To be annoyed with my neighbour when my dog bit her ds

[RedTartanLass]

When my dog squeezed through my neighbour's fence and killed her pet rabbit, I warned her that she should make sure all the gaps in the fence were secure as my little dog can squeeze through anything.

Roll on 2 weeks and my dog got through the fence again and bit their ds, AIBU to think it's my neighbour's responsibly to look after her ds by ensuring my dog can't get into her garden.

Does this mean an end to all those other contentious threads that turn into 'Which witty regular mumsnetter has namechanged in order to amuse and bamboozle?'
I've been got by a couple of those recently.

They are funny when they work though. This one doesn't.

it's comparable - dog is not sufficiently controlled, enters private property and attacks something/someone

pretty much same scenario?

valhalla the dogs which have killed small children on private property have been put to sleep like nobodies business.

People on here get a bit hysterical about dogs. Go and argue your point on the original thread, OP- this is just going to repeat everything.

got to say that as a relative newcomer to mumsnet this sort of sneaky cross-thread point making does you all a disservice: make you all look like a lot of bitchy little madams. thought we'd left school behind. hard to take anything any one says seriously now.

Hey RTL - long time no see. It really is 5 yrs since we came on MN - or almost anyway

I must have heard that about eight times this weekend from new posters. If you don't like it here, feel free to try netmums- they are more moderated. It is rude to show up new and slag the place off too, you know. Sorry you are getting it in the neck from me over this- I hope you do start enjoying the place and stay, but I am getting a bit irritated by that kind of remark. As I say, it is rude.

If a dog came into my garden & bit my child the dog wouldn't need to be put down. I'd see to that myself.

Oh, and - TROLL.

Well I recognised the subject so I was amused It did sound mad, but of course so was the original thread.

I have a dog and worry constantly about her behaviour around small children. I would do anything to stop her attacking another animal let alone a child.
Please take action now and talk to your vet about your options.
If you were my neighbour I would phone the police.

Do people not bother reading anything other than the OP?
Rather spoils the point of having a thread then.

I am not sure why you think coming on a site called 'mumsnet' and making an analogy between the worth of a child's wellbeing and the worth of a chicken's and/or a dog's wellbeing is going to meet with a positive response.

Are you some kind of extreme ALF type of person?

Sorry this thread isn't going the way you intended RTL

I knew you weren't a troll

Although I have to say that I don't much care about chickens while I do care rather a lot about children

tide - if you came to live in a new city and discovered one person there who was a 'bitchy little madam', would you assume that everyone in the city was the same?

Because that's the kind of assumption you're making now, given the number of posters there are on MN.

(Disclaimer: I am not, btw, endorsing the description 'bitchy little madam', just quoting it).

Rusty bear: sure this is the first thread I've come across like this, but it does make me doubt the sincerity of all the rest a bit.

And bit of fun: surely the fact that you've heard the same complaint from other people not just me, might make you think there's something in it? Don't see how it's rude to not want to read people slagging each other off for the hell of it.

I'm a Bear of Very Little brain, and all this pretending to be someone else is confusing me.

Well, BoF and tide; I am also a relative newbie (6 months and counting), and it's comments like BoFs which make me stay.

And I'll fight anyone who disagrees with me in the playground at 3.30.

hi tether ('tis me, Jamie)

Jamie!

How goes it on the other thread?

Redtartan, whether the hole is in her fence or not, you are the owner of the dog and therefore responsible for any damage the dog causes, unless it is restrained.

Whether you think this is unfair or not, doesnt come into it, its the LAW.

So it is down to you to take any precautions necessary to ensure your dog cant cause any damage.

oh another thread about thread about thread. I cant keep up.

tether - I have made re-entry. Mad as ever

Yesterday I made a cataclysmic cock-up of the tether variety by mixing up my threads and posting something inappropriate - take a look

OP you are demented.

You have a dog - make sure it can't get out of your garden. No more to it than that.

Who the hell do you think you are asking other people to be responsible for your animal?

PS I love dogs, just sometimes they have idiotic owners!

On that original chicken thread, someone on the first page said dogs who chase chickens will chase toddlers, someone else possibly the OP on this one mentioned children being "savaged". People are getting hysterical about dogs, as a dog owner Im constantly having to defend my dogs, who have NEVER bitten a person or child or ever attempted to or even growled at a human, one of them would kill a chicken in a shot though.
I feel like a smoker in the days of the smoking ban debate.
Just because young men (generally) in inner cities are using as status symbols and weapons does not mean all dog owners should be tarred with the same brush.