So I live in a cul-de-sac full of families and my dogs got out
 

So I ran out of the house today to the Coffee shop, and I must not have pulled the front door closed all the way. While I was gone all three Rottweilers got out and roamed the neighborhood. One Neighbor, in fear of his life, jumped over his fence to get away from the "growling" pack.

In reality, my dogs aren't vicious in the least, but 340 pounds of Rottweilers roaming the streets is apparently too much for the parents of young children.

Poor guy comes over and says "Well we basically found out we can't do anything about your dogs unless they bite someone. My wife is just livid though, I mean she's ready to tear a piece out of you." I just laughed and said "Look I do my best to keep the dogs inside, I'm sorry they got out, it was a mistake, and even so nothing happened. Nobody got mauled, nobody got bitten, nobody got chased. You all just got a little scare, that's it. I'm not getting rid of the dogs and you're right there's nothing you can do about that. I'm sorry your wife is upset."

Vancouver has the biggest whinning bitches when it comes to dogs.

"livid" is such a white word.

Fuck them all, I've got 2 rotties... everyone else leave there mutt's off leash roamig everywhere but I walk down the street with my boy, on leashes ( show dogs) and I'm a fuckin bad guy. Fuck them all I hope they get bit by a fucking collie.

Lol... Poor guy, his wife will be pissed at him...

the dogs got out.... and didn't hurt anyone... THE HORROR

http://www.altheabraithwaite.net/Feeling%20Scared.JPG

After that teenage girl who was chomped in the face by some roaming dogs..you can't blame the public on being paranoid

Winnipeg isnt' much better. Even when I'm standing right there next to him, some people walk by and feel the need to open their traps about him not being on a chain...... yet he's standing on my own property in my yard and not bothering anyone in the least.

Best bet is to put a fence up around the property, as much to keep idiots out as it is to keep the dog in.

Let them out again.

I would be freaking out too if I looked out my window and saw three big dogs like that running around! :Oh crap

You should invite them all over to meet the dogs, in your house so they can chill the hell out and see that the babies are nice. :)

I would love to play with those big babies! :thumbsup

Asshole, what you should have done is apologized & got them all applebee's gift certificates for $25.

God some people have no idea how to deal with rational suburbanites

If I had kids on that street I would have gotten in your face to make my point loud and clear that you better smarten up and not let that happen again. I would have over-reacted after hearing of so many maulings of kids in Vancouver area no matter how much you tell me your babies wouldn't harm a fly.

i would have to agree with that :thumbsup

Yeah well the thing is I'm 6'0 about 220 pounds, and this guy is maybe 5'8 150 pounds and afraid of my dogs. No chance he was going to "get in my face".

Besides, like I said, I apologized. I try my best to not let the dogs roam, I've spent a good deal of time and money repairing the fences in the back and what not. Clearly I didn't mean to leave my front door open, unlocked and flapping in the wind. I understand you have to be protective of your children, and three big dogs roaming are still three big dogs roaming. I didn't give the guy a hard time because I feel bad for him.

If I seen a Rottweiler roaming the streets with no owner I would be worried.

tony

I really don't understand why you think the other people are being assholes about it. From what I understand, and what most people perceive to be true, is rottweilers are very protective, loyal, and territorial dogs. They love their owners but do not get along well with others.

Knowing that, why would you expect others with kids to brush off the situation? Be happy your dogs are still alive, I know plenty of people that would have shot them.

its canada, noone shoots dogs up here....

You can't stereotype a dog anymore than you can a person. There are plenty of shelties, poodles and collies that are plenty more dangerous than my dogs are. The simple fact is my dogs are not aggressive, they are not vicious, they do not bite.

If somebody shot my dogs because they somehow thought they were being preventitive, I'd be tempted to shoot the guy. At very least I'd beat them, in front of their children, and maybe even beat their children too. Fucking with my dogs is like fucking with someones children, don't do it.

You clearly sound like a responsible person that had an isolated hiccup.

You are lucky you dont live next to me, I would have probably shot all three dogs dead before they had a chance to hurt someone.

A 12 year old boy was just killed in San Francisco by two dogs, probably by a stupid dog owners like yourself.


JJJ

You can stereotype both dogs and people just fine. Stereotypes exist for a reason, they aren't just randomly created. It is true though that a lot of times stereotypes are formed based on misperceptions. And like I mentioned above, most people perceive rottweilers to be very aggressive dogs. Whether your particular 3 dogs are aggressive or not does change the fact that people are afraid of rottweilers.

Obviously you're a responsible person and this was a mistake, and like you said, you can understand why your neighbors were upset.

