[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by GO DAWG GO

My next door neighbor is a police officer who in the last year bought a German Shephard. He has been training it to guard his house because I suspect he feels threatened by some of the amigo's he has testified against in court. He stakes out train robbers for Union Pacific Railroad and busts the bad guys all the time.

Anyway- His dog reminds me of a salivating Alien from the movie "Aliens" on the otherside of the fense when I walk by to empty my trash at the side of just pass by, It looks and growls and rams the fense in a frenzy of aggression. It is apparent it would love to chew on me.

Approximatly, 6 months ago my neighbor was in his garage and his dog was out in the front of his house. I came home with my son and we began unloading and carrying in a large speaker box when this tyrannysaurus of a dog came out of know where and began growling and snapping at me when I was carrying the speaker. I yelled at the top of my lungs to my neighbor to get his damn dog away and he did.

A week of so later, the dog ran over and growled and barked at my wife and forced her back in the house.

Then a couple months ago the dog came after my golden retreiver when my wife was walking it and when she screamed, my neighbor called his dog off again.

My wife and I kindly told him that his dog is a problem and he needs to do something about it.

A few more episodes of it being loose and barking at me and my wife then-

Last Thursday, my wife was walking out to our car with my dog to pick my son up from school and my neigbors dog ran over and attacked my dog and bit her in the neck, My wife ran back to the house screaming with our dog and it chased her up to the front door. I immediately responded and ran out after it aggressively, so my wife could get inside.

I looked at it in the eye and screamed at it as loud as I could to try to scare it...I actually thought it was going to pounce on me too, so I ran inside. I ran around the back of the house and yelled at my neighbor with some profanity to get his forking dog off my front porch before it eats a 45 round.

I was pissed and so was my wife.

My dog received a few punctures wounds to the neck. Overnight, my dogs lymph nodes in here neck swelled to the size of hard boiled eggs. She was still bleeding and sick. We immediately took her to the vet and they placed drainage tubes coming out of her neck to drain the infection and gave us antibiotics to control the infection. they also put a cone/shroud on her neck so she cant disturb the tubes and is still notably distressed.

At the moment, we have about $300 bucks in vet bills. My wife talked to his wife and she said the dog was "just nipping no big deal" and she said she would have her husband come over and discuss the issue and the bill. Up till now, he hasnt bothered to show up.. He is going to try to just blow it off, I'm sure.

I want to be a good neighbor and sincerely try to understand why he has the beast to protect his family, but my wife and I are annoyed and done with it. The dog is truly a menace.

Part of me wants to tell him that I am afraid for the welfare of my family and dog and if it comes over in my yard in an aggressive manner I will indeed destroy his dog.

Any of you guys have a realistic idea of how to control this situation and get my money back. I dont want this to get out of hand because he is a cop and I will be the one in the clink..

Bob

Make a big deal out of it. Tell him you'll call the SPCA, or even the local news.

German shepards can be extremely dangerous.