Maxxxie:
The dog has a right to sit on its own porch. It does not have a right to sit on **springears ** porch. That is trespassing.
The bitch was not fenced nor leashed nor chained as required by local ordinance.
Just a matter of reminging her of her place, i.e. not in public.
Fortunately the old man was busted for possession. The old lady moved out.
No more bitch, no owners, NO PROBLEM(S).
Unfortunately the bitch had to take the heat for the owners failures.
End of story.
Fini! 
hmm… Well that is true. But lets take another look at that post. I added some bold to the text.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I read that as she was sitting on her porch, in her yard when she was zapped the last time. Only jumping the fence out of her yard after being zapped. Then jumping back into her yard once again. I’m thinking that the dog was on its porch that last time, not springears.
…and there are times such as this when you wish SDMB would let you edit a post as springears responded at the same time I was typing.
Really? I’ve not seen an ordinance that requires a dog to be fenced/leashed/chained when it’s on its owner’s property. Would you be willing to link to an online copy of your local ordinance? I’ve got professional curiosity :).
Lacking that, it comes across like you were tormenting the dog, which could’ve worked against you later if the dog had ever bitten you.
If you’re not sure where your ordinance is online, if you’d let me know the appropriate jurisdiction, I’ll see if I can hunt it down.
Daniel
I’d have to review the situation for 2 factors before I acted. If the dog was a pit bull of some variant then I would be more concerned about the danger of attack. I would also size up the owners.
I had a neighbor with a dog that did not like me. Came home one day to find the dog on the other side of my garage door. Luckily I had plenty of yard tools to force the dog back. One day I happened to come out of my house at the same time as my “neighbor” and he did nothing to curb his berserk dog even when I made overtures to pet the animal. I had to place pruning sheers between me and the dog to prevent being bitten. That told me what I needed to know. Had the neighbor remained the dog would have become a problem. I would not tolerate a dangerous dog next to me. A standard link fence is no match for a large dog.
In my salad days I lived in a trailer court next to a yappy dog. One day my neighbors left for the day with the dog outside. It barked continuously for hours. I got out a hose and squirted it every time it barked. The dog figured out I didn’t have enough hose and ran to the opposite corner (I got more hose). 30 minutes later I was able to train the dog to the sound of water. All I had to do was go pshht and the dog stopped barking.
My advise, if you have sane neighbors and a nice doggy then knock on the door and ask to be introduced. You might be able to make friends to your advantage. I listen to my neighborhood dogs and I can usually tell when there is something afoot.
The leash law here is that the dog must be on a leash, tied or behind a fence even if in the owner’s yard.
If he zapped the dog on the dog’s porch, that is tacky.
I had a dog charge me in my yard. I put my hand in front of me. Ha!
He backed off, though. Perhaps I scream well.
He did use the words ‘nasty tempered rottweiler’.
That’s a good enough reason not to let it sit on the porch watching for victims.
Yeah! And then set up your stereo speakers aimed at the neighbors bedroom, and play that recording loudly about 4am. Repeat on random nights until the neighbors agree to talk sensibly with you about ways of keeping their dog quiet. (With good neighbors, you’ll never have to get to this point – just talking to them about the problem will get them to take some action.)
When new neighbors moved in, they brought with them four children and a couple of dogs.
One of the dogs barked 24/7. I was convinced he had duracell batteries shoved up his ass.
I had just had my first child and already sleep deprived, and probably would have been aok with my sleep schedule with a new baby, if this dog ( over 100 yards away) didn’t bark so frickin’ much.
We called our sherriff about 13 times from Mid May to Fall. The other neighbors ( who were closer) called anywhere from 25 times to 100 times.
The problem was the husband had a massive stroke and ended up in a nursing home. Mom suddenly had to work two jobs to support them and was never home. Had we known this in the beginning, we would have taken a different stance.
The kids ran amok on their dirt bikes from the minute mom was out of hearing range with her car until well after sunset. The constant RRRRRRRRRRRRR ( in first gear no less) from 8am - 10pm all summer long ruined that summer for me.
Eventually, the mother was clued in by a sherriff of what was going on and the dirt bike incident stopped. ( Another neighbor who works nights came over after about 12 weeks of sleeping in his basement with the fans on high and told the kid he was going to shoot the bike.) but the dog situation did not get better.
Then one day, the problem dog ( who was always in a pen) got out and was hit by a car on the small, dirt road private drive that can only be called a country lane. 6 houses live on this dead end street. Pepper was dead. Frankly, it was no loss.
The sherriff basically said we ( any of the neighbors) had the right to take them to court to get them to shut the dog up, but no one wanted to deal with that when they have teenagers that might do acts of vegence. Fortunately, the next summer it was like they were never there.
A 30-30 should work pretty well. A 30-06 is probably a bit much, unless it’s a St. Bernard…
What is not a good idea is to advocate illegal violence on the SDMB. Do not do it again.
While I am reluctant to risk being censured by a moderator, I feel I must make a comment. BrotherCadfael’s remarks may have been ill-advised, but I believe they were made playfully and not too out-of-line with some the posts made earlier in the thread. I think the term illegal violence would include the use of a Red Ryder and the overuse of a “Dog Dazzler,” yet no warnings were given after those posts. I don’t mind playing by the rules, as long as they are applied evenly and consistantly.
Does this post mean I’ll become a memory here? I hope not.
All posts advocating illegal violence are unwelcome on the SDMB-I merely used the latest post as an example.
All clear now?
I don’t know that I was advocating anything of the sort, but I will abide by the ruling of the moderator. My apologies.
How on earth could you construe what you said as anything BUT advocating illegal violence?
Daniel
Well, I’m pretty dense and realized right away that it was a joke, but thought the guys who advocated shooting the critter in the ass with a BB gun were serious (and I’m pretty sure they are – my grandfather did that many years ago to a dog who liked to run loose and crap in his yard). Actually, after I read the comment I thought he was going to wind up like DreadCthulhu (or however the hell you spell it) because enough people have a differing sense of humor and wouldn’t get it. Of course DC was even more crass about it; he was definitely being a jerk with a few of his comments. I saw nothing remotely jerk-like from BC, just a joke that some people didn’t notice.
Hmm. It could be that advocating illegal, specific violence is okay when you’re just joking about it, but that’s not the impression I’ve got. Especially not when the joke is deadpan enough that it could get taken seriously.
Perhaps working for a humane society, where we regularly have to deal with cats and dogs that get shot/decapitated/set on fire/beaten/fought, has dulled my sense of humor.
Daniel
Dunno. I’m still feeling my way around the board, and I’m definitely not a mod. Obviously, what Czarcasm says goes. As for the humor bit, that may be true. Or it could just be my sense of humor is a bit more deadpan than yours so the thought that he was serious never crossed my mind. I’m not the kind to go around slapping a smiley on every post I make, but maybe one would’ve helped BrotherCadfael’s case here.
OMG! That’s awesome! Where can I get one of these? Man dogs and dog owners are about the most annoying things to walk the earth.