I don't understand how that could possibly be considered as a civil matter when someone didn't have clear control over their dog. I would never in good conscience let my dog near other people if they weren't properly trained. Isn't it unlawful to own an aggressive dog after its attacked someone?

Thank you for telling me this, I'll try to check through his skin. It would honestly explain his incessant crying tonight.

My main issue is that, it's not a regular house. It's two acres of fence, and we don't have that kind of money to put two acres of new fences. That's thousands of dollars. I'm planning on patching the fence, since it's just a chain link fence, but there's not much I can do about the dogs barking war, I don't mind that they bark at each other, I have a problem when their dogs come to my land and assault my dogs and threaten me. It shouldn't be a lot of trouble to get them out the street, in fact, they're normally out on the street or chasing cars down. They always let their dogs run loose and about on the property. The owner has been knowingly letting their dogs come into and refuses to train the dog, instead he's been illegally caging them out in the sun and tying them to posts (also illegal). I'm issuing a last warning for his dogs, if his dogs come here again, I'm having animal control come in and take all of his dogs, which is over 6 dogs.I wouldn't mind if his dogs came by and just walked about. My problem is that they're aggressive. I'm calling AC tomorrow morning no doubt, but it's relieving to hear it's not illegal to have a hole in my face. As for the barn, the dogs climb onto the barn and jump onto the fence that they've bent out of proportion. Their dogs have done most of the damage on the fence, which frustrates me.

Moved from: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/664918-emergency-dog-attack/ I went outside with my three dogs and a stray we're gonna be taking to the Animal Shelter (AS), soon. Our neighbor's dogs have been coming in through a hole we couldn't find until today, and barking at our dogs. They hadn't attacked any of them until today, this is their second offense today. Earlier they tried killing the stray puppy we have in our grounds, but we managed to chase them out. We haven't pursued anything because we feel responsible since it's our fence, but today it crossed the line. Three of them, a chihuahua and two unknown breeds, possibly around 80 LBS, ran into our property when our dogs were peeing, I didn't realize at the time because I was petting the stray puppy, all of a sudden I heard barking and when I looked up. They were attacking Rocco, a German Shepherd puppy of about 8 months. Two of them were trying to get onto his neck to bite onto or his back, while the chihuahua ran away because it saw me coming in fast with a broom in my hand, and I was screaming to the top of my lungs "Get off my dog, get out of here". I managed to scare them off and they left my dog alone, Rocco was crying and the dogs retreated and I chased after them to find the hole. Now, the neighbor's known about the hole this entire time and hasn't even tried pointing it out or mentioning it. (I'm not the homeowner of the property I'm in, it's my mom's). I finally found the hole and when I got there the neighbor came out, like a smug jerk and I blew up at him. I think it was fair, he knew his dogs have been breaking into this property for over 7 years, never trained their dogs to stop or behave, has overly aggressive dogs who even bark at me, or threaten me, and none of them are collared or have had their shots. He threatened me, that he was gonna get his attorney, but his dogs come into my property and my dogs have NEVER gone into his property, because I'm always watching them. Luckily, since I arrived on time, Rocco wasn't seriously injured, just a lot of drool on his fur. Because, again, I reacted the second I heard a bark and went over there with intent to kill those dogs to protect my puppy. My dogs are not aggressive, they don't bark at other dogs unless they're barked at, and most of the time they just ignore it. They're very good boys, I'm not sure what to do at this point. Whose fault is it really? I threatened to call the cops, but I feel like I'm responsible because it's still my fence. But regardless of it being my fence or not, his dogs are poorly trained and poorly taken care of. I'm considering calling animal control and the police, but I really don't know what to do in this case. I just wanted to say, we haven't been on this property for those 7 years, the owner brought that out of his a**, because we haven't been here for that long at all. These surges of the dogs appearing have started since May, one of the holes is where his barn is and we have no way of getting to that fence, because it's his and the other hand, the hole we found, looks like it was caused by the dogs, because it's bent upwards, and it's not missing the portion. I don't mind fixing the fence, I just didn't know where they were coming from until now, because not only did we have a fence, but we had trees lined up all the way across the fence. And I repeat. > His dogs are not vaccinated and do not have collars or rabies tags (which is illegal in my state, all dogs must be vaccinated and wearing proper ID) > His dogs are coming into my property through a means we can't reach and he refuses to patch > I have no problem fixing the fence, it wont take much out of me > He is threatening to sue me, because his dogs are coming into my property and attacking my dogs > We have a stand your ground law in my state, that includes any trespassers will be killed. (Including dogs) > The owner refuses to train his dogs and believes the fault is completely on my end (even though my dogs do NOT instigate and NEVER cross over to their yard) I have a huge feeling that even if I were to fix the fence, that dogs would still come in through the owner's barn. In that case, what am I supposed to do if he refuses to patch up the fence? I don't have money to go to an attorney.

