Neighbor shot there dog

[misticaleclipse]

The sad thing is, even though the neighbor clearly has issues, they knew there dog was jumping the fence and could have prevented the dogs death. If it was not the neighbor shooting the dog then it eventually would have been a car or something else, they should be turning the finger back at themselves.

Neighbor Kills Dog

November 27, 2006

By Nick Spinetto

A Lehigh Acres family is fighting back after a neighbor shot and killed the family dog.

This week the family will replace their chain-linked fence with a privacy fence because every time they look into their neighbor's back yard, its like reliving Maggie's death.

"I keep seeing him shoot her and I'm like, why, why?" said Lori Haines, Maggie's owner.

She can't understand why anyone would kill her Wired Hair Fox Terrier, Maggie.

"It's senseless and it's something I'll never forget," said Haines.

Maggie was nicknamed Pogo by the neighbors because she loved to jump the fence and visit with other people.

"She was great. I'm mean everyone loved her. She just loved life," said Haines.

Saturday Maggie was in the wrong yard.

"Just as I went to say Maggie, he picked up a rifle said get. Then boom," said Haines.

The dog died after 6 hours of surgery.

The family says they were never warned by the neighbor.

In fact they don't even know him.

"What's to say this guy isn't going to flip out and come over and shoot us?" said Richard Goulden, Maggie's other owner.

Maggie was a part of the family, now Lori feels like a piece is missing.

"It kills me. It kills me," she said.

The family did seek a restraining order against their neighbor.

They are fearful of him, but since there wasn't a direct threat or confrontation they were not granted one.

WINK News tried to contact the neighbor but no one answered the door.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is now investigating.

So far no criminal charges or citations have been issued.



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[SiNNiK]

"their dog", not "there dog".

[PoodleMommy]

"their dog", not "there dog".

that was the most useful thing you could add?

that was a really sad story on both ends...

[squirtsmom]

That is awful. How traumatizing. That poor puppy.

[misticaleclipse]

"their dog", not "there dog".

It truly shows your colors as a person when you complain about grammar and don't comment on the article at all. Enough said.

[PoodleMommy]

It truly shows your colors as a person when you complain about grammar and don't comment on the article at all. Enough said.

what i was trying to say...lol

Elissa

[SiNNiK]

It truly shows your colors as a person when you complain about grammar and don't comment on the article at all. Enough said.

you owe it to your dog to protect it from neighbor's with guns, control your dog.

happy now?

[Gig 'Em Ags]

What a tragic end for the dog!!! My heart goes out to the owners!!!

[Julie]

This week the family will replace their chain-linked fence with a privacy fence because every time they look into their neighbor's back yard, its like reliving Maggie's death.

A privacy fence is about 6 foot high. I bet if they did that first, this would have never happened.

Maggie was nicknamed Pogo by the neighbors because she loved to jump the fence and visit with other people.

Irresponsible owners!
If you can't tell my big pet peeve is dogs running loose and disturbing other people and their dogs that are being responsible.

I don't condone shooting a dog for a reason such as reported in that article, other less extreme options seem to be available.

It is a sad story all around!

[Zoom]

Very sad story. The owners were full aware of the problem before hand and putting up the privacy fence would have gone towards alleviating that. Of course, the neighbor shouldn't have shot the dog either.

[Laurelin]

It's sad. The owners really need to take care of their dog.

We had a neighbor a house ago that had a dog that always got out. The problem with this dog, though, was that it was incredibly dog and people aggressive. My father and I were out one night and he got out of the car to check the tire and the dog ran up and lunged at him. He only got it off by hitting it across the muzzle with the metal buckle on his hat. He was really lucky he wasn't bitten. The dog got out all the time and we had a lot of people in our subdivision, including little children. Not to mention loads of pets, and you could not walk yourself (let alone your dog) down the street with this dog around. This dog was an obvious threat, but the owners wouldn't do anything. You'd tell them their dog got out and that it was aggressive and all they'd say was that it was fine with their family and inside. It's like, well, then... KEEP YOUR DOG INSIDE! Needless to say Animal Control wouldn't do anything because it hadn't actually bitten anyone, and the people could care less. I know of several people that said they would shoot the dog without hesitation if it ever got on their property. The owners just said the same old thing, she's fine when she's with us so she can't possibly be aggressive. We just don't know how she gets out of the yard. (And apparently they made no effort to keep her there) Anyways, to make a long story short, the dog vanished and I never found out what happened. Did someone finally kill it? Did the owners surrender it? Who knows... It's sad all around. If the people would have kept their dog inside and confined, they'd have had no problem.

Although, this dog didn't sound aggressive or a threat to nearby kids and pets. It's very sad though...

Seems to me though, if you love your dog as much as you say you do, you'd do everything you could to keep your dog contained at all times.

[muggsies16]

Where we live it is the norm, too shoot a dog! If the dog is running at large, into farmers fields or live stock, Bang their gone! Now I can not say, what the local Police would do, in this situation. But I know, I would not let my dogs loose just in case. I always watch my kid Muggsies! Sad story too bad for the dog!

[Bahamutt99]

Dogs that run loose get shot, get killed by cars, and various other nasty things. It wasn't that long ago that we were talking about the dog that was supposed to have been shot by a hunter. Loose dogs also do things like bite people, spread parasites, tear open trash bags, chase other peoples' pets, and various other nasty things that the owners wouldn't even know about because they aren't there. (I feel the same way about loose cats.) If someone shoots a dog that is responsibly confined, that's criminal. If they shoot a dog that has wandered into their yard, in many places that's legal. Property owners have a right to protect their home and family, as grim and unfair as that may seem.

Its not reality to believe its cute when a dog goes visiting, and that a neighbor who would shoot a trespassing dog would also come and murder your family. But it is reality that dog ownership is under attack in various ways right now, and by letting a dog run loose, you are contributing to the problem. You are adding more momentum to the laws which are being introduced to regulate what breeds we can own, how many dogs we can keep, what sizes they can be, that they must be altered, that they must be microchipped, that they cannot be chained but must be kenneled, that they are not allowed in apartments, etc etc etc.

Disclaimer: "You" does not mean YOU. It is a general term.

[ToscasMom]

1. I'm glad I don't have that person's neighbor
2. If the dog was leaping fences regularly and "visiting" everybody, obviously she was wrong that
"everybody" loved her dog. Who among us would have cheerfully allowed this to go on and still would have felt good about our dog's safety, much less our neighbors' perception of our courtesy?

Sadly, this owner is just is responsible for the death of her dog as the nutball who shot it. Citations don't get written for being a miserable SOB who hates dogs on his property. The man might have been afraid of dogs in general or he might just be a miserable SOB. We don't know. What we do know is the owner was damned irresponsible for allowing her dog to do this kind of thing regularly. A higher fence was in order. Too bad they are thinking about a different fence after the fact.