You all know about my neighbors that have the rottie mix male, rottie female, and weimeraner female that all had puppies, right? How they're usually loose and how the people can't even take care of themselves and their kids, let alone the dogs? Well, since April I've been contacting Animal Control about them (April 13, April 28, May 25, May 31, and June 6), and I got a call this morning from the officer that finally paid them a visit yesterday morning. In the meantime, between contacting them, the female rottie has become more and more brazen. We live two lots down from these people, but there are no houses between us, just the two empty lots, and I live on the opposite side of the street from them. My aunt lives directly beside them. It started out with the rottie (Keelah) charging and growling at us as we walked up the road to my aunt's house. We were always on the other side of the road, so she never really got too close. Then, she and the weimeraner were loose when we were up at my aunt's for my cousin's birthday party. I had Gypsy up there with me, and the two dogs came over and tried to start a fight with Gypsy in my aunt's driveway! My uncle took them back home, but they were loose again within 5 minutes. They also came into the garage and ripped into my aunt's dog and cat food bags and made a big mess.
Then, it progressed to Keelah being loose almost every day, getting into the trash, digging up flowerbeds, and advancing closer and closer to our property doing her growling and charging thing at us while we were in our own yard minding our own business. The closest she got was on Monday evening of this week. She got within 20 feet of the end of our driveway growling and jumping towards us when she would bark. I was on a ladder up in one of our trees trying to rig up something to keep the squirrels off the bird feeders (it works and it's SO funny!), and Gypsy was sitting over next to the fence wagging her tail. Just when I was considering going and getting my pepper spray, someone from her house hollered "Keelah, honey, come back this way, sweetie!" Of course Keelah ignored her and barked at me again. They yelled for her three more times before she finally turned and headed back up that way, but after a few steps, she turned back around and barked and jumped towards me again before trotting on back up to the house, as if she were saying "Yeah, you got off easy this time. Just wait until they aren't looking!"
Now, I have nothing against rotties, but this one is about to really tick me off. I will NOT have someone ELSE'S dog coming down to MY house and threatening me and my dog, who stay in our own yard. If she DOES end up in my yard, you can bet your behind that she'll disappear, either via a trip to the shelter in an Animal Control van, a trip to my trainer (who would take her in a heartbeat), or a trip to a breed rescue group. Her puppies should be about weaned by now, but they can always nurse from the weim, since she had puppies at the same time. It wouldn't bother me in the least to cart the rottie off someplace. I'd hesitate to call Animal Control to come and get her because then they might get her back, but on the same token, they would be sited for letting her run loose, fined for not having her spayed, and then they'd have to pay another fine on top of that to get her out of the shelter.
Anyway, the guy called this morning and told me he couldn't site them because the dogs were all contained when he got there, but if I could take some pictures and send him, THEN he could site them, so that's what I'm going to do.
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