm not sure what the sentence in bold means.

[Princes mom]

It's a shame for anyone to have to go through what you are going through because of irresponsible pet owners. I went through a similar situation years ago with a pit, and rotti. After several calls to the police, three court cases and weeks...months of worry, I put my house on the market, and moved. My son was six then, and I was not going to take a chance of having him hurt. I had less than 10 years left on my mortgage before my house would have been paid off, but I couldn't risk my son's safety, nor mine. Even FedEx was afraid to get out of their vehicle to leave packages. The yard with the dogs was fenced in, but the dogs could climb the fence within seconds, so it was worthless. I was way beyond caring about those neighbors knowing that it was me calling the police. They knew it was me when I took them to court, and they ended up having to pay hefty fines. Good luck to you!

[ShowGirlLola]

Princes mom- Wow that's terrible, this situation isn't that bad because the owner is at work a lot, so the dog is inside unless my next door neighbor gets him. The biggest issue is I have no idea when he's home or the dog's out.

This is actually the 2th time I've had to deal with a nasty dog. The first was a dog my other next door neighbor had when I was little. I'm not sure what breed it was but it was huge and nasty, that dog is the reason why we have the privacy fence. It was kept in a chain link fenced yard but it could have easily jumped or climbed the fence.