You poor thing. That is shocking. I agree that dangerous dogs have to be investigated, for their own well being as much as other peoples, but that is ridiculous.

They were obviously expecting you to be in bed asleep, how frightening it would to have been woken up to that. I wonder how many perfectly innocent people have been traumatised by similar cases, particularly someone who'd been burgled whilst in their house would have been absolutely terrified.

Why people can't make simple inital checks I have no idea. A few years back I had just got out of the shower, getting ready for work. There was a horrendous thumping on the door - my first thought was that someone had been involved in an accident outside the house. There was a plain clothed police officer at the door asking for some man. I told him there was no-one here of that name. He handed me a warrent for arrest, at which point I told him he had the wrong address. He told me that 'I can check with the post office'. 'What a good idea, you do that' I said .....

Here you go, stick this up on your gate

Good one!

Or this....?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PITBULL-AMERIC...item2eaa973de4

Hehe... those posters are brilliant!

I do wonder what the Police are doing with their time, all these talks of cuts and being overworked - and this sort of thing happens. Good on you for keeping your cool. I would have been so angry that I would probably end up being arrested for being mouthy to a police officer! What sad neighbours you have - do they not have better things to do with their lives?!!!

I hope your day is going better than it started

Or this one

Why on earth didn't they just send someone round to check the facts first before raiding you. Good grief and the RSPCA wouldn't even take any action against my landlady who abuses her dogs and I have proof, it's ridiculous.
I would complain to everyone, MP, Council, Police Commisioner, RSPCA and tell the papers as well.
Becky

What on earth is wrong with people...!!!

You're neighbours sound awful and the police and RSPCA turning up like that is unforgivable, they should NOT turn up at 5am, that is ridiculous. I would be writing a very strongly worded letter of complaint about this.

If that happened to me i wouldnt even answer the door. Im a bit of a wimp and dont tend to answer my door once it gets dark anyway I live on my own with 3 entirely useless guard dogs (they'd hide behind me!!!) so if people knock on the door, they rarely get an answer. But i wouldnt have let them in if they did anyway, they have no right to enter your property without a warrant I believe, and if they could see the dogs over the garden fence i'd have made them do that out of principle.

i love it

Or just to wind them up (can you tell I'm having fun with this one )

I wasn't going to complain but the more I think of it, the more p1ssed off about it I'm getting. I had seen the funny side once I'd calmed down but I wonder how many innocent people who are not ex-police officers, who aren't legally trained and who have young children who are awake or maybe elderly people in the home have endured this and not known what they can do about it. The tactics used to carry out the visit were way OTT but I know it would have frightened a lot of people.

I was already up - otherwise I'm a vile bitch at the best of times if I'm woken up.

Fortunately, the neighbours' hosue is still Council owned so there will also be a complaint going back to the Housing Department; as well as any other organisations I can think of to complain to. Don't worry - once I start I can end up with a whole list of unsuspecting people to whinge at.

Yes they do and I had far more service from them this morning than I've ever had in my entire lifetime. They both fobbed me off when Yiannis was attacked. Why not sort out the scum (same neighbours) who did that rather than hassle me?

Hmmm.....now there's a thought!

It's typical of both services though - they get very little information, don't even make the most basic of checks and then expect everyone else to sort out their mess.

I agree - the posters are fantastic. I wil definitely use one or more of them. Not sure in what context thoguh yet. Maybe, as my neighbours NEVER go out, EVER, I may stick one to their front door and see what happens. When someone reports them and they get the police smash the door in (cos they don't ansqwer the door to anyone, the police included) I wonder what they'll say/do.

My day is going much better than it was to begin with. Well let's face it - it couldn't have been much worse. The dogs and I have had a pretty good day in the park adn this afternoon (as with every Wednesdaya fternoon) Oscar plays football after school so I'm relaxing now until about 415pm when I have to leave to pick him up. usually I'd have to leave by 245pm to pick him up at normal time.
He's hoping to get a trophy today as it's the last sesion of the academic year so at least he'll have a fantastic day.

And the best part was that Oscar slept through the whole thing. He didn't even stir.

Laura xx