German Shepherd Pyrenees Mix
german shepherd pyrenees mix
Should these dogs be put down?
My neighbor has 4 huge dogs (German Shepherd mixes and a Great Pyrenees). They came onto my property yesterday and attacked my 6 month old puppy who was playing in the yard. My puppy is now at the vet for the next week at least with blood loss and a shredded hind leg. Those dogs would have killed him if my son hadn’t run them off him. We have no county animal control and the city won’t take county dogs so I have to go to court. Could the court rule for these dogs to be put down? They attacked my puppy for no reason. I fear for my family’s safety now. These are HUGE dogs.
I didn’t see your first question till after you chose a best answer. Your best answer was excellent, but I added comments with more suggestions.
We don’t know where you live, so we can’t tell you what you can do legally. If you live in SE MO, I have a friend with pyrs who has problems with wild dogs in his area, many of whom live with neighbors who don’t feed the dogs and mistreat them which turns the dogs into vicious animals. As a pyr owner, I’m amazed that one was a pyr; that doesn’t match the pyr personality. They are not prone to attack. Pyrs posture and do pre-emptive barking to ward off predators, so if a pyr was in the group, that’s really bad and indicative that the dogs are not fed and are abused to make them vicious.
GSD’s however, are attack dogs. They ARE fighting dogs, and having them attack your dog doesn’t surprise me. Their owner is responsible for their viciousness. KKingS was right about the prey drive of the GSD’s but she was wrong about the pyr.
Check with your local sheriff to find out what recourse they offer since these dogs ARE a threat to your family and the sheriff should take some kind of action to prevent injury to the human members of your family, even if he doesn’t have any rules to guide him on protect your pup.
Ask the vet for extra copies of the bill, and give it to the neighbor and request he pay the vet. If he’s reputable, he will do so as it’s his responsibility since his dogs entered your property to attack your dog.
IF YOU DIDN’T TAKE PHOTOS, GO NOW TO THE VET’S TO TAKE PHOTOS OF YOUR DOG WHILE INJURED so you can prove all the damages done. You’ll also want a full written report from the vet on his letterhead indicating all the injuries.
You could take them to court on one of the TV court shows. Apply to be on judge Alex! He’ll give you a proper settlement.
A LOT depends on where you live and what the laws are there.
My friend in SE MO doesn’t have support. If you’re in SE MO, I can put you in touch with a man who has had to deal with wild dogs in his area and lack of good help from his sheriff and a bad “good-old-boy” attitude in his area.
I have a solution that you actually might do well with.
I already told you in comments on your other post to put up a hot fence. You get the supplies from TSC and put on a 50mi or 100mi Zareba charger. This will both keep your dog in, and keep the other dogs out. Once my friend in MO got his fence back in working order the wild dogs stay outside his farm property and he hears the wild dogs yelp when they test his fence line.
You could also do something that might really sound strange, but would work. After you fence, find a great pyrenees dog in rescue… an adult dog… and adopt it and socialize your pup to it. Pyrs are guardians, not attack dogs, not fighting dogs, and a pyr mate for your pup will guard your pup against this neighbor’s dogs. A pyr that is a member of your family (pack) will guard your pup and your human family (pack) members. A pyr will try to intimidate and run off intruders.
Your pup will be able to protect himself better as he gets older, but you have a serious problem. Below is a link to my shepherd/blue heeler. If you want to talk more, visit his site at Dogster and contact me there.
Some of your responders like Sunshine made several excellent comments, but they obviously do NOT understand about animals out in the country.
Bottom line: you do need fencing… but only a stong hot fence will keep those dogs out. -!-
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