thats it im moving

[lil'lucybear]

so yesterday i had lucy out in the front yard, not tied up, (she never gets tied) we have a fenced in yard. anyway, one of the little kids in my neighborhood must have jumped my fence to play with lucy (after being told 50 times a day for the last 6 months to stay out unless im in there). next thing i know i look out my window and lucy is standing on top of him like ha ha i win. she didn't bite him, or scratch him, or even hurt him at all, to be honest she was licking his face. but anyway he ran home and told his mom that my pup attacked him and next thing you know, she is in face screaming. i asked her if she saw one little mark on his whole body and then informed her that if she was a better parent her 4 year old son would not be outside by himself in the middle of philly. so anyway after explaining to this crazy women that it was her sons fault, because my dog was in my yard and he didn't have permission to enter, and that lucy didn't even hurt the kid, she may have scared him, but didn't act violent in anyway, the mom tells me she is calling animal control. i tell her to go ahead, i am calling the police, i have a no trespassing, private property, and a beware of dog sign hung on my fence, so really i could have you arrested in responsibilty for your minor, for trespassing. well that got rid of the crazy ass lady, and now she is telling me that she is going to get a patition signed to ban pit bulls in my neighborhood, she is nuts, the rest of the neighborhood loves lucy, so maybe we should ban her.

[jankab]

Sounds like she's off her meds.

[auggiedog]

she was probably drunk or high to let a 4yr old out alone, so call childrens services on her

[lil'lucybear]

i have called childrens services on her like three times, but she puts on a good act, and there is nothing they can do. whatever, i would burn down her house but its in my row.

[Scotsman]

Call the police when the kid is running around the neighborhood. A buddy of mine had a similiar problem, plus the mother was always curisng and yelling at her kid. He tried CPS but she put on a good act, so he called the cops instead and they caught her yelling and screaming at the kid and they called CPS. The mother changed her attitude after like the 2nd time, when CPS said that she is going to loose her kid if they get called a third time.

[Scotsman]

You should start a petition saying all kids under 6 yrs need to be under adult supervision while outside.

[jankab]

Or get an electric fence! j/k

[lil'lucybear]

yeah an electric with high enough voltage to fry the little brats brains, sorry that was mean, but i know its not the kids fault, but i still can't stand the little brats in my nieghborhood, they are incapable of listening. i am really scared that one might come in my yard and make lucy angry, (even though that is really hard to do) and she might bite one, even if it is just play biting. then i am going to have to put her down. guess what if that happens i am tell the people to put their stupid nosey kid down.

[tommy3]

It doesn't matter where you move. You are always going to have dumbasses around. Unless, you move deep into the woods somewhere.

[lil'lucybear]

very true, but in the city there are so many stupid little kids that have parents that seem to want them dead or kidnapped, cause they are constantly left unattended, so it is really hard to keep them out of my yard, i even have a lock on my fence, but some how they climb it. idiots. i think i am going to put barbbed wire on top, i don't know if that is legal.

[jankab]

Thats probally not legal... I would just call your local police station and have them open a case on the complaint, then anytime this happens call them again... tell them you are concerned that some of the kids in the neighborhood are hopping the fence and harassing your dog and you don't want it to ever turn into a problem. At least then if anything ever does happen (God forbid) they will at least have filed evidence of your complaint.

[lil'lucybear]

true, true, i think i will do that tonight, i wish i lived in the middle of no where.

[jankab]

I'll second that, the city gets old quick! Although I have great neighbors, so I cannot complain.

[jawbones]

I am so glad I live where I do. Thee are some bad points, such as, no DSL only slow dial up, 36 miles to town gas is outrageous, the but all the good points by far outway the bad.

[nappydawg]

get a low power bb gun and shoot the lil brat wait that ain't legal sorry

i'd go with the police idea that way eventually with enough complaints they might get off their lazy donut eating asses and do something for once hehehehe i like cops can ya tell

[lil'lucybear]

cops in philly are such pigs, the other week my neighbors were having a really bad domestic, the guy had out a gun and pistol whipped his wife (she deserved it b/c she ran off and got knocked up by her coke dealer) any way this is so not typical of my neighborhood usually it is really quiet. but in this situation i called the cops cause it was getting out of control and i didn't want to get shot. the cops are always sitting at the 711 a block up the street, i ran up after like 10mins after i called and still no one had come, i told them that at this point a man had gun and he was still freaking out and now he was waving it around, i was afraid someone in the now developed crowd of people was going to get shot. you know what the cops said, they told me that they wanted to wait and see if they were going to get a call from dispatch, they figured if they didn't get the call, someone else would take care of it. and someone else did take of it. apparently one of the girls sisters who was visiting called the coke dealer babys father and told him what was happening, this whole has been going on for like 25 mins at this point. the coke dealer shows up like 5 mins later and kicks the living crap out of my neighbor, the gun was never loaded(i guess that is way he was hitting her with it. anyway the cops finally showed up about an hour after i called them and everything was already over, the coke dealer took the girl with him and the guy managed to crawl back into his house. i saw the cops and said " wow see all that blood every where, i guess someone else took care of it" they shrugged and left. what assholes right, oh wait they made a comment about how lucy wasn't tied up in my fenced in yard.................. i told them to show me the law that states my pit bull must be tied down in my fenced in yard.

