Crazy neighbor and what to do.

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even steven?

Lots of good reason to put this thing to sleep asap.
Here is a win-win option:

Meet with the lady and compare your vet bill to hers. You produce one for $500 and hers is $750. The difference is $250. Offer her half of that, $125 cash, with a signed quit claim agreement.

Both households and dogs are at fault. Both households will be out $625.

Then go add 2' vertical height to your fence.
 
Where did the dog fight happen?

If your dog went to his house and engaged the other dog, then you should pay up the full amount.

If the dogs were on neutral ground someplace, then it's just too bad his dog got the worst of it. You're both at fault. Confine your dog in the future and get a restraining order against him. You don't owe him anything.

I don't see the point of a lawyer. He'll just make the situation more expensive

make note of this and follow the good advice.
 
Lots of good reason to put this thing to sleep asap.
Here is a win-win option:

Meet with the lady and compare your vet bill to hers. You produce one for $500 and hers is $750. The difference is $250. Offer her half of that, $125 cash, with a signed quit claim agreement.

Both households and dogs are at fault. Both households will be out $625.

Then go add 2' vertical height to your fence.
This sounds like really good advice to me.
 
It has been settled criminally by Animal Control. I wouldn't go down there to talk to him. He wouldn't come to my house to talk to me without trespassing which I would call LEO on that have him formally warned then ticketed and/or arrested the next time. If he has something to say to you he can have his lawyer say it to you which he won't because he sounds like he doesn't exactly have the capital to have a lawyer.
He may be a ticking time bomb and you should mind your Ps & Qs when out and about but more than likely he is not going to do anything but piss and moan about it.
 
I should have mentioned this earlier: The dog fight happened back in July 2011. How does that figure into it? They've been taking their sweet time coming to confront me...I'm not sure why. Perhaps they were waiting for me to come down, but I wasn't about to. With his volatile personality, I was afraid a confrontation on HIS property would make me look like the aggressor. I like to think it was the wise thing to do to wait for them to knock on my door instead.
 
The neighbor's dog was out first, which enticed the OP's dog to jump the fence. The OP's dog took a bigger hunk out of the neighbor's dog. It's not like the OP's dog went into the neighbor's yard and bit the neighbor's dog. It sounds like the neighbor was the first one to be in the wrong because his dog was unattended first, BUT, at the end of the day, both dogs were unattended.

In short, I wouldn't pay the guy one thin dime. To do so is admitting you were somehow in the wrong, which could be skewed against you by some attorney, if it should ever go to court.

Personally, I would tell the guy to go make pee-pee up a rope and inform him he is prohibited from my property and that any further discourse with me would have to be through an attorney.

Obviously, this neighbor is what people in my neck of the woods would call "ignorant". You can't argue with ignorance...it's useless. I think it was Mark Twain that said, "never try to bath a pig. It only gets you filty and it annoys the pig". Arguing with a guy like this is like bathing a pig. I just about guarantee that if you gave him the $750, you would hear from him again and soon...with a demand for more money because "Little Flopsy's veterinarian said she has posttraumatic stress disorder from your mean ole' dog biting her and she needs to see a doggy-shrink at the rate of $100 an hour".

But, to end my rant and get to the OP's question of whether he should be prepared to defend himself from this neighbor, my answer would be: "Be prepared to defend yourself from everybody all the time".
 
Paying, not paying, and the civil end of things is not really what S,T,&T is for. Sounds like we've got all the advice on preparation for violence that we're going to get here.
 
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