I have 2 dogs and a fenced in yard. There are 4 neighbor kids behind us (2 families) who are between 6-9. A while back, the kids started paying more attention to the dogs. None of them have pets and from their questions it seems they have minimal knowledge of how to interact with or treat animals in general.
My son is also little and we are constantly talking about how to treat dogs.
The neighbor kids do what normal kids do. They aren’t horrible little demon children, but their parents complete lack of parenting makes me so bitter.
I am constantly having to tell them to not put their hands/sticks/random rocks/etc through the slats of the fence. I talk to them like I do my own son and explain that I want to make sure they and the dogs are all safe.
It’s now just impossible for me to have the dogs outside while the kids are out. They climb up on the fence to see the dogs and then they want the dogs to chase them back and forth along the fence line, and then the dogs go nuts and bark their heads off. Ive explained that the dogs really need privacy to go to the bathroom and everything I can think of to get them to stop. I asked the parents of the kids to keep away from the fence while the dogs are out and to NOT put anything through the fence and they just stare at me like I have 6 heads. It can’t be fun listening to them bark so you’d think they’d tell their kids to stay away from the fence and not antagonize the dogs.
Side note: our backyards are somewhat diagonal to each other so the kids are actually leaving their property to cross over to where our fence borders. So it’s not like we are all side by side where they don’t have an option of being near the fence line from their own yards.
Anyway, one of my dogs ended up getting really sick recently. He woke up vomiting early one morning and could barely move. The animal hospital was finally able to determine something was stuck in his intestines and needed emergency surgery. They ended up removing the object along with 6 inches of his intestines.
When the vet described what he removed from my dog and what he thought it was, nothing registered. I had no clue. A couple days later, they gave me the item during a follow-up appointment.
I knew right away what it was and where it came from. It was something that definitely came from them on that particular night before he got sick. They would have had to have stuck it through the fence and fed it to him.
I can prove it came from them but I can’t actually prove they stuck it through the fence or which kid did it. I doubt we could actually sue them but I need them to know their kids almost killed my dog and cost us several thousand dollars. I doubt any of them will actually give a shit though.
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