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I hope you don’t live in a neighborhood like mine. I live in a close-knit residential neighborhood where people walk in the evenings and all the kids play with one another outside. One house in my neighborhood has pitbulls in their yard.
That house is avoided by everyone in the neighborhood. The kids are not allowed to even walk down that cal-de-sac. Everyone talks about that house and the fear of those dogs. We have a nice, quiet neighborhood where people leave their doors unlocked. But I, like everyone else, have a 9mm handy, just for those dogs.
It just creates tension and uneasiness for the neighbors around you. Maybe you have no neighbors, I don’t know. I am just telling you how they impact my neighborhood.

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I hope you don’t live in a neighborhood like mine. I live in a close-knit residential neighborhood where people walk in the evenings and all the kids play with one another outside.

I'm a law-abiding career military officer and so is my wife. I maintain my yard and house and am always respectful towards my neighbors. My trained and socialized dogs are house dogs which only appear outside when either in my fenced backyard (with me present), or on a leash.

Why would you hope that I not live in a neighborhood like yours? I grew up in such a neighborhood and my parents (a retired law enforcement officer and a retired teacher) still live there. I've never been viewed as some sort of menace.

I am sorry about the house that you mentioned. Are the dogs loose or behind a small fence that they can jump? Do the dogs behave in a vicious manner? If so, then that's not a good situation at all. Some people simply shouldn't own dogs.