WTF? My neighbors dog is injured!

ryan brown

ryan brown

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First off, my neighbors and I do NOT get along. They are the epitome of sh!tty neighbors.

BUT, they have 4 dogs, and I'm a dog lover. This morning I wake up to the sound of a dog howling in pain. I go outside to look, and the big dog, JD, is obviously hurt somehow.

Every time he stands up, he screeches in pain. He won't come to the fence so I can look at him, but it seems to be either a back leg, or his behind. This morning, his tail was wrapped tightly under his legs.

Anyway, I went over there this morning and rang the door bell to let them know. No response, but a few minutes later, JD was gone. I figured they took him inside or something, because I looked all over the back yard and didn't see him. These people are ALWAYS home, but one of their cars isn't there today, so I don't know what's going on.

I went out to smoke just now, and sure enough, JD was huddled on their back patio in pain. I think he may have been there the entire time, I just didn't see him earlier when I looked because of all the crap they have out there.

What should I do!! I've already talked to the other neighbors, but no one knows how to get ahold of these people. I have no idea what to do, but I can't just sit and watch this dog in his current condition. Do I wait for morning and call a vet? is there anything I can do right now?? It's really getting to me...
 
Call animal control. Maybe they have a policy concerning untended injured animals and can enlist police assistance to get to the dog.
 
Exactly what Sad Max said. It may put a further strain on your relationship with the folks, but no animal deserves to be in pain and not attended.

As long as you are doing it for the animal's sake, you will feel better about yourself, even if your neighbors think you did it as an attack against them.
 
What do you want? To help? or for them to help the dog? Its a differance.
Do you care? How much? there is a price for getting invloved. Are they dangerous people? CAn you reason with them? WIll your intervention lead to the dog getting an injection and put to sleep or will it lead to a better set of living conditions for the dog?
Would you be willing to take care of the dog?

I feel for your you and the dog.

If its them who have injured the dog I would go over with a base ball bat. If not and it is a matter of neglect I would have a talk with some authorty who could broker a discussion between you and them and see if you can find a better home for the dog. But its realtive at the end of the day pain is better than the grave.

Maybe you can make an anonomous call to some shelter who can promise not to put the dog down.

DogDay.
 
Thanks guys. Yeah, it's a sticky situation. The more I ponder it in my head, the more certain I am that the dog WAS taken inside today after I went over and knocked on the door.

They're sh!tty neighbors, but not the type of people to leave their injured dog alone. I'm assuming now that they took the dog inside and tended to it all day, and they just let him back out. There were a few hours where I didn't see or hear him.

Yes, I'd absolutely be willing to take the dog if that's what it took. I just went back out and he seems to be sleeping, so I think I'll wait it out and see what happens in the morning. If he's still in that much pain, or if it starts up again tonight, I'll go over there again and pound on the door, then call animal control.

-brown
 
Matt Grunau said:
Exactly what Sad Max said. It may put a further strain on your relationship with the folks, but no animal deserves to be in pain and not attended.

As long as you are doing it for the animal's sake, you will feel better about yourself, even if your neighbors think you did it as an attack against them.
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Video the whole affair, what the Vet says and does etc ....
 
you are in texas right? me too, call animal control, I called the police one time that I saw animal cruetly back in the day when I lived in an apartment complex, and sure enough old lady got the dog taken away and many many fines, I do not tolarate animal cruelty and neither should you, I am a cat lover myself but everytime I see or suspect something is wrong, I always try to do something about it even if it gets me in trouble
 
Call your local animal rescue. Dallas has a plethora of organizations that may be able to counsel on the most effective and best course of action to take. Or just steal the dog :) Does Dallas not have laws governing the number of dogs you can have?
 
ryan brown said:
Thanks guys. Yeah, it's a sticky situation. The more I ponder it in my head, the more certain I am that the dog WAS taken inside today after I went over and knocked on the door.
They're sh!tty neighbors, but not the type of people to leave their injured dog alone. I'm assuming now that they took the dog inside and tended to it all day, and they just let him back out. There were a few hours where I didn't see or hear him.
Yes, I'd absolutely be willing to take the dog if that's what it took. I just went back out and he seems to be sleeping, so I think I'll wait it out and see what happens in the morning. If he's still in that much pain, or if it starts up again tonight, I'll go over there again and pound on the door, then call animal control.
-brown
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Do it Ryan. This sounds bad.
If you think they are home when the dog is howling and they are not answering the door, there is definitely something wrong. Especially if they take it inside to hide it (can't say for sure but sounds possible). Regardless, if you care enough to write about this, then do what is best for the dog.
 
