Thoughts on this... neighbour issue..

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Please note this is not me or my dog!!!!!

I'll try to give some background, My mum and dad live in a semi detached cottage which is perpedicular to the road, mum and dads house is furthest from the road. Both houses have a field infront and our horses go in next doors feild, but guy next door still potters around doing bits and bobs.

Anyway, mums dogs think all the way up to the road is their land and will bark at anyone coming on to it. Little Fudge (JRT)doesn't think B the next door neighbour should be in "her" field, so she runs up barking at him when he potters around doing his jobs.
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So - Fudge was out and ran up barking at the guy from next door, mum happened to see, he had a walking stick and propper swung it at her (mum said it looked like someone playing golf!!!), knocked her off her feet, and really hurt her.
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Mum picked him up on it and he knew he was wrong, but said she'd been bothering him...

Mum hasn't told dad, he would go round and knock him out for deffo!!!!
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But it is his land??

What do you think?? Fudge is fine BTW.
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Who owns field then , ur next door neighbour ? even if dog was bothering him , he has no right to hit your dog, he should have maybe shooed it away , or told your mum or you to get the dog away from him , I suppose the dog has the right to be in field as it is your field too , but maybe not unsupervised ,There is a dog where we are who comes into our field , chases the horses, and has no right to field at all, but I just shoo it away or tell owner.
 
Hmm tricky one really. He owns the field therefore he should not be expected to put up with a little noisy dog who is pestering him on his own property ... however you do rent space so you have a right to be in the field; whether Fudge has this right is really up to the landowner. I know I wouldn't put up with someone else's dogs bothering me or the horses who live here and would ask anyone who allowed their dog to do this, to keep it under proper control or leave it at home.

I guess at the end of the day, it is your (or your Mother's) responsibility to keep the dog under proper control and not let it run around bothering people. Sounds like B is totally peed off with the dog.
 
I think your mum has been quite rude in allowing her dog to bark at the neighbour.

I also think it was wrong of your neighbour to have hit the dog, but then he should never have been put in that position in the 1st place.
 
Sorry but I think your mum is at fault - The dogs should be confined to the garden if they are going to pester the neighbours. If it is the neighbours field (as I understand?) then this seems a bit like letting your dog into their garden.

My horses are kept on somebody elses land - I take the dog up to the yard with me but I wouldn't let her chase round unsupervised, getting in everybody's way
 
Mmm tricky one. I absolutely agree that the dog should behave better - surely he must know this person terribly well. However, for him to treat the dog like that is inexcusable.

Even if I was cutting my nose off to spite my face though - I would remove my horses, and tell him to stick it......

But I think most people would handle it better than that
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I dont agree with hitting the dog hard enough to hurt it but i'm afraid I feel that your mum and dog are in the wrong here. Some people just dont seem to think it is a problem for there dogs to run up to people barking and being a general pain in the arse. Different if it was a bigger dog! Sometimes yappy little dogs barking around your ankles are enough to drive you insane and if it's happened more than once then it's just not on anymore and whilst I dont want to defend his actions, if no one was there to control the dog what was he supposed to do to get it away from him and get him to shut up. He can say he felt threatened and concerned for his safety.You have to be so careful nowadays.
 
Thanks guys. I think Fudge will stay out of his way now, hopefully!!! I think he could have just asked that we kept her out of his way before it resorted to using her as a golf ball.
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No real harm done I guess.
 
It wouldn't have had to be politely!!
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I just think something along the lines of "Will you keep that fecking dog out of my field!!??" would have been a better way forwards than just bashing her!

If it had been a child it would not have been acceptable, so why a dog?
 
I think I already posted that I didn't agree with him hitting the dog (may have felt differently if it had been a child though)!!! However why should anyone have to request that someone else controls their dog??? Surely it is just good manners to keep your dog under control in the 1st place.
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Not picking an arguement or anything are you CS?!!
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I think the thing is mum didn't realise that she was bothering him. Obiously she won't let her go in their now.
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Why would it be such a difficult thing for him to communicate with them though? Why take it out on the dog and not the owners who are seemingly at fault?
 
Not at all. I was just genuinely surprised that you mum would allow the dog to bark at the neighbour and not call her back. I would have thought it would be just common curteousy/good manners to have stopped the dog barking at the neighbour.

I agree that it is a shame that the dog had to pay the price for the your mums lack of consideration towards the neighbour.
 
It's a shame, it really is.
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We've always treated it like our own feild as it used to belong to the old farmer across the road, he just let us do what we wanted with it. B next door said we could carry on doing the same.
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