My dog was poisoned by my neighbor on purpose

[DisneyBamaFan]

Sorry it has taken a while to answer your questions. First off Champ made it through the night and is stable. He will have to stay at the vets till Monday.

This neighbor left a letter in another neighbors mailbox threatening to shoot any animal in her yard last week. She also tried to hit her small deceased dog with a stick in front of her and her children and then cursed her out. I tried to get her to go to the police but she did not.

Tuesday this week she found her bleeding from the bum and her dog died at the vet. The liver is being tested to confirm rat poisoning. I contacted animal control and asked about complaints about my dog. None on record. I also told her about poisoning suspicion. She was very helpful.

Yesterday when Champ was diagnosed by our vet, I went to animal control and she insisted I file a report. The Sherrif is now involved and investigating my complaint and the other neighbor complaint. The detective feels that the letter confirms her involvement.

I am very happy to hear that he is doing better. If the neighbor did this, I hope that it can be proven and she arrested...

 

[Carly_Roach]

Sorry it has taken a while to answer your questions. First off Champ made it through the night and is stable. He will have to stay at the vets till Monday.

This neighbor left a letter in another neighbors mailbox threatening to shoot any animal in her yard last week. She also tried to hit her small deceased dog with a stick in front of her and her children and then cursed her out. I tried to get her to go to the police but she did not.

Tuesday this week she found her bleeding from the bum and her dog died at the vet. The liver is being tested to confirm rat poisoning. I contacted animal control and asked about complaints about my dog. None on record. I also told her about poisoning suspicion. She was very helpful.

Yesterday when Champ was diagnosed by our vet, I went to animal control and she insisted I file a report. The Sherrif is now involved and investigating my complaint and the other neighbor complaint. The detective feels that the letter confirms her involvement.

I'm glad your dog is going to be OK.

I wish you the best of luck with your complaint, although I can see that the law may be on the neighbor's side if the animals were not in their owner's yards and are wandering at will. It's not illegal to have poisonous substances on your own property nor is it reasonable to expect others to watch out for the care and well-being of any animal that strays onto that owner's property.

So, these are dogs that are roaming free unleashed and unattended? Not that it gives her the right but, put your dogs in a fenced yard, on a leash, ect. They are not her pets, she didn't ask for them. My daughter was severely mauled by "the nicest dog ever" and her life will never be the same. It goes both ways as I see it. Keep your dog contained and there will be no issue for her or others that don't want dogs roaming. Just my two cents....

I will have to agree.

However, I hope the OP's dog gets better and she keeps him in her own yard from now on. It doesn't sound like this is a case where a neighbor threw poison into the dog's yard for him to eat (on purpose). It sounds like this is a case where dogs are allowed to roam freely and one neighbor got sick of it. The dog would have been fine if it had been contained to it's own yard.

 

[Jennasis]

If anyone is toting a handgun uninvited on your property, you need to have them arrested.

I'm fairly certain her post said she's been seen in her own yard with the gun. Not the OP's. But heck yeah, I agree with you. I might've even looked into pressing harassment charges for her shooting her gun off in her yard as intimidation towards the neighbors.

 

[TB'sWidow]

Sorry when I was young our dog snooky was poisned 4 times by neighbors by the 4th time she could not recover we had to put her downprayers to you an your family

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

If anyone is toting a handgun uninvited on your property, you need to have them arrested.

Amen!

 

[Carly_Roach]

We have been keeping the dogs inside and penned up since she started being an @$$. She has been seen around my yard and also in her yard toting a hand gun that she likes to target practice with when our kids get home from school. I will let the Sherrif investigate becuase sane people do not fall off their rocker and kill animals because they do not like them. She has proper channels through animal control and the animal control lady agrees that she is suspicious.

Letting the Sheriff investigate is the best thing you could do. Unless there are ordinances against firing a weapon within city limits (or within X many yards of another building or dwelling), this person has done nothing illegal. But the Sheriff will make that decision - not the people on the DIS.

I hope your dog makes a speedy recovery.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

still not clear on whose yard the dog was in.

If the dog was on its owners' property, or on public property, and the neighbor is feeding it poison, then there could be criminal or civil action involved. If the dog was on the neighbor's property and ate poison there, it's not so clear. In that case it could be deteriminant if she set poison out for invading critters, or if she fed the dog herself rather than call animal control about dogs on her property. Is the dog fenced or allowed to roam the neighborhood?

The gun's another thing. Is she shooting or pointing it at people or animals? Onto neighbors' property?

