Signs of an aggressive dog?

[Martoch]

Ahhh...air horn, good idea!

 

[Carolyn]

I agree it sucks that you can't let your kids out because of stupid owners and unruly roaming dogs. What an intolerable situation. What did you do when the roaming dog was in your yard?

I'm sorry but I would have taken to it with anything I had in my hands, even if that was a huge plank of wood. Put the hose on high squirt anything. I don't advocate cruelty to animals in any form, but if it comes to protecting my kids, skin and fur then the enemy comes last.

I really do feel for you, and understand how restricted you are being on a military base. I can't for the life of me see how they can justify saying, we can't act until the dog bites. They should be removing them before that has a chance to happen.

What exactly are your leash laws if any? Sorry for ranting, its just so many different countries with different laws, yet the world over dogs are dogs It's just a shocker

 

[Amstaffer]

Have you tried contacting their superior officer? Might help.....

 

[moo]

Our yard is nothing.......we had a big roaming dog come in our house over the holidays. Right in our house!!!

 

[casablanca1]

The problem is that we live on a military base, so we can't just call the "dog catchers" to come pick up the loose dogs. We call security forces (the base police) and they always tell us to call PAWS (Panhandle Animal Welfare Society) because they handle the off-base calls and have a contract to do the same on base. However, they're about 15 minutes away from the base and will only respond if the dog is being aggressive or has already decided to bite someone... Our kids are going to ride their bikes...I'm going to pursue this loose dog issue up to the top if that's what it takes. If that doesn't work, I'll start rounding the dogs up myself and dropping them off at the kennel as suggested.

Good for you. Local authorities always try to pass the buck on animal control, and it's a mistake. Pursuing it will irritate your officials, but it's in the best interests of your whole community. Try talking to other people in your area, especially those with small children or pets, and get them to join you in calling, writing, etc. One persistent person might be written off as a crank, while a group of people has a better chance of being listened to.

 

[Ratboy]

Our yard is nothing.......we had a big roaming dog come in our house over the holidays. Right in our house!!!

LOL, this happened to me twice, scared the crap out of me the first time. I was living in Las Vegas and it was a nice warm winter day, about 50 degrees and I thought I would leave the door open and let my 5 and 6 month old pups (long gone now) go in and out of the yard as they wanted to.

I was in my bedroom and I hear a lot of yapping and stuff. I look outside and see my two pups in the yard looking at the house, but don't see anything else. I go back to what I was doing and suddenly, this huge Lab/Shepherd mix jumps up onto my bed and just looks at me. It startled me, but after I calmed down, I rubbed his huge head and he started "talking" and then I checked his tags and they said he was from Baldwin Park, CA. We had just gotten new neighbors that had come from LA and so I put a leash on him and walked him over there. I was right, he was their dog, and he was a roamer and an escape artist.

Over the next five years, Oscar was a frequent guest, both invited, and uninvited. But I had another mystery guest. One night, after I put in a doggie door, I was asleep with both dogs in bed with me, and heard water being drunk out of the bowl. I figured it was Oscar, and called him. No Oscar. I sent my dogs to "Get Oscar" and they go out and nobody comes back. No barking or anything, just a lot of happy huffing and tails hitting the wall noises. I walked out there and was totally shocked to see another neighbor's huge Chocolate Lab/?? mix eating all the food out of my dog's dishes. I never thought she could have jumped the fence or made it through the doggie door, since she was about 150 pounds easy. The little girl she lived with used to ride her, they had a saddle and everything. Those were the only two uninvited visitors I ever had.

My dogs and Oscar got along great and it was nice to have a place to leave my dogs if I wanted to go out of town. I would give the neighbors 20 bucks to keep Joe and Blackie over a weekend, and they even got a bath. Oscar stayed home as long as he had other dogs to play with. Later on, as Oscar's health began to fail at 13, they got a pup Spike that appeared to be a purebred Dobe, but ended up much heavier in build than any Dobe I ever saw. Oscar and him got along great from day one, but sadly, Joe and the new dog had issues starting as soon as he got to roughly the same size as Joe. He kept growing and growing, and at 125 pounds and rock hard, we couldn't let them get together at all as Joe would not tolerate his trying to dominate him, and we didn't want it to get ugly. I moved back to Ohio soon after that. I kept in touch with the neighbor's and they said Spike lived to almost 16, and was in good shape until the last 6 months, when he just started sleeping more and more, and he just never woke up one morning.