I just wanted to say, we haven't been on this property for those 7 years, the owner brought that out of his a**, because we haven't been here for that long at all. These surges of the dogs appearing have started since May, one of the holes is where his barn is and we have no way of getting to that fence, because it's his and the other hand, the hole we found, looks like it was caused by the dogs, because it's bent upwards, and it's not missing the portion. I don't mind fixing the fence, I just didn't know where they were coming from until now, because not only did we have a fence, but we had trees lined up all the way across the fence. And I repeat. > His dogs are not vaccinated and do not have collars or rabies tags (which is illegal in my state, all dogs must be vaccinated and wearing proper ID) > His dogs are coming into my property through a means we can't reach and he refuses to patch > I have no problem fixing the fence, it wont take much out of me > He is threatening to sue me, because his dogs are coming into my property and attacking my dogs > We have a stand your ground law in my state, that includes any trespassers will be killed. (Including dogs) > The owner refuses to train his dogs and believes the fault is completely on my end (even though my dogs do NOT instigate and NEVER cross over to their yard) I have a huge feeling that even if I were to fix the fence, that dogs would still come in through the owner's barn. In that case, what am I supposed to do if he refuses to patch up the fence? I don't have money to go to an attorney.

I went outside with my three dogs and a stray we're gonna be taking to the Animal Shelter (AS), soon. Our neighbor's dogs have been coming in through a hole we couldn't find until today, and barking at our dogs. They hadn't attacked any of them until today, this is their second offense today. Earlier they tried killing the stray puppy we have in our grounds, but we managed to chase them out. We haven't pursued anything because we feel responsible since it's our fence, but today it crossed the line. Three of them, a chihuahua and two unknown breeds, possibly around 80 LBS, ran into our property when our dogs were peeing, I didn't realize at the time because I was petting the stray puppy, all of a sudden I heard barking and when I looked up. They were attacking Rocco, a German Shepherd puppy of about 8 months. Two of them were trying to get onto his neck to bite onto or his back, while the chihuahua ran away because it saw me coming in fast with a broom in my hand, and I was screaming to the top of my lungs "Get off my dog, get out of here". I managed to scare them off and they left my dog alone, Rocco was crying and the dogs retreated and I chased after them to find the hole. Now, the neighbor's known about the hole this entire time and hasn't even tried pointing it out or mentioning it. (I'm not the homeowner of the property I'm in, it's my mom's). I finally found the hole and when I got there the neighbor came out, like a smug jerk and I blew up at him. I think it was fair, he knew his dogs have been breaking into this property for over 7 years, never trained their dogs to stop or behave, has overly aggressive dogs who even bark at me, or threaten me, and none of them are collared or have had their shots. He threatened me, that he was gonna get his attorney, but his dogs come into my property and my dogs have NEVER gone into his property, because I'm always watching them. Luckily, since I arrived on time, Rocco wasn't seriously injured, just a lot of drool on his fur. Because, again, I reacted the second I heard a bark and went over there with intent to kill those dogs to protect my puppy. My dogs are not aggressive, they don't bark at other dogs unless they're barked at, and most of the time they just ignore it. They're very good boys, I'm not sure what to do at this point. Whose fault is it really? I threatened to call the cops, but I feel like I'm responsible because it's still my fence. But regardless of it being my fence or not, his dogs are poorly trained and poorly taken care of. I'm considering calling animal control and the police, but I really don't know what to do in this case.