Posted: 6/14/2005 8:54:37 PM EDT
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I stepped out of my house today and was heading for the car when the new neighbor across the street opened his front door. His two full-grown Rotts came charging out of the door running at full pace heading my direction. Then they stopped at the property line, took a couple leaks and then went back inside promptly when he called them. Sorry, that's all that happened. I did keep my eye on them though. |
Actually, I'm more worried about my 5 year old. I was a little relieved to see that they responded so well to his commands. When he spoke, they were listening! |
Go over and meet your neighbors. Ask if you can meet the dogs.... I bet you would make 3 new good friends. 
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I think I'll wait and see if I bump into them at a car wash. |
Didnt mean to imply that I shoot dogs all day, or belive one should, Unless you work for the FBI/BATFE and get paid for that sort of thing  Its just I tend to get ansy when 110# of teeth and muscle times 2 are coming at me........Udog
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Normally, I'd respond to such idiocy, but you're from California which means that you would need an interpreter. 
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110 pounds? my little one is 93, the big one is 147 they are very friendly, and they love kids, they have been known to run up to 2 year old kids and flop right down and roll over with their legs in the air as stated before, rotts are about as agressive, actually less agressive than any lab that i have ever seen, the only thing that i am concerned with is peoples perception, my dogs bark when they ar goofing around, and it sounds mean, but it is not an angry bark... but if you do not know them it could be scary see two rotties coming? be nice, and talk to them, most are just big puppies, I would make friends with your neighbors dogs, bring them puppy snacks, they will love you for it, rotts are known for adopting people as part of their family, when they decide you are cool they will look out for you also no bad guy could touch my family, or any of the neighbors |
Shoot em, shoot em all! [how's that?] Patty
Well, that can at least put the urine back in the bladder! Those dogs would have been VERY close to the end of their life cycle. A few more steps is about all i would give 2 charging rots! |
| One of my neighbors has a HUGE Rott, and he's just a big playful scary looking puppy-dog AFAIC. Very friendly, but I wouldn't go breaking into their house. He'd never hurt anyone from the neighborhood though, and gets along well with the other dogs in the `hood. |
Are you my new neighbor? 
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just hope he's around 24/7 and his house is locked down like ft. knox...he sounds a little irresponsible to me. |
+1,000,000 The dogs should NEVER be percieved as a threat by a neighbor. Any dog that size should NEVER run directly at someone they don't know. That is threatening. If he is a nice guy work it out over a beer. If he thinks it is funny that his mutts frighten people he is an asshole. If he is an asshole - see above. Make sure he knows you won't wait for an incident before fixing the problem. And that you WILL cap his dogs before you worry about your kid. |
The dogs weren't running at me. They were running in their yard. I just would have been the natural extension of their path if they have continued. Which they didn't, or even show a desire to do so. |
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Johnny, OK, cool. I interpreted your ffirst message to mean they were locked on YOU and only stopped cause they reached the end of their yard. I know this is a contentious issue. And worrisome. If a neighbor has a large potentially dangerous dog he also has some responsibilities. These don't apply if he owns a beagle or yorkie cause if they bite your kid the results isn't deatth or mutiliation. 1) the dog must ALWAYS be under control. 2) no one should ever even FEEL threatened on public property or their own property. 3) if the dog has a bad attitude I better not even SEE it. I have neighbors with large dogs. Most are big puppies. I even happen to like Rotts. I don't like some of the assholes that own them. They bought them to make up for the lack of assertiveness in their own lives. Not all owners - just some. Same as pit bulls. A percentage of them buy these dogs for the wrong reasons. You can usually tell what is what by meeting them together. If the dog is nonaggresive and the owner friendly then probably no problem. This still doesn't change the 3 rules above. They apply to pretty much any dog over 50 pounds. |
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My brothers neighbor has some mean ones. They keep the dogs in the back yard and the kids swingset in the front yard. Why they keep dogs they admit would eat their kids is beyond me, I guess they might fight them, they do live in Memphis. My brother told him he likes the dogs, but if they ever come out of that fence near his little girl they will die. DISCLAIMER: I KNOW NOT ALL DOGS ARE BAD, THESE ARE, BY STATING THE ABOVE I AM NOT AFFIRMING THAT ALL ROTWIELERS ARE VICIOUS. HOWEVER, WHEN AN OWNER KEEPS HIS OWN KIDS FROM THEM YOU CAN SAFELY ASSUME THAT THESE DOGS WERE RAISED TO BE MEAN. Read my post one more time before you respond. |
They're big dogs, which does concern me. However, after seeing the way they responded to his commands, that relieved me a bit. I'll be watching for them in the future just to make sure though.
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I would talk to your neighbor about introducing the kids to the dogs in a controlled setting so that they can get to know each other. Then, have the kids play with them every once in awhile. After a couple of those visits the kids will look forward to seeing the dogs and not panic, and the dogs will stick up for the kids if the need arises. However, if the dogs training is weak, I wouldn't put kids near them on purpose, only if they are as disciplined as you initially observed. shooter |
I volunteered (was drafted) to help one of the ADA's move some furniture to her new house, I did sort of know she had rottweilers, but was still kind of when the two pony sized monsters came ripping around the corner into the kitchen, I was definitely wondering whether it was going to turn into BANG! BANG! THUMP! REND! GOBBLE! GOBBLE! Of course other than having to do some ducking and bobbing to keep my face from being licked they were fine.While I was talking to her I noticed her tv screen was kind of strange looking. There was some animal planet type show on and whenever they showed the dog (a little poodle being groomed) one of the dogs licked the screen. I am not sure whether she was showing affection or after a tastee treat.  Did keep the tv screen clean.Rotties do seem to attract scumbag owners, which combined with a dog that has aggressive tendencies makes for a dangerous combination. I see plenty of the local hoodlums with rotties in their cars (usually trying to smash out the windows of the beat up truck in the grocery store parking lot so they can start munching on the yummy looking shoppers coming in and out). But then one of our local police officers loves the beasties and everyone who has gotten one of his dogs says they are great (I think the ones the ADA had were from him). I later saw her have to prosecute a dangerous dog case (don't know the breed for sure but think it was a rottie). The dogs had bitten three people walking by the house. I think the owners didn't realize how close they were to that ada kicking the snot out of them for their handling of that dog. We've had a couple of rottweiler attacks in my neighborhood. Two of them ran up to a young prengant woman and her mother who were out walking their dog, they killed the lady's dog and ran off, but then the only dog I ran into trouble with was the stupid lab that the dorky liberal lady around the corner has. She was opened the car door for him to go into the house and he lit out after me, I was dumb and backpeddled 4-5 steps trying to get away, which of course just got him going-I finally calmed down enough to stop and he was snapping at me, but still a few feet away and looked like he was trying to get up the stones to advance on me again-he did break off when she started calling him, frickin' witch "Oh he won't hurt you." It was too dark and the angle was wrong I think for her to see that I had had my hand on my pistol.  I should've turned her in.
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Roddys are not agressive dogs by nature . If the guy hasn't screwed them up with some kind of training , you should be able to make friends with them very easily . If you are going to live across the street from them , you might as well get aquainted with the dogs and the dude . |