Okay, so I live in the county.. wonderful.. we have peace and quiet and lots of trees.  We love it..save one issue.

People do not keep their pets in their yards!  What is it? Live in the country so you don't have to fence your dog?  My daughter (6yrs) and I where heading down our street to her soccer practice and witnessed 3 dogs killing a cat.  I slammed on the brake, hit the horn, told my daughter to stay put and jumped out.  The dogs got one look at the crazy lady and dropped the cat and bolted.  The cat was already dead.  Here is the part that infuriates me... one dog, a choco lab lived in the driveway where the attack happened.  He has a fenced yard but they leave the gate open and the garage door cracked for him (what?!).. the other Lab (black with an under bite) lives across the field where the owners have a mansion.  The guy owns the McDonalds in town.  They have a kennel but they let the dog run loose.  The third is a Pitbull that nobody claims.  I went to the county sheriffs office and filed a complaint about roaming dogs.. I mean this could have been a child and the dog owners where not even home!  He told me that they are aware there is a problem but the county commissioner won't budget extra officers to form an animal control group for the county.

My friend lives on 12 acres behind our place.. she was out mowing and stopped at her mailbox on the road and a pack of dogs charged her - running across the road to get to her.  She jumped back on her mower hoping it would scare them away but they just circled her.. her son had to come out with a rifle and shoot two of them and the rest ran off.

We fenced almost our whole acre so we could keep our dogs in the yard and happy and safe.  We loved that we where moving onto a dead end lane where we could walk our dogs and watch our daughter ride her bike and stuff.  But no.. we have to load everyone up and head into town to the walking park to walk our dogs... our daughter has to be watched closely when she is outside the gate and my husband and I don't even walk our own road.. Our last walk (this is NOT an exaggeration) we had 9 dogs walking with us until we got 3 houses from our house.  A Malamute, the stray Pitbull, a Springer Spaniel, a weiner dog who almost got chomped during the stroll and the rest where Labs.. one yellow, 2 chocolates and the rest where black.  I ask you.. was that a pleasant walk?

There is also a man on a side street to us that picks up strays at the cemetary and has them spayed and neutered and brings them home - some are fenced and some run free. He is the brunt of many jeering jokes because he loads the whole pack of transplanted strays into his pick-up and goes to town - Anybody who is in town much has seen him here or there. 

At the risk of becoming very unpopular in my neighborhood I am considering parking my butt at the county commissioners office and making a major pest of myself or maybe an annonymous letter to the newspaper?

ACK...  No comments required I just had to spew this out so I can breath!

I would consider writing to the paper and getting to the commissioner attention that something needs to be done for everyone's safety....  

I be ticked to.  just because you live out in the country doesn't mean you can let your dogs roam all over the place....  beside, the owners needs to be aware that if their dog does something horrible to humans and other people's pets.... it's on the owners, that they have to pay that price....  

Wow! That's bad! The biggest complaint my parents have living in the country with loose dogs is poop in their yard.

A pack of dogs on the loose can be very dangerous. a friend of mine, had sheep, and gots she raised. One morning she went up the dirt driveway out to the barn, about 500 yards from her house. What met her was like a scene from a horror movie. Almost all of her animals, were dead, or missing ears, part of their legs etc. A couple of babies, got trapped behind one of the gates, and they were spared. Some of the ones that were not dead, were so severely injured, they had to be put down. Out to the side of the barn, were 5 dogs, mostly pit tor pitt mixes, licking their mouths, and panting at her. She ran back to get here gun, but was so distraught, she could not load it. This traumatized her greatly, causing her to have a nervous breakdown.

Wow that is an awful incident with the sheep!  How horrid!

I have learned since that the owner of the cat was also the owner of the Chocolate Lab.. In addition I learned that the people who owned the other lab also had a yellow dog that attacked a child.. the police came and took that dog.. the child was only scratched a bit when he was knocked down a neighbor ran the dog off before it got out of hand.  ALSO found out from a friend on the cross street that he Pitt mix lives in the woods but is fed by some of the neighbors who feel sorry for her.  THe house next to my friends has a screened in porch, they have a weiner dog and a TRT... The Pit Bull busted out two sides of their screened porche trying to get at their cat!  So probably that is the initiator of the cat attack that I witnessed.

I have two neighbors on board to sign a petition if I want to start it. LOL  My only worry is that I would become a target with my dogs if one ever got out or they get to loud or whatever..