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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
I can't believe how many of you spineless bastards suggest dealing with this in some way while still remaining anonymous. That's a large part of what is wrong with society these days. If you have a problem with the guy's dog, go talk to him about it, fer chrissakes. No anonymous notes. No anonymous complaints. No neighbor support groups. Man up an go talk to him like you have a pair.
I has a similar problem with a neighbor and his dog some years ago. He simply would not control his dog. It barked all night (chained up to the side of the house - no fence), ran free all day, crapped in everyone's yards, and was a general nuisance. I talked to him about the dog a couple of times. I finally told him if it shows up in my yard again, I would shoot it. He thought I was kidding. I wound up shooting his dog.
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I would say that in your case, you got lucky you didn't get arrested. I'm not into going off half-cocked, bad things can happen. Call me spineless for thinking things out. Whatever. You never know in this world who's psychotic enough to put a gun in your face.
Since I knew these were renters, I would try the "spineless bastard" way and have their landlord say something. Judging by their reaction, I decided that talking to them wasn't going to solve anything. See, the landlords have had other issues with them and their reaction was described as "offended and hostile". You just can't really effectively deal with that. Some people you just can't talk to, and threatening them is often far worse.
I'm no peaceknick hippy, but I'm not about to go to jail because of a dog.
Oh yea, almost forgot. I talked to one of the other neighbors this weekend about the dog and they had talked to the owners before I tried contact and they basically told the guy that they didn't care and they wouldn't keep the dog inside when they were gone. Nice folks eh?