I live in Canada, Rambo, you wouldn't be shooting anything.

Stupid dog owners like myself? I small mistake happens, one time my dogs get out. While they're out they hurt nobody and do no damage. They're back in withing 15-20 minutes of getting out. Net damage, nothing. To put it in perspective, for the year I've lived at this house the children have had complete run of the cul de sac for the entire time minus 15 minutes my dogs accidentally got out.

My dogs would never kill anybody, period. My dogs aren't vicious. No particular breed of dog, no matter what you might think, is inheritly more vicious than any other.

So basically you'd kill my harmless, friendly dogs, for accidentally getting out and not causing any damage. You're calling me the stupid dangerous one? Wow.

So by your very own logic, they should beat you up because the dogs could have endangered their little toddler?

Fucking with my dogs is like fucking with someones children, don't do it.
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Fucking with my children is like fucking with someones dog, don't do it.

I'm just playing devils advocate :1orglaugh Btw, which part of 604 are you from? I'm assuming Richmond since you mentioned cul-de-sac...

I live across the street from the seawall and see this situation daily and would like your thoughts:

Father walking with young 3 yr old daughter by the water enjoying the day. Coming the other way is a large dog not on leash running towards the daughter. Father not sure if dog is friendly or will maul daughter. Father doesn't have time to scoop up daughter in his arms and has to make a quick decision whether to kick the dog in the face as it bears down on daughter. If I was a protective father this would be a situation that would cause my heart to race and stress that would hit the roof trying to figure out how to react. Owner shows up 2 minutes later with attitude like stop being such a pussy dad. I see this daily and it sickens me.

Well if my dogs were attacking somebody, and somebody shot them to stop it, then that'd be just the way she goes. As far as shooting friendly dogs because you think they MIGHT hurt someone, that pushes my buttons.

Bunch of gun toating loonies that somehow think them shooting dogs is protecting their families. Absurd.

It's not just roaming dogs....A lot of these dogs are simply too big for their owners to control even while leashed.

I live near an area in the city where people are inclined to let their dogs run free and I have been chased more than a few times. I told one lady that if her dogs lunged at me again I would get my car and run them down. She finally got the message.

Having dogs this large in a city residence just isn't reasonable. If you want a pet get a poodle. If you want to harass your neighbours, scare their kids and be an ass get a Rotweiler.

That's a retarded situation. Dogs should be leashed, period. When I take my dogs anywhere, they're leashed and on choke collars. I think people have every right to be upset when dog's are running around unleashed. It's irresponsible.

The other day, I was walking my dogs and two terrier sized dogs try to attack them, I was able to control my dogs and keep the terriers from getting killed, but the lady who owns these dogs was giving my dirty looks. Her dogs, not on leashes run off her property and start a fight with my dogs on their leashes and somehow this is my fault? :helpme

If you know anything about dogs ,good dogs could turned bad very quickly groups of dogs over two start to exhibit pack behavior ,which can turn very bad very quickly.You should be saying your sorry to your neighbors, dogs just dont get out.

You should have given your dogs 2 new play toys. I hate little dogs, haha.

With all due respect, I've had dogs my entire life. My third dog was placed here by my sister, who is a Doctor of Veternary Medicine, and might know a thing or two about animals.

Big dogs are ghetto.

My point was in reference to your preventative action stance in earlier post. I am just saying that here downtown by English Bay, dog owners by the hundreds everyday put people in these extremely uncomfortable scenerios where they don't know if they need to take immediate preventative action against a running dog coming at their kids or them. This goes down almost every minute of every day along the seawall. I am sure 99.9% of time the dog wants to say hi, but...

that's why I walk around the neighborhood with a good strong stick...niggas around here don't know how to tie up their dogs...if one comes at me, it'll get severely fucked up and I dare the owner to say something.

In my neighborhood, if a dog roams onto my property and I feel threatened in the least, I'll shoot first and ask questions later. I've been attacked by dogs and see no reason to take a chance. The "you can't do anything about it" concept works both ways. You can't do anything about me shooting your dogs if they come on my property.

A guy parked his car near my place, let his dog out off leash who proceeded to chase my cat up a tree and I had to run to stop the dog from killing my cat and bring him to the owner, and he says "Oh he normally doesn't act like that" to which I said "Yeah, and I don't normally slash people's tires, enjoy your walk"

Well no I can do one thing about it, I can not live in the gun toting US of A. If you pulled out a gun and shot a dog here in Canada, you'd be in a world of hurt legal wise. :thumbsup

they are scary dogs, but if this is a rare occurance of them getting out and all was ok then they should chill

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Your neighbor jumped a fence "in fear for his life" and to get away from your kind, harmless, friendly animals, who were growling at him, but you dont think I would shoot them!!!!!

