Can I shoot my neighbors dog?
My neighbor's dog (a pit bull) gets out on occasion and runs into our back yard. The yards are fenced, but not real well. My children play outside. Yesterday my 8 and 5 year old son were "stranded" up on the trampoline while the dog barked, growled, and seemed to viciously want to bite them. I went outside and the dog came after me! I went and grabbed my gun and went back outside and the dog was gone. I called animal control and they couldn't do anything about it because the dog was now at my neighbor's house again and its their word against mine. I also have an 11, 3, and 1 year old daughter. My 11 year old and 3 year old play in the yard too and I know for a fact that dog could probably maul all 4 kids that currently use my back yard. This is the 4th time in the last month this dog has been in my yard. Each time it "leaves" but not before attempting to "attack" me. I'm 6ft and 200 pounds too. So the next time I see the dog in my yard, I figure I'll just go outside, and WHEN it tries to attack me - which it WILL, I'll just shoot it dead. I'm hoping this is legal. I live in Texas.
Best way to retaliate against your Neighbors from Hell?
OMG, I have put up with these people for two years now. We each have one acre lots, but they are just the worse liars and pos people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. Their dogs bark all the time, their dogs are loose all the time (YES I have called the police and humane society numerous times), their SIX homeschooled kids are home all the time YELLING and SCREAMING at the top of their lungs for hours, the radio is playing loud, the fumes from their diesel trucks which run for hours is chocking the life out of me and I CANT BREATHE, and I can go on and on and on. Please, I really need to get back at them. I have never done anything bad to anyone my whole life (on purpose) and don't even know where to begin. We can't sell because our business is also on this property and that's just not possible. I picked up 5 piles of their dogs poop this morning by my mailbox. PLEASE give me some good ideas to make these people want to move without getting me in trouble with the law.
If I find a stray dog, how long before she becomes mine?
I found a stray dog in my area, she was a little skinny, but well behaved. Its been over a week, and I put some posters around, as well as pictures/missing add on craigslist. How long till she is legally mine? I've already taken her to the vet, gotten all her shots, registered her, and gotten her a rabies tag. When I found her, she had no collar, no tags, and was underweight. Today she was riding by in my car near some neighbors house 5 blocks away, and some little children in a not so nice area screamed "That's our dog!" Honestly, she is being better taken care of already, and she's started to bulk up, plus she is getting 2miles + a day, other than sitting in her kennel in the backyard of the children I saw. How long till legally, I can call this dog mine? Or is she mine already? IF they happen to claim her, and take her back, is it fair that I ask to be compensated on vet fee's and food seeing as I took great effort to find her "real family?"
I found a lost dog and have been taking care of her and loving her for more than a year now. What if the owner wants to take her back?
In 2010, my dog, Celsey, a miniature dachshund, got out of my back yard. This wasn't unusual because she would often do so to hunt for rabbits in the surrounding yards. She never strayed past the adjacent yards and sometimes got back in my yard while I was looking for her. The only difference this time was that she didn't come back. I had a woman with dogs trained to track lost pets come and track Celsey three different times, and they were able to track her, following a creek across the south side of town. I only had one sighting of her, however, which was three days after she disappeared. I had large flyers posted all over the south side of this city, as well as on my minivan. I even set a live trap for her in a woods after a homeless man thought he had seen her (near the last area in which we had tracked her). I searched for her every day for three months and even checked Animal Control's photos of roadkill dogs, as well as the stray holds. I sent out flyers to 60 veterinarians. After three months, I quit searching for her, but I never gave up hope that maybe she would come home. Unfortunately, she never did. I literally cried every day for a year after she disappeared. This has been one of the most heartbreaking experiences of my entire life, if not the most. So many people saw my flyers that whenever I talked to anyone about her, they would say "Oh, you're the person with the flyers!" For anyone to have kept her and not called me would have been so heartless! Only one good thing came out of my search. A co-worker had lost a dachshund in his neighborhood the year before. A woman who saw my flyer called me and told me that a neighbor of hers had taken in a dachshund the year before that had been a stray. I told my co-worker, his wife went to see the dog, and it turned out to be their dog!! So, this family had to have seen my flyers too, and maybe they didn't see my co-worker's flyers from the year before, but they obviously had chosen to keep the dog and not try to find his owner. They did make my co-worker pay them $400 to reimburse their vet bills because they had gotten the dog neutered. It's been almost 8 years since Celsey disappeared, and she would be 14 now if she's still alive, but I would still love to have her back.
