Ratfood
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First off this was a post I made 1 year ago and it was quickly deleted because of legal problems the Mods thought I might have had to put up with. More about this at the end.. I still think it is an interesting story because I am told all is well that ends well...
"Let me start off with me and my family are dog lovers. Well, we just moved into a nice neighborhood last week. And the next door neighbors have a german shepard that tears the boards off in the backyard fence bordering our houses. I was going to buy some new lumber and rebuild the fence where he tears it up because I have 3 kids that like to play outside in the back, and I dont want them to have to deal with those things...
Well I haven't fixed the fence yet but today we're hanging out out front in the garage with the door open and the neighbor lets the dog out in the front and it goes after the two kids (about 5 and 7 years old) across the culdesac. Well it jumps down the 7 year old boy and the kids parents and my father-in-law run out there and scare the dog away. The kid ends up with just a large scratch or bite on his arm no ambulance or anything (luckily). The whole time the dogs owner is standing in his front doorway watching this... He doesn't do anything but hollar at the dog and put it back in the house. We tell the family across the way that they better call police, they say they will and that this is the 3rd time that dog attacked their kid.(unbelievable) !!
Now we are feeling a bit scared because this dog attacked kids in front of our eyes. I get the Taurus 9mm out of the closet and put it in the desk drawer in the garage just in case because we are sitting out front watching the 3 year old play in the front yard. We never thought the neighbor would be so stupid as to let the dog out again.
Well 20 mins later the police still didnt show up and my wife says the neighbor came out with the dog again (I am in garage and can't see the front of their house). So i get the pistol and stick it in the small of my back and run down to the sidewalk to get my 3-year-old out of there. Well I put my son behind me and I see the neighbor wrestling the dog down in the street by it's collar (no leash or choke-chain). Well the dog pulls its head right out of the collar and runs right toward me (with my son about 2 feet behind me). I draw and fire 3 quick shots at it (it stopped dead about 2 feet from where I was standing, WWB target ammo). Then the neighbor says to me "you shot the dog???". I said "yep" and brought my kid in the garage and had wife call 911 immediately.
Now the cops show up and ask me what happened and I told them, they asked me if "my life or the life of my family member was in danger", I said of course it was. The police took statements of me and the people across the way whose kid got attacked first, They don't speak much english. The cop then said that the Seargent had to give him the OK on any shoot in the city limits (San Antonio). A few minutes later the cop says that seargent says all is ok, for us to go in and call it a night. Then I hear the cop get in an argument with the neighbor saying that the cop see's kids get mauled by dogs every day and I was in the right, but the neighbor said that it's all BS and there had to be something illegal here and if the cops don't take care of it then he will.
This is a terrible way to come to a new neighborhood, and I wish it never happened. But like my father said, I would be feeling a lot worse if my kid was in the ER with his cheek hanging off his face right now. From what we could tell these neighbors were friends with most of the folks in the culdesac (after it happened they were telling all the neighbors we shot their dog) and it seems like we are going to be the "crazy neighbors" in the culdesac now.... All because they let a vicious dog out... I thought german shepherds were supposed to be good with kids......
Some people are just nuts.."
Now A year later I feel I can talk about this freely. The statute is gone and I just wanted to let some folks know that nothing legal has happened at all to me or my family (I love TX). We are friends with the members of the culdesac. The children are not scared of weapons (still love shooting their .22 rifles at the farm). Most importantly the neighbors with the ex-viscious dog moved out two months after the incident. Our children have no aversion to our new neighbors' very large & very friendly dog. All that being said; this was mentally a difficult incident for us to be involved in.
"Let me start off with me and my family are dog lovers. Well, we just moved into a nice neighborhood last week. And the next door neighbors have a german shepard that tears the boards off in the backyard fence bordering our houses. I was going to buy some new lumber and rebuild the fence where he tears it up because I have 3 kids that like to play outside in the back, and I dont want them to have to deal with those things...
Well I haven't fixed the fence yet but today we're hanging out out front in the garage with the door open and the neighbor lets the dog out in the front and it goes after the two kids (about 5 and 7 years old) across the culdesac. Well it jumps down the 7 year old boy and the kids parents and my father-in-law run out there and scare the dog away. The kid ends up with just a large scratch or bite on his arm no ambulance or anything (luckily). The whole time the dogs owner is standing in his front doorway watching this... He doesn't do anything but hollar at the dog and put it back in the house. We tell the family across the way that they better call police, they say they will and that this is the 3rd time that dog attacked their kid.(unbelievable) !!
Now we are feeling a bit scared because this dog attacked kids in front of our eyes. I get the Taurus 9mm out of the closet and put it in the desk drawer in the garage just in case because we are sitting out front watching the 3 year old play in the front yard. We never thought the neighbor would be so stupid as to let the dog out again.
Well 20 mins later the police still didnt show up and my wife says the neighbor came out with the dog again (I am in garage and can't see the front of their house). So i get the pistol and stick it in the small of my back and run down to the sidewalk to get my 3-year-old out of there. Well I put my son behind me and I see the neighbor wrestling the dog down in the street by it's collar (no leash or choke-chain). Well the dog pulls its head right out of the collar and runs right toward me (with my son about 2 feet behind me). I draw and fire 3 quick shots at it (it stopped dead about 2 feet from where I was standing, WWB target ammo). Then the neighbor says to me "you shot the dog???". I said "yep" and brought my kid in the garage and had wife call 911 immediately.
Now the cops show up and ask me what happened and I told them, they asked me if "my life or the life of my family member was in danger", I said of course it was. The police took statements of me and the people across the way whose kid got attacked first, They don't speak much english. The cop then said that the Seargent had to give him the OK on any shoot in the city limits (San Antonio). A few minutes later the cop says that seargent says all is ok, for us to go in and call it a night. Then I hear the cop get in an argument with the neighbor saying that the cop see's kids get mauled by dogs every day and I was in the right, but the neighbor said that it's all BS and there had to be something illegal here and if the cops don't take care of it then he will.
This is a terrible way to come to a new neighborhood, and I wish it never happened. But like my father said, I would be feeling a lot worse if my kid was in the ER with his cheek hanging off his face right now. From what we could tell these neighbors were friends with most of the folks in the culdesac (after it happened they were telling all the neighbors we shot their dog) and it seems like we are going to be the "crazy neighbors" in the culdesac now.... All because they let a vicious dog out... I thought german shepherds were supposed to be good with kids......
Some people are just nuts.."
Now A year later I feel I can talk about this freely. The statute is gone and I just wanted to let some folks know that nothing legal has happened at all to me or my family (I love TX). We are friends with the members of the culdesac. The children are not scared of weapons (still love shooting their .22 rifles at the farm). Most importantly the neighbors with the ex-viscious dog moved out two months after the incident. Our children have no aversion to our new neighbors' very large & very friendly dog. All that being said; this was mentally a difficult incident for us to be involved in.
