Posted on 12/29/2008 9:26:30 AM PST by Fawn
West Boca - Mariah Moorhead knew something was wrong when Jake, her Labrador-Dutch shepherd, kept sniffing at the door, insisting to return outside their home.
The two had just come back from an hourlong walk and workout but she reluctantly opened it. There stood her neighbor, Catalina Medina, bleeding.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
2 young sisters attacked by neighbor's dog"
their yard when the next door neighbor's dog jumped the fence and bit the five-year...around the ribs. The father claimed the dog carried the girl in it's mouth for several feet before the older sister fought the dog off. Then, he said, the dog bit the...
Wary after attack, Victoria Park calls attention to aggressive dogs
Fifty-four animals were killed by dogs in Broward County during a 12-month period ending in September. And some in the Victoria Park neighborhood feel the incident is not isolated.
Time to do something about this.
I'm pretty well known in my neighborhood. Mrs L and I run the Neighborhood Watch and at every meeting we stress that pets are REQUIRED BY LAW to be indoors or on a leash when they're on the street.
That means cats, dogs, ferrets, pot bellied pigs, whatever.
ANY 'stray' animal in our neighborhood is subject to humane trapping and a quick trip to County Animal Control.
There are fines and fees involved in recovering animals, and ferals which aren't adoptable are humanely euthanized.
Vicious animals in our neighborhood are subject to being shot on sight.
L
That just sounds scary!
In our small rural neighborhood in the southeast, a woman was attacked and nearly killed by 5 dogs. A Mexican man stopped and got the dogs off her and took her to the hospital. He said the dogs were clearly trying to kill her. Turns out these dogs were just your average family pets. They were all rounded up and euthanized.
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Citizens can either take matters into their own hands and quickly solve the dog problem .... or wait until gubbmit gets around to it.
My solution is the former, not the latter.
I consider myself fortunate not to live anywhere near your “neighbor”hood. I’ve long believed the best subdivision is 40 acres. I’m looking forward to acheiving that goal sooner or later.
I don’t know about the pit bull part but English Mastiffs are a pretty good breed of dogs. I have known several and they were very gentle. Pit Bulls are just plain killers. My stepson has a Pit and so far he is just a big baby but I don’t trust him.
At the risk of sounding unpolitically correct, wouldn’t it be better just to take care of the actual offenders instead of targeting everything that moves? What about those killer birds and squirrels and crickets and things like that? Do they get it, too?
We're working on that solution ourselves.
But for now we're stuck where we are. So we've tried very hard to improve the neighborhood, run out the gangbangers and hoodlums, and just generally be 'good citizens'.
We were literally over run with feral cats in the last year or so, so we have a fairly active trapping program. Several of us have those "HaveAHart" traps.
We bait them with tuna then send the little buggers to Animal Control. It generally only takes once paying the fines and fees and cat owners keep their animals indoors where they belong.
The unadoptable animals are sadly euthanized.
I really, really loathe people who think it's their God given right to let cats roam the neighborhood. Those people are really cruel almost beyond belief.
L
mastiff-pit bull
That just sounds scary!
It’s only scary if the animal is not obedience trained and does not know rules. The problem in Palm Beach county is not with vicious animals but with stupid owners. Pets are like children - they don’t come with an owner’s manual. They are dependent upon us to make the correct decisions.
Roaming dogs aren’t appreciated in rural areas either. Livestock owners typically have a shoot on sight policy, since otherwise they lose too many calves, foals, lambs, etc. to packs of dogs.
Sounds to me like you really actually hate cats, not necessarily the owners. Cats are nothing like dogs. They hate staying indoors. You can’t fasten them up. I have 2 cats. One is content to stay indoors. One is not. He literally goes nuts if he can’t get outside. Please don’t suggest a fenced in yard. I already have one. Cats jump really high. Anyway as far as I know, he has never attacked another human being and ripped an arm off or anything. I’m being sarcastic. Cats run and hide at the sight of a human. They don’t attack and kill like dogs do. If they ever do bite or scratch its because they were cornered.
True, but in many places they get a second life as shampoo and skin care products.
We no longer have feral cats in our area. We have Daisy.
Who in their right mind would breed a mastiff with a pitt bull?
Somebody needs to tell Julia R “Hey Julia, if you can not control your beast do not walk it in public.”
Man I hate those “It just slipped....” people.
Sounds to me like you don't know squat about me or my 14 year old cat who is a treasured member of our family.
L
I have a fenced backyard, for myself and my dogs, NOT your cats. Your cats leave C R A P in my yard and flower beds, eat the wild birds I chose to feed. I don't care for your argument “that's what cats do...”.
So you’re gonna call the law on somebody’s cat running around the neighborhood? Getting rid of dogs I can understand (as they can actually hurt people), but cats? I’ll grant you that feral cats must be dealt with, but Joe Shmoe’s calico should be left alone.
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