please can anyone help me they are going to destroy my dog on Tuesday and I know she didn't mean to kill her?

Question

If any one has any ideas please let me know I was given a ticket the on the sixth of Jan. For my three year old Rotwiler-Pit Bull The officer claims that on the first of Jan. My dog ran next door un-provocked and grabbed their toy puddle in her mouth and then dropped her They took her to the vet and was told she had a broken back there was nothing they could do She was ten years old and in very poor health She did'nt make it through the night I got a ticket for $240.00 and a notice saying my dog was dangerous and I have two options 1st is register her as a dangerous dog and pay $50.00 dollars reg. fee get a kennel and $250.000. Liability coverage 2nd is to appeal the decision by paying the court $300.00 for coast of an attorney This is a nonrefundable I never heard of that I was told there is no other way to appeal I have no money! My dog is not bad this is the first time ever I love her she is my child.they are going to kill her and I can't even get anyone to lesion they just want $

Answer 1

this is a tough situation. i would look online dont give up

Answer 2

If you want the dog back, then you have to register the dog, buy the kennel, pay the fine, etc. I also would advise investing in some proper obedience training to help control your dog. You say you do not have the money for this, but you must find the money. You have brought an animal into your home with the intention of taking proper care of it. You have failed to do this thus far, and you failed to take into consideration the monetary costs of pet keeping. Between food and vets, a dog can cost as much as $1000 a year on average.

If you truly cannot find the money, then your dog will be destroyed, and you should think long and hard before you get another one, and you should consider a smaller and gentler dog than a rott-pit mix. I used to raise Stafford-shire Pit Bull Terriers, and they can be the most gentle dog in the world, but they are stubborn and independent and training takes a strong will and commitment. If you do not have what it takes to properly raise a pit bull/pit bull mix, then get another kind of dog.

And remember, there are no bad dogs, only bad owners. You have been a bad owner!

Answer 3

You shouldn't pay the fines. Instead, you should destroy the dog. Your dog is very dangerous and a killer.

If you don't destroy the dog and the dog hurts someone, there is a very high probability that you will go to jail. The money issue is not important. What is important is that you are knowingly keeping a dangerous animal around and maliciously refusing to take the steps necessary to protect the safety and welfare of the community. That's a crime. If the dog then hurts someone, it becomes a SERIOUS crime.

Your best bet to protect your life from being destroyed and spending the rest of it suffering horribly is to just get it over with and destroy the dog. You are only fooling yourself as to his nature and that has VERY high consequences. Quite frankly, I don't understand why the animal control people haven't done so already.

Answer 4

Look, I don't mean to come off sounding mean or anything but, just as a driver is supposed to be in control of a car at all times, so is a dog owner responsible for their dog and its actions. It doesn't matter that the other dog was old or in poor health. That doesn't change the fact your dog caused its death. Your dog weather or not has done this before isn't the issue. Sorry but, I agree it is an aggressive dog and should be put down. If your dog was trained properly in the first place it wouldn't have "ran next door "un-provoked" as you put it) and killed another animal.

Answer 5

You know she didn't mean to kill her? So you are aware that your dog did attacked another dog. And the dog was in poor health? Are you trying to justify your dog killing the other dog? That somehow because their dog was old and sick it deserved a terrible painful death? Imagine if that poodle was a human child!!!!!

First, why was your dog even able to go next door? Why was your dog not contained in a fenced area or allowed outside off a leash? How was your dog allowed to come into contact with another animal?

IMPO you are getting off easy. In some states owners are considered gardians to their pets and they can sue you for the vet bills, emotional suffering, and the value of their pet.

You want to see your dog live? Pay the fines and NEVER let your dog off your property ever again. Get a 10 foot fence, take it out on a leash, get an electric underground fence, whatever you need to do to make sure it never happens again!

You think you are the victim here, but consider what your neighbors are going through. Their dog was attacked - its spine crushed!! They never got to say good-bye, their dog was in horrific pain. And to have a neighbor like you completely selfish crying over the animal that did it, not sympathetic to the fact that your dog killed theirs.

I have poodles. One is blind and the other is in congestive heart failure. They are 12 and 14 years old. But they play and waddle around, and eat and love to go for car rides. If any dog or person so much as even attempted to hurt one of them I can't even say what I would do to them.

You are lucky that they are giving you a way to keep your dog alive, because if it were up to me, I would've taken the dog to be euthanized right then and there.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, that is how most dog laws work. Not knowing your dog, I would guess that she has a strong prey drive. Simply put, small and fuzzy = food! A strong prey drive does not mean the dog is dangerous to the people in the neighborhood. Though she is dangerous to their pets!

In order to keep this dog you need a kennel and liability insurance, especially since you lost control of your dog for a few moments when your dog killed the poodle.

This dog also needs obedience training! I would guess lots of it. I have had high prey drive Rottweilers and German Shepherds through out my life. All my dogs have been through obedience classes thought out their lives. None of my neighbors have had a reason to complain about my dogs.

Answer 7

You're right...it isn't the dogs fault, it's yours. When you are a dog owner you are responsible for making sure that dog does not injure another person or animal. Unfortunately the dog is now unsafe because you were irresponsible. You should just feel lucky it was another dog and not a person. How would you feel if someone else's dog had come onto your property and killed your dog? Sorry, I know this isn't what you want to hear but I don't have much sympathy for people who aren't responsible for their animals, because it's the animal that suffers. My neighbor won't keep his dog home after repeated conversations with us about how we don't want him on our property. So far he has done nothing, but you just never know when he might hurt one of us or our pets. I think it's pretty generous of them to offer you any other options at all. If it were me I would come up with the money to save her since it was MY FAULT anyway, and then I'd learn from my lesson and make sure to be a responsible owner from now on.

Answer 8

What do you mean it didn't mean to kill the other dog? What do you think your dogs intent was if not to kill the other dog?

you should consider yourself lucky that she only killed a dog and not a child. So you want to keep this obviously vicious dog around until a person gets hurt huh?


I see after looking at the other question you posted 5 months ago this isn't the first time your dog went after another animal. Even though the animal was a porcupine it does mean that your dog was obviously loose without supervision on more than one occasion. In my opinion you should be fined and your dog destroyed.

Answer 9

If you want he rback you have to play by their rules buy the kennell, get her registered as dangerous and pay the fines. Then make sure it dosent happen again. Other than that there is not much you can do. Sorry about your dog :(

Answer 10

Animals change just as people change in their attitude and discipline. Your dog is obviously aggressive and you need to take responsibility! The next time it could be someones child.

Answer 11

It is certainly not the dogs fault, dogs can and do kill other animals, it doesn't make her dangerous. But YOU shouldn't have allowed her to be running free! As a responsible dog owner it is your responsiblility to handle your dog so that it doesn't have opportunities to hurt others.