Can I reclaim my dog after I surrendered him?
The beginning of april I adopted a dog from a shelter and loved him unconditionally because he was my only companion since my husband works everyday all day and I stay at home, but just this week we found oout we would have to move and where we are moving to doesnt want any pets. It killed us to take him in especially since he is like our child. He's only been gone for 3 hours and I miss him will they give him back to me? I cant stand the thought of someone else having a dog that was mine! PLEASE HELP
Does a dog remember its owners, and if so, for how long?
My sister and I once owned a dog named Dirt. We gave him to my uncle so the dog could have a larger yard to play in and someone who had more time for him. My uncle decided he did not want the dog anymore. Instead of telling us, he dumped Dirt in the woods behind his house. Needless to say, Uncle no longer gets Christmas cards from me.Fast forward a couple of years later. My sister and I are at a dress shop, at least 6 miles from where my uncle would have ditched the dog. A dog is coming out of a dentist’s office with a guy in dentist gear. The dog comes over to greet us and once it gets closer, it speeds up and literally pounces on me. Like, four paws off the ground pure joy. I’m holding the dog and staring at my sis; we both know its Dirt but we’re speechless. The dentist is surprised and says the dog usually doesn’t act like this with strangers. He’s apologetic, and kind of confused, apparently.So, we tell him the story and have the longest conversation with him while Dirt is pouncing around like a darn fool. Long story short, we can obviously see this guy loves Dirt (renamed Goldie, he was a Golden Retriever mix). The dog is in great physical shape, looks like he’s ready for a dog show. So, of course, we are not going to try to take the dog back. That would be cruel to the guy and the dog.We get in our car to leave. Dirt jumps in the car, hops in the back seat and refuses to move. It takes me, my sis, and the new owner a good 5–10 minutes to haul this dog out of the car. We left him whining and looking the saddest a Golden can look. I know this sounds cruel, but we were two young girls who still rented an apartment and partied on the weekend. That dog had a great life and that’s all I ever wanted for him.So yes, to answer your question, dogs do remember their owners. Ours remembered for at least a couple of years.
My dog killed the neighbors cat in my FENCED yard?
i've been warning them (family of 4) for a long time to keep their cat under control and out of my fenced yard because one day one for my dogs might actually catch it. well that day came yesterday. i was watching tv when i heard these screams, i separated the dog and took the cat to the neighbors house and they rushed it to the vet. well it died there and when they told me i gave my condolences for their loss. anyway, they now want me to pay for the vet expenses and clearly and firmly refused since their animal was in my property without permission. they threatened a law suit, can they actually win?? i refuse to pay so if they actually have the cheek to take me to court after being to irresponsible with their animal i want to know their chances of winning
If a recreational drone lands on my property can I keep it?
“Keep it?” The phrasing here is awkward, but probably.I am somewhat surprised that so many answers here neglect the unique aspects of drones, and reply as if it were a lost wallet.(1) Drones are primarily video recording devices. As such, they have an inherent capacity to invade privacy and record video outside of normal and legal situations. People on the street have reasonable concern and worry about being observed. Heck, my neighborsexpress serious worry about being recorded by drones.(2) Drones are not beach balls, soft balls or frisbees. They are aerial craft being piloted. This requires a great deal of responsibility (and makes them potentially subject to a great deal of law that beach balls are not). A pilot who makes an unauthorized landing on someone else’s lawn has not “lost his soft ball;” unless other circumstances such as weather exist, he’s negligently failed in a variety of duties.While other answers have minimized it to the point of a mis-thrown softball, if it’s on your law, this aerial surveillance package likely was mis-used to get there.So let’s imagine a scenario. Your four-and-five-year-olds are playing in the pool in the back yard. Or in the second-story playroom. Suddenly, a four-camera drone runs out of power and hard-lands on your lawn. It may very well have captured naked pictures of your children (as well as cased your house for later entry).Are you obligated to just hand it back, to whomever was operating it?Not at all.