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Am fuming probably should be in aibu but

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MillyMollyMoo · 16/04/2010 20:58

Next door caused that much fuss about our puppy last year climbing through the fence and doing his business in their garden and more to the point refusing to fix the shared fence so he couldn't do it, that we rehomed him.
It wasn't the only reason by far but if he'd been able to play in the garden plenty of other issues would have been easier to live with to say the least.
Well they have just informed me they are getting a new dog, not just that but one that grows to 68kg's and poo's like an elephant.
Am so cross they are either going to fix the fence when it suits them to have an animal or think that they are going to inflict the dog on us when our children had to loose theirs

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Notalone · 17/04/2010 20:00

I feel sorry for your neighbours and sorry for the poor puppy that you hated and sorry for you because you really can't see past your own nose.

shesdrivingmecrazy · 17/04/2010 20:02

I love this poster - such good value for money!

Didn't realise it wasn't just birth you could talk bollocks about MMM!

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:24

Bloody marvelous

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8627361.stm

Alouiseg - What type of person gets a dog before a. securing their property or b. being prepared to supervise the animal.
They've done exactly the same with a dog three times the size and still no fence.

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rainbowinthesky · 17/04/2010 20:27

Millymollymoo - you have no idea whether or not they are going to train and supervise the dog neither of which you did. The link you posted to I expect was a dog who wasnt trained properly by owners who had no idea what they were doing. SOund familiar?

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:27

For those hard of reading look at the suspected breed, 10 children including their own and either side and tell me you wouldn't be concerned.

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GypsyMoth · 17/04/2010 20:28

heard this on the news earlier and just KNEW you'd post!!

thing is mmm,its down to the owner....again!

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:30

Rainbow the point everyone is choosing to ignore is that they will not be able to do anything different, at least at first it'll be an untrained baby, that will shoot out the door everytime one of their kids runs in and out of the house as kids do and since there's no fence the inevitable will happen. Having now seen their dog it's the size of a small pig already, it wouldn't have to do anything wrong to knock the kids flying and hurt them, completely aside of any other issue.

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rainbowinthesky · 17/04/2010 20:32

We have a larger dog and it's probably knocked dd over once in the 3 years we've had it. DOnt judge everyone by your own standards. You have no idea how they are going to be with it.

Vallhala · 17/04/2010 20:38

So next door's dog is a Mastiff then?

WRT the BBC report, the child concerned was in the kitchen. She hit the dog with a hammer, which is why the dog turned on her.

OF COURSE THIS IS AFAIK NOT TRUE. I DON'T KNOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE TRAGEDY.

THE POINT IS, NEITHER DO YOU MMM.

So, apart from deflecting attention fromyour own selfishness and yet again adopting a "it's the dog's fault" stance, your point is...?

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:44

Val I really genuinely do not care if you think I'm selfish.
My dog wasn't put to sleep he was rehomed.

On other threads we've had the usual "my child hits our dog/pokes his eyes etc etc and he never bites" crap. Well on this occassion the dog has killed, if it wasn't in the house with the three children it couldn't have killed, end of.

And now we have one next door .... you'd be ok with that would you ... oh and I'll say it again still no fence.

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OhFuck · 17/04/2010 20:45

Deed not breed, MMM.

Having any dog cornered in a room with a wobbly, unpredictable toddler who threatens the dog is a risky situation. It's a tragedy, a terrible tragedy, but dogs do not rampage up and down streets looking for children to murder. In any dog attack, the exact circumstances are contributary.

Your ignorance knows no bounds and I find your use of this desperately sad event to bolster your own little argument really distasteful.

GypsyMoth · 17/04/2010 20:47

no,no fence,but you had your chance didnt you....still do!

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:47

OHFuck - it's the sheer size of it, how would I or the woman next door pull it off our children when it's bigger than us ?
No dog is 110% trust worthy but my chances of getting a yorkshire terrier off the children alive would be very much increased over this one I'd suggest.

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:48

No threeboys I HAVE NO MONEY

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GypsyMoth · 17/04/2010 20:49

you've been advised of cheaper alternatives....

rainbowinthesky · 17/04/2010 20:49

COuld you have pulled off your labradoodle?

I couldnt pull my dog off but I control it by having trained it, continely training it, supervisign, training children etc. THose things you didnt do.

OhFuck · 17/04/2010 20:51

MMM I think most posters here would be happy with any breed in the neighbouring houses. This is the Pets forum.

In my surrounding streets we have a Dogue de Bordeaux, a couple of Malamutes, a Rottweiler, and a fair few Staffies and Staffy crosses. We also have loads of Labs, Springers, Cockers and Terriers, along with the odd Collie. I know almost all of these dogs through my work. I have absolutely no concerns for my child's safety while he plays in the garden (with or without my own two dogs) because my garden is secure enough for dogs and secure enough to protect my child from dogs (and stop him escaping too). Even the frankly psychotic Jack Russell with a taste for my blood who goes past a couple of times a day is zero threat to my child. Partly because he doesn't care about my kid minding his own business in my garden and partly because if he did care, he couldn't get him anyway.

Maybe you need to move (to Fort Knox?)

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:52

And I've told you and others, we explored cheaper alternatives, not viable, without posting pictures of our house you'll just have to take my word for it the cheapest option was £2k, I've since found out from the other neighbours not only that but the hedges are protected so quite simply there is no option for putting up a B&Q fence, it wouldn't be allowed so we'd be back to the first idea which was quoted around £3,500.

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rainbowinthesky · 17/04/2010 20:53

Could you not have just made a run in the garden for your dog? You could have done it yourself for a couple of hundred easily.

thisisyesterday · 17/04/2010 20:55

you could put a fence behind the hedge., you don't need to rip it out

OhFuck · 17/04/2010 20:56

Your dream home?

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:57

Rainbow he was a baby, we took him out in the garden on his lead he was fine, the moment the back door opened with the children running in and out he legged it out the door and straight into the neighbours garden.
A run wouldn't have made the blind bit of difference because you'd have to put him in it, this wasn't when he was under control or on the lead it was when he was lying happily on the sofa one minute and seeing an opportunity the next.

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:58

thisisyesterday, that's what costs so much, it's not a small garden I thought I'd made that point.

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MillyMollyMoo · 17/04/2010 20:59

YOu joke OhFuck but that's where he ended up

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rainbowinthesky · 17/04/2010 20:59

Then you train the children not to let him out with them. My dd was 3 when we had our dane puppy and she could get him to sit, lie down etc at this age.