You know what really grinds my gears?

[AUChase]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

You're a better man than me. If a dog attacked my kids because of owner negligence I probably jump off the deep end.

Have you let your HOA know? It might not help in terms of immediate results but it would cover the spectrum for good documentation....Police Report, text messages, etc...

Good luck! Hope your family stays safe

We fall outside the HOA somehow. Deed to my house list it as part of the “Estates” (it’s really not fancy) and my backyard is adjacent to the subdivision, but I don’t actually live in it.

[Speedy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

We fall outside the HOA somehow. Deed to my house list it as part of the “Estates” (it’s really not fancy) and my backyard is adjacent to the subdivision, but I don’t actually live in it.

Do you still pay HOA dues?

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[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

You're a better man than me. If a dog attacked my kids because of owner negligence I probably jump off the deep end.

Have you let your HOA know? It might not help in terms of immediate results but it would cover the spectrum for good documentation....Police Report, text messages, etc...

Good luck! Hope your family stays safe

I reluctantly agreed to serve on the board of my HOA a couple years ago.

Unfortunately, there isn't much an HOA could do other than to send a "letter."

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

bit of a follow up

It's long and incoherent too so I spoilered it.

Spoiler

Last Tuesday my wife texted me that my neighbor's dog came into our yard and started growling at her and my 3yo son. She scooped him up and put him on the back porch and then rushed our dog to the porch too and closed the door. The dog was standing at the top of some rock steps that lead out of our porch and into the upper back yard. So apparently I missed a spot in the corner of our yard that's covered by trees and bush when I was mending the fence. The problem is the neighbor has already told me he's working on a fence or some other provisions and I saw where he was doing some goofy **** with some boards along the fence.

So the dog apparently burrowed it's way under the fence in the corner we couldn't see and had access to our yard again. Bear in mind this is our fence.. not theirs. It keeps our dog in just fine and it's not my responsibility to keep their dog out. I'll try, but it's not my dog.

So I text the guy furious sending him a picture of the dog in my yard asking him to fix it ASAP. He apologizes again and my wife said he came home from work and got his dog in the house. He sends me another message apologizing and saying he will fix a privacy fence or chain the dog up. I don't think you should own a dog if you have to keep it chained up and IMO it would just make the dog more aggressive in the event that it ever gets loose, but it's not my dog.

Last night I went to bed early because I've been sick. My wife and her friend were up in the house still and I got woke from sleeping to a crazy amount of commotion going on so I jumped up in a panic and ran out of the bedroom and my wife came storming back in the house telling me to go talk to our neighbor now because their dog broke into our yard AGAIN and was on our back porch attacking our dog. She has some cuts and puncture wounds that will likely heal and just need some antiseptic spray, but it could have been worse if we weren't home.

I was ****ing furious. I put on my shoes and went to go to their house and I saw yet again he was gone (it's like he just leaves and lets his dogs do whatever) and just his girlfriend was home. She's ****ing stupid as it is and lets them bark for hours at a time in the middle of the night so I didn't want to talk to her. So I sent him messages showing him my dog's wounds and told him that it won't happen again. Like it absolutely will not happen again and my wife called the PD to ask for the animal control officer on duty.

The first guy that came out to see us responded along with a Sergeant on duty and the patrolling officer in our neighborhood so it looked like we were being raided by the police. I explained what happened and told the guy if I catch his dog in my yard I'm shooting it. This is the third time it's happened and he keep saying he will fix it and clearly doesn't respect us enough to do anything about it. So they all go over and talk to the girlfriend and explain that they are responsible for the vet bills and that if they don't want to do that then we could take them to civil court and they would likely lose because we have police reports and text evidence/pictures to show our side of the story. They came back and explained to us that the next time they come out they are going to put the case in front of a judge and try to enforce "Emily's Law." where the dog has to be confined to a concrete slab with roof, fence, etc. and if it comes out it has to be muzzled. If it gets out and they can't control it then the owners will be taken to jail.

I LOVE dogs. I get that dogs have natural instincts, but I need these people to be good owners. If you have to chain a dog up or contain it to a 12x16 fence then you don't need it. The dog has just tasted blood at this point and will keep acting over and over. What makes me even more frustrated is the neighbors haven't come to talk to us even once. If my dog was attacking neighbors I would be a ****ing man about it and go talk to them in person and then make it right.

I told my wife I'm not going to live where I can't trust letting my kids out into my fenced in backyard or where I have to lock my dog on the porch at night or when I leave for work because my neighbors can't control theirs. I'm also a little frustrated with the PD because while they have been responsive and nice about it how many times do I have to complain for something to actually be ****ing done? The guy told me he hasn't even finished the first incident report from a few weeks ago.

Man, that sucks. Unfortunately some people just don't bother to properly train and socialize their dogs and allow them to become problems. Hopefully it gets resolved before your dog or one of your kids gets hurt. Does he keep getting in in roughly the same area or are their different areas? Perhaps you could pound some metal stakes into the ground or bury some cinderblocks as a deterrant.

