If I had neighbors who own aggressive unsocialized pit bulls next door. A doggy door would be the last thing I would provide to make a disaster not only possible, but likely.
A shotgun would be my first investment.
No further comments would be useful. I am biting my tongue. It could have been worse.
“a doggy door would be the last thing I would provide...shotgun would be my first investment”
Seriously, how do you really protect your property from these attacks? How many barriers should we have?
The dogs came through a fence before they entered through the doggie door.
And the homeowner wasn’t home, so the shotgun would have been useless.
If the homeowner had been home, there would have been a worse tragedy, as most of us don’t think about sitting in our fenced back yard or our living room with a loaded shotgun.
One of the photos in the linked article on the Daily Mail shows a child’s potty chair covered in blood, from the dogs that were killed so obviously a small child lives in the home.
Yes, it could have been a LOT worse.
We have trouble with coyotes climbing fences around where I live in the California foothills. I am ever vigilant of my yard being secured and have high fences with spikes on top. Some neighbors are putting special coyote rollers on top of their fences to prevent them from climbing over — appreantly they can climb over 8-foot fences — to get at small dogs, cats, etc. in people’s yards.