Scooby4
02-14-2005, 01:34 PM
My father gave me a dog a few months back. It is a full grown border collie that he and his wife found wandering around. They couldn't find the owners and kept her. My father was unable to keep her since moving to a house without a fence. She had to be pinned up but he took her for walks everyday.
I have a fenced in yard and took her in. That is when the problems started. I already had 3 dogs. My neighbor has 3 yippee poms. My fence was chain link and the neighbor's dogs would bark at my dogs and chase up and down the fence. My dogs would bark for a minute then walk away. My neighbor never reprimanded his dogs from barking and antagonizing my dogs.
The neighbor then gets the idea that it is my dogs that barked too much and were a nuisance. He threatened and harassed me to get rid of my dogs! Even got a nuisance order on me while I was out of town. My dogs were being watched by a registered animal control officer and the City's control officer is our direct neighbor. BOTH testified to me that my dogs did not bark and were very well-behaved. All the police officers who were called out fell in-love with my dogs and commented how good they were.
I put up a privacy fence between us. I let the original chain link fence stay even though legally it was on my side. He had stolen about 5 feet of my property and claimed the fence was his which wasn't. The homeowner prior had put it up. I just knew if I took that fence down it could hurt his dogs because he is too lazy to rebuild another fence.
In our struggle, I discovered the reason for this sudden attack by my neighbor. Turns out he is petrified of large dogs! A former owner of my house had a large Rotweiler. He'd had reported that owner repeatedly as well. Eventually, the homeowner moved across the street to avoid confrontation.
Benji is a sweet dog that wouldn't even hurt a flea! She is twice the size of my other dogs. She isn't alpha dog and is scared of the cat. I've even seen my neighbor pet her and right in front of the police officer! His fear of big dogs even affects his son who was scared of Benji at first.
Because of all of this, she has developed strange behaviors. She is scared to go out when she used to love to. I practically have to push her out the door at times. She has been going to the bathroom in the house. She is even more timid and shy than usual. She doesn't obey well. I don't think the neighbor has done anything to her. It has gotten to the point where I want to put her up for adoption. I feel it would be in her best interest. Am I a bad parent because of this?
PS. I love Pom's and Rotty's. Don't want you Rotty and Pom owners bombarding me! ;)
I have a fenced in yard and took her in. That is when the problems started. I already had 3 dogs. My neighbor has 3 yippee poms. My fence was chain link and the neighbor's dogs would bark at my dogs and chase up and down the fence. My dogs would bark for a minute then walk away. My neighbor never reprimanded his dogs from barking and antagonizing my dogs.
The neighbor then gets the idea that it is my dogs that barked too much and were a nuisance. He threatened and harassed me to get rid of my dogs! Even got a nuisance order on me while I was out of town. My dogs were being watched by a registered animal control officer and the City's control officer is our direct neighbor. BOTH testified to me that my dogs did not bark and were very well-behaved. All the police officers who were called out fell in-love with my dogs and commented how good they were.
I put up a privacy fence between us. I let the original chain link fence stay even though legally it was on my side. He had stolen about 5 feet of my property and claimed the fence was his which wasn't. The homeowner prior had put it up. I just knew if I took that fence down it could hurt his dogs because he is too lazy to rebuild another fence.
In our struggle, I discovered the reason for this sudden attack by my neighbor. Turns out he is petrified of large dogs! A former owner of my house had a large Rotweiler. He'd had reported that owner repeatedly as well. Eventually, the homeowner moved across the street to avoid confrontation.
Benji is a sweet dog that wouldn't even hurt a flea! She is twice the size of my other dogs. She isn't alpha dog and is scared of the cat. I've even seen my neighbor pet her and right in front of the police officer! His fear of big dogs even affects his son who was scared of Benji at first.
Because of all of this, she has developed strange behaviors. She is scared to go out when she used to love to. I practically have to push her out the door at times. She has been going to the bathroom in the house. She is even more timid and shy than usual. She doesn't obey well. I don't think the neighbor has done anything to her. It has gotten to the point where I want to put her up for adoption. I feel it would be in her best interest. Am I a bad parent because of this?
PS. I love Pom's and Rotty's. Don't want you Rotty and Pom owners bombarding me! ;)