This all kind of reminds me of an incident involving one of my sister's dogs. She has a 100+ Cane Corso and a mixed breed who is a similar size. One day her then boyfriend now fiancee had come over during the afternoon to let the dogs our while my sister was at work. The house she lived in at the time didn't have a fenced in yard and she only had 1 leader so the dogs had to be let out one at a time. Well, while my sister's boyfriend was letting the Cane Corso out, one of her neighbors had a friend or relative over who had brought their dog which I think was a Pug or other smaller breed and they had it out in their backyard unleashed and it came charging at my sister's dog who proceeded to grab it by the neck and not let go. My sister's boyfriend was apparently punching her dog in the head trying to get him to let go which he finally did. Both dogs were fine and hopefully the smaller dog learned a lesson about charging dogs more than 2x its size. My sister's dog is protective (as Can Corso's are supposed to be) but otherwise very friendly.

[KG]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I reluctantly agreed to serve on the board of my HOA a couple years ago.



Unfortunately, there isn't much an HOA could do other than to send a "letter."

Oh believe me I know, my HOA sucks but if he goes to civil court it won’t hurt to have every bit of documentation he can get his hands on.


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[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Small dogs don't know any better, it's in their DNA to be aggressive and try to act bigger than they are. If they're isolated they have a complex and need to act big as their only line of defense. If they're in a group they need to yap and be the alert dogs to sound the alarm.

I remember taking my little shih tzu out in the yard when I lived at a duplex and the other resident came out with a big *** dog, unleashed (of course), and she ran right up on my little guy and I had to yank her collar and hold her back before she had the chance to do some damage.

Guy didn't even apologize. Although the landlord told us they said they were afraid to grab her the way I did in fear of getting chomped, which led me to ask why the hell they didn't have her on a leash in the first place.

You're gonna walk outside with a dangerous unleashed dog, that YOU yourself are afraid of wrangling, and you know you neighbor in a duplex has a little 9 lb shih tzu? Seriously?

They also complained because I only shoveled my side of the driveway and sidewalk, ugh some people

[AUChase]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Do you still pay HOA dues?

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We've been here about 10 months now and haven't been approached or talked to by anyone about anything. I'm fine with that though HOA are a pain. When we purchased the house I asked about it since my fence meets up in the back with the subdivision and they told us it's not part of it. It's confusing when you look at the deed. I've had the property surveyed and marked before buying it too. I figured if we were part of anything it would have been outlined somewhere when we bought the house.


Little extra: My brother-in-law used to lead the "Critical Incident Response Team" aka SWAT team so we asked him for some clarification about the laws and he said the Animal Control officer we're working with is an upstanding guy who takes his job very seriously and follows the laws by the book so I don't doubt he's doing what he can, but it just sucks having them come to your house twice and you're still in the boat where you have to trust someone who hasn't done the right thing yet. Our dog just isn't an aggressive dog.. she's super passive even though she barks a bit. I'm perfectly fine with that though. I wouldn't want an aggressive dog with kids and in the city.

Anyways.. I think we're just going to build our own privacy fence inside of our chain link fence at least on one side for now. I told my wife we'll build a damn fortress with 8 ft tall pickets if the city allows it lol. I'm just kind of to the point where I don't even want to see their yard or house or anything from my back yard.

The neighbors have been closing their garage doors at night for the first time since we moved in. I think that's where they are keeping their dog at night.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Small dogs don't know any better, it's in their DNA to be aggressive and try to act bigger than they are. If they're isolated they have a complex and need to act big as their only line of defense. If they're in a group they need to yap and be the alert dogs to sound the alarm.

This is generally true, but in the case of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, that's a big "Nuh uh." That's why I love my little Olivia so much. She won't bark at anything, and in fact she is rather shy in every instance.

[dsallupinyaarea]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Social media accounts for every brand/company/sports team trying to be cool with the memes, internet meme lingo and the same damn emojis.

Lol what exactly are you expecting to get when you head over to Wendy's Twitter feed? Quarterly fiscal reports??

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[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Waking up over an hour before the time you actually need to wake up for.

Don't want to stay awake and be tired during the day, especially later part, but also don't want to go back to sleep incase I over sleep.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Waking up over an hour before the time you actually need to wake up for.

Don't want to stay awake and be tired during the day, especially later part, but also don't want to go back to sleep incase I over sleep.

I would argue that's a pleasure of life, waking up early, looking at the clock, realizing you still have an hour+ before you need to get up, that's a good feeling

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I would argue that's a pleasure of life, waking up early, looking at the clock, realizing you still have an hour+ before you need to get up, that's a good feeling

Best feeling for me.

I just hate the times when I say "I have an hour left," and about when I blink the alarm goes off. Where the hell did my hour go???

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I would argue that's a pleasure of life, waking up early, looking at the clock, realizing you still have an hour+ before you need to get up, that's a good feeling

I just hate the times when I say "I have an hour left," and about when I blink the alarm goes off. Where the hell did my hour go???

That's more what I meant. Those moments when waking up early doesn't benefit you.

Waking up at some time like 6am on a weekend when you weren't planning on waking up until 9am, that's a better feeling because you can go back to sleep not having to worry about waking up a specific time afterwards.

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Falling asleep after dinner, especially with things to to later that night.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Falling asleep after dinner, especially with things to to later that night.

I've been trying to walk after eating, apparently it's good for digestion and blood sugar

No clue if it's true but the more steps I take the less my upper back hurts so I keep it up