At first it was just the dog coming into our backyard.
Then it was the dog trying to get into our house.
The dog has on multiple occasions tried to attack my dogs (two of the dogs she’s tried to attack are now dead, I suspect they were poisoned).
My 76 year old mother and my 11 year old nephew have had to grab her and try to return her to the property, only to be told by the renters, “It’s not our dog.”
Tonight, May 13, 2023, she broke through the fence again, and got into our backyard. I opened my office window to see that our motion light was on. I could also see the dog, a 60+ pound Husky, in my backyard. When she saw me, she tried to jump up the patio furniture into my office. We have two chihuahuas we adopted from Animal Services last summer named Sterling and Sliver, so I went to the back patio door to see what they were barking at. I could see the husky’s nose through the top of the block in the doggie door, as we have to barricade our dogs inside at night and when we leave the house.
That is when I called the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff.
As I waited for the officer to arrive, I went on my porch to wait. That is when the husky ran up the sidewalk, onto my porch and tried to attack my dogs through the screen door. I tried to move her away so I could get back inside my house. She tried to bite my hand. I did move her off and get back inside.
I told my mother what happened. Then my nephew (11 years old) said the Sheriff had arrived.
I opened the front door to find the dog still on my porch. The office never came to my door to talk to me. He shined his flashlight around. I told him I could not leave my house because the dog tried to bite me and she was on my porch. He still did not come to me. My porch light (also motion detecting then turned off and I could no longer see the dog. I told the officer this, he still did not come to my house.
He finally said the dog was confined to a cage and asked me to come down my driveway to meet him.
I told what was going on. Then the owner of the dog showed up. Told him I had pictures of the dog in my yard, where the officer then turned away from me and when to talk to them for an extended period of time. They said they had the material to fix the fence. (No idea why they haven’t, the pallet of fence boards have been back there for a year. We know this because of the holes the husky has made in the fence.) The officer and the people, a man and woman, talked for about 5-10 minutes. They made a comment about my nephew and having a court date. I do not know how these people know this. They also insist it is our responsibility to fix the fence. None of my dogs have ever broken through the fence to their property to the best of my knowledge. The fence on that side is old, and yes it does need to be replaced. This is something I can no longer do because of four heart issues, that I now have a CRT-D device implanted in my chest to help with.
I had told the officer about my CRT-D when he called me down my driveway. He then told the people that he was not going back to talk to me because “the yard looks like a jungle.” He never gave me his name or a card for contact.
The officer did tell them they should get some metal wiring to keep the dog under control and that they needed to keep the dog under control.
The man then left in his Honda Civic sedan.
After finishing with the people next door, he got in his Tahoe and left. I went back in my house, noticing his vehicle slow as my porch came back on when I went inside. Yes, I heard everything. I wish I had recorded it.