 

[Liberty Belle]

I'm glad he's doing better. I'd make sure I would clear of the neighbor.

Do what to the neighbor?

 

[JerseyJanice]

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's a leap to say that because someone threatened to shoot an animal that they'd turn around and poison them instead.

After Champ recovers--and I'm glad to hear that he is--I'd keep him away other people's property. And I'd keep him on a leash or confined inside a fenced yard. That will solve the problem of any neighbor either shooting or poisoning your dog.

 

[WBAC]

He was in our yard

 

[Heidict]

He was in our yard

So you think that she threw something over into your yard that had rat poison in it? This woman has some serious issues. Is she new to the neighborhood, or are you?

If dogs aren't roaming around and getting on her property then what is her problem?

 

[FireDancer]

Whether or not someone fits the medical definition of crazy requires a medical diagnosis, not a Dis board posting. Mean and heartless aren't necessarily crazy. Not everyone that kills human beings, even when premeditated, is "crazy" therefor everyone who kills an animal can't be assumed to be crazy.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I'm glad Champ is going to be okay.

Were you allowing him to roam in her yard prior to the threat or was she just making assumptions?

 

[Liberty Belle]

Whether or not someone fits the medical definition of crazy requires a medical diagnosis, not a Dis board posting. Mean and heartless aren't necessarily crazy. Not everyone that kills human beings, even when premeditated, is "crazy" therefor everyone who kills an animal can't be assumed to be crazy.

True, but I think crazy has more than one meaning and can be subjective, like "blue" or "pretty."

 

[Carly_Roach]

He was in our yard

If he's always in your yard and never gets out into her yard, then you may have a case if she intentionally threw something over the fence in order to feed your dog something that was poisoned. Proving it, however, will be difficult. Unless you can prove she threw something into your yard that your dog ate, everything else is merely hearsay.

 

[Bluestars]

Whether or not someone fits the medical definition of crazy requires a medical diagnosis, not a Dis board posting. Mean and heartless aren't necessarily crazy. Not everyone that kills human beings, even when premeditated, is "crazy" therefor everyone who kills an animal can't be assumed to be crazy.

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From the above definitions of crazy, it does not seem unreasonable that some posters view a person who kills pets as acting crazy. I agree with them. Anyone who abuses or kills pets is crazy. That is not normal behavior and they deserve to be put behind bars.

OP, I hope your pet pulls through. Are you sure he was poisoned and didn't just get sick? It seems unusual for a person to throw poison in another person's yard. But then again, there are a lot of crazy people out there.

 

[JerseyJanice]

He was in our yard

What proof do you have that he was intentionally poisoned? Do you have some of whatever you think was the bait?

I'm sorry, but I don't think threatening to shoot other people's dogs on her own property equals poisoning them on their owner's land. Some dogs are like goats--they'll eat anything. One time, my own dog actually ate a shingle with a roofing nail stuck through it. I've heard of dogs getting into lawn chemicals and antifreeze.

Unless you saw this neighbor throw something onto your property and found some food with poison in it, you shouldn't be so quick to accuse her. What she threatened was a lot different than poisoning.

 

[RachelR1978]

We have been keeping the dogs inside and penned up since she started being an ***.

This statement right here leads me to believe that you were allowing your dog to be a menace to this woman and she finally snapped. You refer to her as a 'crazy' woman. No doubt your dog drove her crazy! Not right what she did but I can understand her frustration.

 

[jmpurdy]

This statement right here leads me to believe that you were allowing your dog to be a menace to this woman and she finally snapped. You refer to her as a 'crazy' woman. No doubt your dog drove her crazy! Not right what she did but I can understand her frustration.

OP's statements do not imply she allowed her dog to be a menace at all! We have no idea what the chronology of events is that led to this neighbor doing something so vile. All we know is the neighbor made threats, two dogs are suspiciously dead or in need of emergency treatment.

If this neighbor made similar threats about children, would you also say 'no doubt your child drove her crazy! Not right what she did but I can understand her frustration'??? OP was asking for alittle support here and somehow became the bad guy?

 

[Jennasis]

Lots of assumptions being made 'round here. The sheriff will investigate and decide where the blame lies. I'm also stymied once again how people are harping on the use of the word "crazy". I also think my sister is "crazy" for wanting to stay in a condo instead of on-site at WDW on our next visit. It's a term often bandied about to refer to one who's judgement is questionable. Like people who wear white socks with black shoes!