Poor lil' Daisy. Her behind part bears 2 shiny staples that the vet. will remove next week. She is taking an antibiotic and such a strong painkiller that she can only take 1 every 24 hours. Tonight we put both pills in her canned chopped food and she gobbled it right up. She sort of zones out but moves around better with the pills in her. Elder Daughter said that earlier this evening Daisy was standing in her crate just staring into her empty food bowl. That's all. Just staring. She's doing it now. I mean it's weird. Like the last meal she ate made her feel so gooood that she wants to repeat the experience? Okay, this might be freaking me out.
Earlier in the day we saw two Animal Control officers. They came about 3PM, first to our house where we showed them photographs of the injury and described what happened yesterday. The Animal Control officers then went over to the neighbor's house. I could hear them honking the horn from the back of his lot (10 acres, or so away) and then silence. While they were across the road, a Deputy Sheriff came up in the yard and he will write a report for us. He also went across the road to see the neighbor.
Animal Control returned and told us that there was no response to their attempt to make contact, although all the doors to the house were wide open. They put a notice on the door. We haven't heard anything from the neighbor/owner of the dogs since Animal Control and the deputy left.
A friend who is also the County's Agriculture Enforcement guy had advised us to file both the Animal Control complaint and one with Law Enforcement. He also said we need to file a new complaint every time the dogs are seen off their property.
This morning Elder Daughter was walking her 2 pugs by the burn pit. She saw one of the dogs in our field across the road with her horses. Yelling and shouting for him to go home, she attracted his attention and he ran across to our side of the road and headed to the younger of the Pugs. Daughter said she began telling her dogs to go home and started toward the intruder, yelling and waving arms. That broke his concentration on her dog and he looked at her, barked at her and then ran off to his own property. When we spoke to Animal Control today, they issued another case number and this becomes the second incident report.
Isn't it a shame that dogs don't know what fences and boundary markers mean.
Given that fact, isn't it a shame that some dog owners don't confine their animals.
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According to Cesar Millan, a tennis racket or badminton racket is a good means of fending off a dog intent on aggression. Sounds like elder daughter has the right fearless attitude.
I hope your neighbor gets the message. It is sad when untrained dogs provide their own guidelines for behavior. Trouble for everyone.
I recall Cesar's tennis racket lesson but the Agriculture Enforcement guy told me a baseball bat would suffice. He also mentioned a B-B or pellet gun. We have one that does both. Still no word from the neighbor.
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