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Dog Days
Not the actual dog in question, but not too far either...
My neighbour has many qualities (I imagine...) but he has one huge shortcoming: he is a shit-bad dog owner.
So, for the 4th time this year, my neighbour's dog has defended his territory ON MY LAND. This time my girls were with me, so I lost it.
Our lands border each other for 3000 feet. Most of it wooded but his immediate backyard (which is not very big) borders an empty portion of mine. His dog has decided that my big epty piece of land is his terrotory and defends it with energy. It REALLY doesn't help that this dog is a breed that has the ability to kill an adult; it doesn't help that there is no fencing between my land and his land; it doesn't help that this dog is never leashed during the weekend because my neighbour thinks that just because he (the owner) is outside 1000 feet away in a backhoe, that he controls his dog via a combination of telepathy and telekenesis...
The girls wanted to play in the trees near my barn, and this is exactly the area that the dog will cross our ditch and come defend. So, I offered to escort the girls to the trees so that they would see that the dog is not there and they would be safe. Well, the dog was hiding on the other side of my neighbours house and came running as soon as we were in the vicinity and sure enough he jumped the ditch to my side. I went forward to meet the dog, staying between it and my girls. I screamed at the dog at the top of my lungs for it to get back to its side. At this point, I am roughly 35 feet from my neighbour's back porch (yes, the ditch is that close to his porch).
The dog, which had been barking and growling at me non-stop, jumped back to his side.
The girls went back inside the house and my yougest pretty much refuses to use the backyard now. I can't go to my barn without getting stalked by that dog. I can't even mow that part of my land because he's attacked me while I was on my lawn tractor, and this, IN FRONT OF MY NEIGHBOUR. "Bad dog!" .... Right.
All this to say that when the girls were back inside, I just walked to my neighbour (who was 2 lots further away because he is building himself a new house) and told him in no uncertain terms to tie his dog down. I then immediatly left. To his credit he immediatly went to tie his dog down.
It is now Sunday morning. The neighbour is out of his house, in his "shed" (which is bigger than his house) about 500 feet away from his dog, who is again uncontolled and un-leashed. The dog has decided that this morning he will go and crap in the opposite neighbour's
backyard. That neighbour has pretty much decided to stay in his house 24-7 as I know he has kids but I never see them.
Anyone has a paintball gun I can borrow ?
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I didn't give anyone's identity away!
Although I did X out the company name in a previous post.
Must have been out of embarrassment.
Just as we don't use everyone's names, we also avoid mentioning where they work. I just also happen to be the one who does the editing. I would have corrected it on anyone's reference. Don't push your job's inadequacies onto me.
If I caused any offense, I really didn't mean any by those comments.
My sarcasm is easily lost in a text based medium like this. I will try to reduce it.
I did not delete a story from you nor a comment from you.
Options:
1) Call bylaw officer (or cops even)
2) Use Rat poison around barn (watch out for your kitties though, but not your neighbor)
3) Get a BFG-9000 from Doom.
I also mentioned a note about how that guy ran over Blackwalt's tools and almost flipped his dirt bike in front of everyone back in 2001.
All your problems can go away...
Just remember, when I come knocking I expect payment.
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/paintball-turret/Overview.aspx
or
Airsoft instead of paintball.
http://www.hobbytron.com/AirsoftP90.html
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=44958&cat=2,2280,33159
Works great on deer.
Will rat poison work on a dog?
Just saying
Get to know them.
I had a similar problem with a neighbor, and his TWO dogs. It was mostly a poop problem. They'd clean up about once a week. And in the meantime dog poop smell wafted to my backyard. This, right after I plunked a huge chunk of cash on a new terrazo.
Turns out the bylaw over here says: Dog poops - owner must clean up IMMEDIATELY.
Fortunately, I have better dog owners than Q*bert, they shaped up. It also helped that they seemed to have got rid of the bigger dog, which had a tendency to growl at everyone.
(Less poop, no more growling)
Back to Q*Bert's troubles -- Hope you're keeping a diary of the incident, in case things go sour and you end up in court. A couple of videos help too.
... as for the Internet Tough Guy suggestions -- Cattle prod.
Is the owner has to want to obey them.
So my Internet Tough Guy solution: pepper spray.
This particular neighbour is in "the Family" so is not too interested in bylaws.