[HighRoller]

Thats probally not legal... I would just call your local police station and have them open a case on the complaint, then anytime this happens call them again... tell them you are concerned that some of the kids in the neighborhood are hopping the fence and harassing your dog and you don't want it to ever turn into a problem. At least then if anything ever does happen (God forbid) they will at least have filed evidence of your complaint.
excellent advice, jankab. be proactive in documenting your position in the event a situation arises from future harassment or trespassing.

[Blitzkrieg]

Beyond anything to do with your dogs you seem pretty involved in your neighbors business as well.

Her sisters baby daddy brothers friend and cousin all went out and...

But anyways, you were given some great advice, and something else you may want to consider...no tresspassing signs are good if in fact you are having problems with tresspassers or (bratty children) in your situation, but beware of dog signs can often back fire against you especially when someone wants to file a complaint about a dangerous dog because it portrays to others that you are acknowledging the fact you do indeed own a vicious dog that could be a threat to others. Just something I have heard from a few cases being discussed at the animal shelter here.

[HighRoller]

Good point, blitz.

[Zoe]

Personally if I was in that situation.... I would not leave my dog unattended outside. If the kid comes up take your dog and go in the house. After awhile of this the kid may just get bored of the whole scenario. When you live in the middle of a big city sometimes it is just best to keep your dog with you as if it was a little child. It is safer for the dog and will probably cause you less stress.

[MRS_FIFTY]

Her sisters baby daddy brothers friend and cousin all went out and...

Absolutely hilarious!!!

[Kay]

but beware of dog signs can often back fire against you especially when someone wants to file a complaint about a dangerous dog because it portrays to others that you are acknowledging the fact you do indeed own a vicious dog that could be a threat to others. Just something I have heard from a few cases being discussed at the animal shelter here.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
That is EXACTLY what my dog officer in my old town told me! He was good friends with my Grandfather and was very tolerant of my dogs and pit bulls in general. Very honest and good guy. But one day when he came to my house the first thing he said to me was "Take that sign DOWN!" and then said pretty much word for word what you did. Good Advice

[miakoda]

Use "No Trespassing" signs instead of "Beware of Dog" ones. They'll protect you & cannot be used against you.

[Starr]

I feel for you. I had the same problem when I lived in St Paul except the brats were trying to hit my dogs with sticks! I was so scared a kid would end up getting bit because they were taunting them so bad. (I did move eventually) but while we lived there I let the police know about the problem and put up a video camara so if the parents tried to say their kids didn't act like that I could show them differently. I also brought one of our dogs out and had all the neighbor kids meet him so they could see he wasn't some demon dog that they had a reason to try to conquer. They got to pet him and give him cookies. Sounds like you have a different situation though. I like that electric fence idea but I think getting a video camara and showing mom the truth might work better. Parents naturally defend their children and will always blame the dog owner. When a parent can see what is actually happening it is a whole new story.

[lil'lucybear]

first off its hard not to be invovled with your neighbors when their house is attached to your own, it kinda comes with the territory. second i had the no trespassing sign up long before the dog came, the kids were ripping my flowers out of my garden, i tried everything, even sprayed them with the garden hose a few times. i put the sign up so i could lie to them and tell them the cops did it, they are stupid kids and believe me, so for the most part they stay out, there are only a few that still come in. i would bring my pup in, and usually she is only out there for like 5 or 10 mins by herself, but that is way i paid a lot of money for a good fence, so she can be out there. a video camera might work, but these people are idiots, they would be like thats not my kid, all the kids around here look the same, blah blah blah, i have had parents tell me to my face that thats not my kid, i catch them and grab them and take them to their house, and the parent denies the kid. it rediculous, and by the way the story was just to show the extreme situation that was happening and how lazy the cops still were, sorry it was so long!!!

[GD2]

get a low power bb gun and shoot the lil brat wait that ain't legal sorry

i'd go with the police idea that way eventually with enough complaints they might get off their lazy donut eating asses and do something for once hehehehe i like cops can ya tell

THATS FUNNY NAPPY. SHE IS A BAD MOTHER SHE SHOULD TEACH HER CHILD SOME RESPECT FOR PEOPLES PROPERTY.

[Crash97]

i have had parents tell me to my face that thats not my kid, i catch them and grab them and take them to their house, and the parent denies the kid. Hell if they deny the kids are theirs, take em out in the country and let em go. The parents don't claim them anyways.

[GrCh_Jeff]

crash..lmao,,thats a good one.

[bdub]

do the cops in philly even care?i remember when i was in south philly cops were buying crack from the dealers on bicycles

[lil'lucybear]

no they could care less, they underpaid, and they are lazy as hell.