Thread: Neighbor's Pit Bulls

Puppies dig so it might be because they're young and will get over it. Confront the neighbor. If it continues then call Animal Control -- assuming you're in Irving, then here is their website.

Originally Posted by commiecat

Puppies dig so it might be because they're young and will get over it. Confront the neighbor. If it continues then call Animal Control -- assuming you're in Irving, then here is their website.

We have tried talking to the neighbor, several times.

City of Ft. Worth just arrested someone for not keeping their animals in their own yard. Irving's animal control won't even come out unless we have the animal trapped. I don't understand. I even have video of the dogs going under the fence.

Originally Posted by Crotalus

We have tried talking to the neighbor, several times.

City of Ft. Worth just arrested someone for not keeping their animals in their own yard. Irving's animal control won't even come out unless we have the animal trapped. I don't understand. I even have video of the dogs going under the fence.

Go to your local newspaper/TV news with your video and any other documentation you may have. Tell them what animal control said, and what the local police said. That might light a fire under their feet.

It seems that in the majority of dog attack cases, the owners seem to read from the same script. "I can't believe it, Spot has never been aggressive"! I have owned a Staffordshire Terrier, and two English Bull Terriers in the past. Yeah, big babies. Dog's are a reflection of the owner and care, or lack of, that they have been given.

You need to do something about the dogs. If you or your wife are in any kind of fear at all, things must change. The worst of things happens too often, a child is mauled. Who's fault? The youngster who sees the cute doggie? The parents for not having said child on a leash? Or the dog, that mauled the kid? The dog owners? However you slice it, it sucks for the kid. I got dog bit as a kid, the dog, Torpedo, kept licking my face as I sat on the lawn with some other kids playing a game. I pushed him away, and he nailed me, put a fang through my cheek, face cheek, such that I could blow air through it. He was a good dog, till he bit a kid a few houses down. No more Torpedo. Just last Summer, a friends grandson got tore up pretty bad, he was not doing anything wrong. This one really pissed me off, because the kid is totally blind. I can't imagine the terror of not being able to see and have a dog eating your face and neck. The kids fine, a little surgery, but fine. AND, for some reason that I can't explain, he still likes to pet dogs!!

Anyway, please find something you can do. There's one thing I can think of that even a knot head owner will pay attention to. Draw up a contract, nothing too fancy, but leave no loopholes, that provides a very large sum of MONEY to whomever may be attacked by said dogs in the future. Have them sign it, pay the five bucks to have it notorized. Give them a copy. You don't have to have a lawyer do it, just make sure it's written well. If they don't sign, inform the athorities and let them know what you've done. Then ask for their help, because they have just seen that you have tried to take action, THEY are now aware of a potential problem, and now could be liable should something happen. I've noticed over the years, people will talk a big game, till you have something on paper.

What the hell, it's worth a try.


If you don't want to go that route, just let the dog dig under the fence into your yard, once he's on your land, waste them.

Please let us know what you come up with, donv

Just tie the dog down and shave it. You know you want to!