Can’t prove anything but our next door neighbor said that one of the women in the neighborhood came door-to-door with a petition to complain about us. They never had the decency to approach us before hand.
I hate when that happens!
I remember a dispute over a German Shepherd Dog way back in the dark ages. The man was an engineer who traveled a lot. He had a child and a Spanish wife who could not speak English. They moved next door to us.
He was training that dog (very small lot) to be an attack dog and he, or his wife, would tie the dog on a long lead to the front steps. The dog could roam all the way out to the other side of the street (a busy one) The kids could not get home from school without crossing to the other side of the street (dangerous), and people were afraid to get out of their cars. My kids took the brunt of that dog’s teeth (8 bites — not severe, but he terrified my kids).
The father (when he was home) would sit at his dining room table fondling his hand gun. Every time that dog bit one of my kids, I’d call animal control and they’d put the dog in home quarantine for a month. It seems that animal control couldn’t do a thing about the dog unless they witnessed the bite. That dog bit my kids, the couple across the street, blockaded the elderly couple next door in their car for a half hour, etc., etc.
Then the guy captured my cat and sent it in to the pound and had it put down. Their kid laughed about it. Then the man, knowing that I was plenty fed up, wrote up his own petition (I had done nothing like that) and got the neighbors to put their names on this paper saying that the dog was perfectly fine. I was crushed that my neighbors would do that to me, but I think they were intimidated. One of them was bitten in the seat of his pants right after he had signed the paper.
About that time, my husband saw the gun and told me to stop talking to them, and we accepted a transfer. We moved in August. At Thanksgiving we received a phone call from one of our old neighbors asking for al my contacts at Animal Control because that dog had attacked a lady and her Pomeranian as they walked by one day and killed the Pom. “Sorry,” I said. “I threw all that information away when I moved.”
Idiots.