obviously you want to help the dog, but i would strongly encourage you to take into the consideration what type of people these are before calling animal control. do you think they are violent people? if you call they will assume it was you because you were the one that came over and knocked on their door. your relationship could get a whole lot worse very quickly.

if you don't think they're violent, but are just jerks then i would be more inclined to call animal control if you can't get in contact with them. just be careful.
 
Sorry for the delay... but update:

Nothing. I heard the dog cry out last night, and just as I was about to go out and do something, they took him inside. I haven't heard anything at all today, so I'm hoping they took him to the vet this morning, but he could just be inside. Either way, I'm sure they wouldn't just throw him in a room inside the house to hide him.

Like I said, the people aren't friendly at all toward me or the other neighbors, but they're not white trash hobo's or anything. It's a nice neighborhood we live in, and they always take care of their other dogs (the small one's that the "mom" likes), it's just the big dog they always leave outside.

I haven't seen them out, or heard the dog at all today, so I'm assuming they did something about it.

I will definitely heed all advice, and if I see the dog again and it doesn't look liked he's received treatment, I'm calling animal service's asap. As for now, I *think* they've done the right thing. I was on edge all night listening for the dog, and first thing this morning I ran out to see if he was out there. Haven't heard a peep.

I do feel much more relieved than I did yesterday. As long as they know that he's hurt and took him inside, I'm sure they're doing what they can to help him get better.
 
If I understood your earlier posts properly, they left an injured animal outside for a couple of nights without care, then took it into the house. I don't see what suggests that they've done anything beyond giving the dog a change of scenery; perhaps they noticed you checking on the dog and decided to get him out of your view.

They're your neighbors and you certainly know them better than I would, but I wonder if you might not be giving them too much benefit of the doubt.
 
Ditto what Max said. They are bringing it into the house to hide it from YOU, not to take care of it.
Put it this way:
you heard it yelping, obviously from pain;
you saw the dog with it's tail between it's legs confirming pain even though it is quiet;
nobody answered the door even though you thought they were home;
it disappeared from the back yard possibly confirming they are hiding from you;
you heard it yelp again the very next night indicating the situation is the same;
you are still stressing over it even though you want to think everything is ok----meaning your gut instinct is probably valid.

so what could explain the dog acting that way?:
A) intestinal blockage/obstruction
B) blunt force injury/broken bone
C) terminal disease

Ryan, there is no reasonable conclusion other than the dog is suffering, they are hiding it, and nothing is happening to change that----PLEASE MAKE THAT CALL NOW!
 
He did say that one of the cars was gone too didn't he? It is possible that they took him to the vet at some point.

If it doesn't seem like they have though, it's definitely better to be safe than sorry and notify animal control as suggested.

But, don't jump to conlusions and assume the worst... which I don't think you are, but others in this thread may be.

A dog goes to the vet, it doesn't necessarily come back home all better. Just saying. If you are reasonably certain that they have not had the dog checked out and it appears he obviously has something quite wrong with him, then you should definitely call animal control.

So, if they knew it was you that called animal control... It doesn't have to be some big.... oh, they are abusing their dog scenario.

Just, try to get in contact with them, and be polite and tell them you were concerned about the dog and wanted to make sure it was ok or what was wrong with it.

If they don't answer the door after several attempts, then a call to animal control b/c you were concerned about the dog and were unable to get in contact with the neighbors, does not have to be that big of a deal... and if it is... so what?

if they do answer and don't give some reasonable indication that they have had the dog checked out and/or know what is wrong with it, then call animal control and let them hate you more... so what?

In other words I'd rather have made every attempt to not jump to conclusions before calling animal control on them, than jump and immediately call them. They might hate you more either way, but at least one of the ways you followed proper protocol and did not jump to conclusions.

latae,
Jason
 
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