Ok, so I live in a neighborhood that is "up and coming", but still pretty rough. Most people on my street are ok, but many still don't know how to treat dogs. If they are over 40 pounds, they are mostly chained in the backyards. Even in BAD weather.
The people next to me have 2 dogs. A really matted chow chow and a pit bull type dog chained up to sad looking dog houses in the backyard. I have never talked to them before. It's a granny and her kids and grankids in and out of there all the time. Their back yard looks like a junkyard threw up in it. I have seen them bring out food and water to the dogs.
I was out on the 2nd story of my deck this morning and noticed that the pit bull dog looks very thin. You can count all of his ribs. Also, he was busying himself this morning tearing out a section of their privacy fence. He had cleared a section as wide as he was, but he couldn't get through it because of the heavy chain he's on.
My question is, should I call Animal Control on them? A friend in the neighborhood told me that Animal Control is not very responsive anymore there cause most of the owners are stupid and mean to them when they show up. Also, I am afraid that even if I do it anonymously, they would still know it is me cause my 2nd story deck is the only way to look into their yard because of the privacy fence. However, if I call and say I was just a person walking down the alley behind the fence and looked in the hole from this morning, that might work. Also, there is a lesbian couple who lives on the corner 4 houses down and one of them just started working for Animal Control a week ago, maybe I could get her to go talk to Granny, they've lived in the neighborhood for 10 years and are very active in neighborhood activities, block parties, clean-ups, etc.
My concern in all this is retaliation. I am afraid they might screw up our cars, our house, or toss some poisoned meat over the fence for Guinness to eat if they thought it was us.
I just lost Bailey almost 2 months ago, I couldn't bear losing Guinness.
What do ya'll think I should do? Thanks in advance for your advice.
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