If your 3 dogs would have attacked that guy what would you be saying now?
You would be getting sued and your dogs would probably be put down.

Kinda sucks for the dogs to have owners like that dont you think?

JJJ

Are all city folks such ignorant pricks?

Fucking idiotic POS.

No, my neightbor got scared and went back in his gate when he saw them. That somehow translated to jumping over a fence in fear of his life. It's an overaction, plain and simple.

One of these three monsterous killers is a 9 month old puppy that's so submissive she's afraid of her own tail. Again, nobody was chased, nobody was hurt. The three dogs played a little in the cul de sac, and then someone brought them in. That's all that happened.

These are not vicious animals, they don't bite, growl at or chase people. I think you're confused, nobody was actually being menaced in any way.

Are all potato farm boys inbred dunces who's family tree never forked?

Lol..yes they are..You wouldn't see that living in PEI,do you even lock your doors at night?

I've been around and have seen these big mouth morons in person. I was just being a smartass. They'll always do this and that until it acutally happens and they act like civilized humans like everyone else. How often do you see people shooting dogs or harrassing someone because they got out of the yard? Hardly ever, needledick just likes flapping his gums on GFY.

While i think that parents of children in suburban neighborhoods get their panties in a knot too much I can understand their plight. All it takes is one kid to run away from the dogs to ensue an attack. Dogs chase things that run. Kids run when scared. Rotties are territorial and tempermental. They can be the nicest creatures for 15 years then one day SNAP when a kid runs away from them. It's their instinct to hunt what runs. I don't blame them for being upset. If my kid was old enough to go out in the yard on his own and I saw 3 rotties roaming the streets you can bet your savings account that I would have killed the dogs the second I saw them NEAR my property. My child's life is more important than irresponsible pet owner's animals and their "rights" to have pets.

These parents were concerned for the safety of their human being children. Sorry, but 3 dog's lives are not worth the chance of a child being killed and ripped to shreads by a trio of dogs who by nature hunt and kill what runs from them.

You shouldn't have those dogs in a neighborhood with children. All it takes is one kid to run after a ball that falls near your yard for one of those dogs to jump through a window and kill the child. it has happened before.

As a general rule of commons ense, if you live in a neighborhood full of children, don't bring rotties, dobermans and pit bulls home. That's ust endangering the whole neighborhood and putting everyone on their nerves because you feel it's perfectly fine to have killers for pets.

Get a fucking mixed Shepard or a Retriever if you want huge dogs.

They're still a wild animal with killer instincts. Same as a wolf, but with way more power.

Try this. Dress up like someone else, change your scent with lots of cologn. Let your dogs outside. Sneak near the yard and when they see you, run like mutherfucker. I guaranty you you'll be dead before you make it across the street.

Your dogs may be gentle, sweet and harmless right now but under the right circumastances that trigger their hunting isntincts they become viscious cold blooded killers. That's why wolves are an illegal pet in many places. For the same reason.

I hope you got them all fixed. They can turn even easier when in heat.

be careful man, some stupid ass neighbor will trigger them into something to prove their plight and end up getting themselves killed.

Fence your entire yard if you insisnt on housing killers.

Where the fuck do you people grow up that you think dogs will kill you if you fucking run? Seriously man, get a dose of reality. There are all kinds of dogs roaming the streets that people run on every day. Rotties included. Paranoid freak.

that's fucked up.

Glad you're able to overpower your animals though. Too many people get big dogs and can;t handle them if their lives depended on it.

I'm sorry but I just don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. These dogs are hundreds of years domesticated my friend, and nothing like Wolves found in the wild. My dogs wouldn't snap and kill anybody just for running, regardless of what you'd like to think. Rottweilers are no more prone to "snapping" than any other dog.

Read this site over carefully http://www.fataldogattacks.com/ and then we can talk.

Watch your tongue potato boy.

I never said ALL dogs. Don't generalize.

Most dogs WILL chase if you run from them. They feel threatened and retaliate. Most dogs would just chase you and give up once you left their territory. Rotties, Bulls and other kilers like them would not stop until they got you.

Another thing too is that Rotties tend to be very playful animals. There have been manyc ases in the maritimes here where roties have killed kids because they thought the kid running away was just playing with them. Now picture a pair of Rotties Vs. a 6 year old kid in a play fight.

Do the math.