Speaking of kids...dog related.

15 years ago

We're putting up a solid wood fence between us and the neighbors.Their "dear" grandson keeps picking on my dogs.He calls them out,then rushes at the fence screaming.Of course my dogs run up and down the fence trying to get at him.(It's chainlink now.) Also Rock came in with a cut right below his eye the other week,didn't think much of it.Dogs get hurt sometimes,thought he ran into a stick.Found out from another neighbor that the boy was poking at my dogs with a big stick!She told him to quit,but he didn't. Talked to his mother,didn't do any good,he's just playing.He knows he's doing wrong,if I go out ,he runs and hides. He's only about 6,but still....he needs to be taught better.

So the only solution we came up with is a solid fence.It's almost ready to go up,have to finish staining it tonight.

Cost me close 300 bucks but my peace of mind and my dogs sanity are worth it!

That kid is such a brat! He's the one that chased Spitz into my pond.I like kids,but not brat kids and surely not their Mother that thinks it's funny!!!!

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summer_tx
15 years ago
Good for you CR! If his mother isn't going to teach him better or repremand him for poking dangerous sticks at your dogs, what choice did you have. I'd have done the very same thing. I think you will LOVE the privacy fence a lot! Money well spent.
sjerin
15 years ago
What a sad family that is. That child will only go from bad to worse, without some good intervention. I'm glad you found a solution to protect your poor doggy.
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notjannaz10
15 years ago
Hey, CR!

I would plant cactus between the chain link and the wood fence. But I'm not fond of people who think it's fun to pester other people's dogs...

Jann
socks
15 years ago
We did a similar thing with a fence. No dog problem, but the house next door was a visual eyesore. It was a good move, gave us more privacy and we didn't have to look at the bare dirt and toilet in the front yard. It was costly at 100 feet of fence. Then they caught it on fire piling up their hot fireplace ashes next to it. They are gone now.
lynn_d
15 years ago
What a little brat! He could have just as easily poked your poor dog in the eye! I really have a problem with parents that fail to parent.
User
15 years ago
Good for you. My parents got me a puppy when I was little. The neighbor kids stoned it to death.
heather_on
15 years ago
Sounds like your fence is money well spent.
User
15 years ago
Problems inside that home. Stay out of it.
Good fences make good neighbors. Is that How they say it?

Adellabedella, I am so sorry that happened to you. I wish you could get the memory out of your head.
chubby_rat
Original Author
15 years ago
We got 3 sections up tonight,4 to go.It's so dang hot here and we are working on it after work.Should get the rest up tomorrow. They are trying to sell that house because the husband died.But even if it sells soon,I think I'd rather have the fence,what if the new people have bratty kids too? This way,we'll be covered. This fence is more work than we thought.Course we bought the lumber and built our own,saving about 20 bucks a panel to do it that way and looks just like the panels you buy.And it's a 6 ft fence,so should cover all angles! LOL!We're going to do the front yard later.The dogs don't go out front much.
I bet the neighbors won't like the fence,blocks their view down the street.
dotmom
15 years ago
I wouldn't give a rip that the fence blocks their view. That is so often how serial killers start, torturing animals. Lets hope they soon move away and more importantly the mother gets help for the kid.
kathi_mdgd
15 years ago
I hear ya CR,we went thru the same thing with neighbors quite a few years ago.We raised afghan hounds,and the kids next door were always teasing them as well.Then one day my kids came home from school and called me at work and said,"Mom you need to come home,something is wrong with alfie and sheik.

I rushed home only to find our pretty blonde dogs were covered in something purple,it was also all over the chain link fence,the grass etc.I called the next door neighbor,showed it to her and asked if she knew what it was.Come to find out she had bought this big a** bottle of gentian violet in TJ,and her kids got hold of it and threw it all over the dogs.

I took them to the vet,he said it wouldn't hurt them,but it would take time to wear off.I was glad they weren't hurt,but she wasn't happy when i gave her the vet bill.

Kathi
Dash2
15 years ago
If it were me, I'd have a sign at the top of the fence, facing that neighbor:

Any Damage Done To This Fence On This Side Of It Will Be Addressed By A Call To The Police and A Lawyer

That way the little brat's mother will be on notice that she may be amused but you are not.
chubby_rat
Original Author
15 years ago
Awwww! Peaceful day here! Brat kid couldn't see the dogs! (the panels that weren't nailed up were leaned on the fence)
Just makes me so mad! My dogs were always friendly and liked kids,now they sorta rush at him. We're afraid he'll get bit if he reaches through the fence.
Was just to hot today to finish,so we'll try to finish tomorrow.
Purple Afghans...oh my!
This kids sister used to throw nails in our pool when we had it up and stones against the house.Momma apparently doesn't make either one listen to good.

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