There is a neighbor who already does that to lots of the properties on the street. All kinds of people got notices from code enforcement about keeping their grass cut.
5000 flies on the upstairs windows and some discrete blood oozing out of the woodwork usually does it.
Oh Hell No. Time for some good nice black string Really though, that ^ would absolutely be the last straw, if they hadn't already stomped that last straw. Could you talk to your grand-daughter's guidance counselor about what to do about the teenage bullies at her bus stop and in her neighborhood? Since those girls are really as big and aggressive as any adult, I wonder if you could talk to the police about those them. I'm not usually a person EVER to suggest talking to the law about anything...but in this case I'd for sure make an exception. I know I would sit and think and do every damn thing I could to make them gone.
they aren't teens, they are adults..... that means she is an adult and changes the game completely if she is harassing a minor. call the police on her next time it happens, and tell them an ADULT is assaulting a minor. if one of them actually pushed her or something, then it is assault and battery on a minor. if the little in-bred, pig-fuckin', blow-job-for-a-quarter, hillbilly whores are adults, fucking tell the police to treat them like it, and point it out EVERY time there is an issue between them and your granddaughter. probably one of them would end up in cuffs.
The high school bus and the middle school bus come close to the same time so both groups of kids were at the stop together. Now, my granddaughter waits in her drive until the big kids are gone, or until she sees her bus, to walk to the stop. That's caused her to miss the bus once so far. Okay, I'm done with these bitches. I've lived here 30 years and they aren't dictating to me. I do put my dogs up when they are out with theirs because if my dogs break their leads then I'm in shit. But other than that...when my dogs are secured I'm calling on them. I've let them take too much ground.
Pepper spray for the dogs. (don't kill them--it's the owners fault.) I'm sorry this is happening to you--jeez--30 years and you have to put up with---well--no you don't. It becomes sticky when you have to deal with something like this YOURSELF. I'm with Lynn on this. I don't like to fool with the law either and I don't. BUT--maybe they could/would send a patrol car by the bus stop and have a talk with the antagonizers. I don't know. That might make it worse. If this were me, I think I would go directly to the parent/s and have a little talk with 'em. I had a deal where my boy was a terrorized by a bully. According to law, I didn't handle it well. According to me--that shit stopped.
Talking with their mother about the dogs doesn't help. The incident with my granddaughter was once so I haven't had to do anything about it.
Well good. I guess that just leaves the dogs to take care of. Easier than dealing with bad human neighbors.
I just got so, as my husband calls it, god smacked for plotting to call on those neighbors. I had shortened my dogs leads going harness directly to cable, eliminating the leash in between. Somehow, the Pit Bull, got the Plott Hound to step on the snap and release her. The Pit goes flying around the yard a few times involving trying to get up the courage to go over and mess with the neighbors dogs where they are put up on their back porch. I, the hubby, and 4 grandkids were out chasing and calling her thinking we were cool because the neighbors weren't home. Just as I got the dogs put in the house for time out, the 19 year old comes out of the house to walk one of her dogs. Jesus. I swear. That's why I try to cut them some slack on the dogs breaking their cables. It can happen. The mouthing off and intentionally letting the dogs go loose is another story.
There's another rental house with problem neighbors who own problem dogs. This is long. I wrote it so I could remember details if I fill out a Witness Report for Animal control. It even has a blurb about the neighbors mentioned above. Well, we had another big incident with "Tuck" the black and white pit bull from down at 128 ****** Rd. About 5 pm the dog came up the hill and into our yard where my two dogs were on their cables with me. I yelled for *hubby and he came outside. "Tuck" charged my dogs and us. He just kept advancing every time we pulled our dogs back. I finally had to wrap my forearms in my dogs' harnesses and squat down as low as I could to hold them. That left my feeble hubby out in the driveway with that vicious dog still advancing. Hubby would get him to run off a few feet and then he'd go circle back behind hubby trying to get to my dogs and me. I was yelling at the top of my lungs and finally *my son from next door came out and helped me get untangled from my dogs to get them into the house. When my dogs were inside, "Tuck" was still in my yard viciously barking at hubby and I. We'd scare him off and then he'd circle back behind us still barking and growling at us. He had us pinned. Finally, another dog, "Ginger", from 119 ****** Rd. caught his attention when her owner opened the front door and let her out. Tuck ran toward her. Both of those dogs ended up trying to scrap in another yard, across from 119 ****** Rd. I think that address is 110 ***** Rd. I called 911. Our neighbor Lou, from 120****** Rd. came out and drove down to the owner, Greg's, house @ 128 ****** Rd. He blew the horn and blew the horn until a child came out and called "Tuck" into the house. The Police Officer came out and talked to me after the dog had been put away. He told me that Animal Control was on another call and they they would contact me by phone since "Tuck" was no longer running around terrorizing people and animals. The Animal Control officer called me and I explained everything to him. He told me since it was after hours, and everything was okay, that he would have another Animal Control officer contact me tomorrow to see if I wanted to fill out a Witness Statement and have them write a citation to the owner. I've been there before. It will end up with me being subpeonaed into court as a Witness for Animal Control. I don't know what to do. We've spoken to Greg several times about "Tuck" but the situation is not being handled by him.
After sleeping on it, I'm no clearer on what to do about the scene last night. I suppose that when Animal Control calls this morning I'll tell them that I will give the owner one more chance. Then we will talk to the guy this afternoon when he comes to get his kids at the bus stop. I will make sure he understands the seriousness of it. I don't think he has ever witnessed his dog acting this way. On the other hand, I think he is a wanna be thug. He has a gold grill and this Pit Bull and I'm afraid he thinks it fits his image to have a "bad dog". Damn it. I don't want him fined and his dog impounded again. He barely got the dog out before it was put down the last time someone called about it nearly biting them at their car. I hate that this man won't do right by his dog.
We're cool. I get his kids off the bus when he oversleeps; I've made his dog chase my car down to his house and blown the horn for him to come out several times. He appreciates it all. He brings extra food up for my dogs when there are leftovers from a cookout. He just doesn't take the dog pulling out of his collar, and terrorizing the neighborhood, seriously.
It sounds like you kind of feel bad for him but if the feeling was mutual....he would keep his dog where it belongs. This is nuts. I can see if a dog got out once in a great while but this sounds like it's all the time. If you can't reasonably secure your dogs then maybe you shouldn't have dogs. This reminds me of something....my old house was on the edge of town on a gravel road. Some guy a few blocks away had a pitbull that got out and killed another dog. He somehow was allowed to keep the pit. A couple of weeks later it got out again and got into our elderly neighbors yard (2 doors down). They had to watch helplessly as it tore their little dog apart. He still didn't lose the dog right away. There was only these three houses on our side of the block and one across the street and I had a very small daughter who we were all kind of worried about with this dog situation the way it was. We had a little meeting between the neighbors and it was decided that there would be a loaded shotgun just inside the back door of my next door neighbors house. If anyone sees that dog....you know what to do. Put the gun back and then report a dead dog. Nobody heard a thing. We have no idea how that fucker died. But eventually the city took the dog and put it to sleep.