I doubt anyone loves dogs more than I do. That said, there are some dogs (and their stupid owners) that ought to be shot. My wife has spoken to two police officers concerning a loose, dangerous dog next door, but the police are powerless to preempt the problem before someone gets mauled. Our neighbor has a huge Great Pyrenees that keeps getting out of their yard (we suspect the neighbor actually lets it out to run). It roams around threatening people. On several occasions, it has run up within two feet of me or my wife in our yard, barking and acting like it means to kill us. I finally went to the neighbor (black with an attitude) and asked why he can’t keep the dog confined to its yard. I was dumbfounded by his utter lack of concern. He said, “The dog don’t bite, the dog is fine”. To make a long story short, I replied to him that “Well, I’m not fine, my wife is not fine, and we are terrified of your dog biting us. Dogs are still unpredictable animals and there is no guarantee that he won’t bite someone, like a child”. I further told him that if the dog does bite us, I would sue. He just turned and walked away. Until someone is bitten or mauled, the police will do nothing, because we have asked for help. My wife asked the police if I could shoot the dog if it came onto our property and threatened to bite us. They said no, that would be a Federal crime. Huh? Is that true? When minutes count, our county animal control is an hour away from when they are called.
Your city sounds like mine. Here in Ohio we have an ordinance ‘dog at large’ and we can summons the owner if their dog is running the neighborhood. I have issued alot of those. I don’t know how things are in Texas (if that is where your from) but I would check with your city or county law dept. and find out what the ordinance or state statutes are for dog at large. You may have just had a lazy cop show up at your door.
The woman that used to live 2 doors down from me was a convicted drug dealer. Her drug dealer boyfriend bought her 2 rottweiler puppies. She kept one, named “Kilo” which, when full grown, she let roam the neighborhood. The dog came after one of my kids and my wife.
I had asked her as a neighbor several times to keep ‘Kilo’ and her other dog, which constantly dumped in my yard, on leashes. She didn’t. I ended up having warrants issued for her arrest.
Neighbors in the area came to my house about the matter on several occasions wanting me to do something about it. Which I did.
Little did I know, if I had only checked FR first I would have known that I was supposed to gun down the dog and the neighbors. I can get away with it afterall.