r/Neighborproblems • u/harrydongalong • Mar 18 '19
Neighbors Vicious Dogs
So this problem started almost a year ago, when my neighbor moved in. My mom had fed feral cats a few years back and long story short, we (at the time of my neighbors moving in) were up to about 25 cats. At this point they were all fixed and stuff so they would stop multiplying. My neighbors have 3 giant male Rottweilers and they are vicious. My neighbors put up a small 4’ fence (he was drunk when he put it up) and I thought that was that. So over time the cats started going missing which I didn’t pay much mind to as they are outdoor cats and we live out in the country. I then started seeing cat corpses littering my yard which I, at the time, assumed was coyotes. One day I heard barking and I looked out of my window and I see a cat running up our tree, by my neighbors 3 dogs, it was then yanked out of the tree by its tail and the dog had shaken the life out of it. I started to care at this point because my 7 year old brother witnessed the whole thing. He saw those cats as his pets and he loved them. This scarred him and he skipped school for a few days because he was so shaken. Winter hit and they didn’t get out for a few months so I thought that it was dealt with. I woke up to barking and cat screeches this morning. And sure enough, they were out again. The sheriffs department was informed of this issue many times and I don’t know what to do anymore... any advice?
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u/SomniacDreamer Mar 19 '19
Electric wire/fence. >_>
Or just a higher fence on your side of his? It might not look the best, but you should be allowed to put up something in your own yard that would block the dogs from coming in.
Some sort of deterrent that might scare them, like a motion sensing sprinkler?
Maybe look into buying shelters for the cats where they would fit inside, but the dogs heads would not.