I've tried really hard not to do this post, but can't avoid it..off topic but that is a terrible and quite offensive term...

Oh Evie hun, that's horrendous !
Know exactly what ya going through though. My neighbour 2 doors along lets her JRT roam around all the time, wouldn't mind so much but it attacks my two all the time, and them being dog aggressive i'm just waiting for something like that to happen! Mine are always on lead, but as your story proves that doesn't really mater, it's very annoying !

Hope you all ok, sending hugs

Thank you all.

Doggydina; I had a neighbour a few doors down here that got a wee jrt (unspayed) bitch and it was always out wandering. She was a darling wee thing and loved to meet my two out on their walks. I was always worried when she followed us that she might get run over or something, so myself and the kids were forever helpful in returning the dog to the door, where we'd be thanked and told "she must have escaped.... again."
In the end they got fed up with us returning her home constantly and made sure she didn't manage to "escape" again.

The police round here have nothing to do with dogs any more, so it's all done through the dog warden.
from what i was told hen i found a stray, to contain it either in a secure garden, shed or kennel.

Is it not possible for you to entice the dog in to your garden and phone the dog warden and tell them you have it contained and that it is an aggressive dog.
As you have dogs and children you would like them to collect the dog as soon as possible.

What a horrible experience for you all xx

An unspeyed bitch wonder will never cease !

Glad you made a difference by what you did, wish I could say the same, I have asked politely sooo many times, have told her what can happen to dog when unsupervised, and even had to loose my temper with her when for the 100th time she just stood there while it attacked my two and all hell broke loose?!?!? She's as thick as mince and there's no getting through. She even came up to my garden gate to see my dogs with her's oof lead just behind her ! Thnak god for gates ! ! ! And boy did she getting a dressing down, much to all the other neighbours amusement

x x

With a guide dog and my own two here it's not worth the risk, tbh.

Last stray I had here got along with my two (had followed us home from a walk & we had no GD staying) was a lively GSD. It had been knocking people over jumping up on them and had caught my wee girl on her bike by the ankle. I found it a real handful and told police of it's behaviour and that I worried it might bite a kid. They wanted me to turn it back out onto the street. I said no, I couldn't have it on my conscience if it did bite someone!

It took 24hrs and lots of pestering from me for someone to come collect it. Since then I refuse to bring strays into my home.


Doggydina;
These same owners want to have a litter from her, just because. Never mind the audible clicking coming from her hind limbs or the fact that she had a single pup with the last owner and killed it.... or any of the other reasons not to do this... Or the free spay voucher I gave them. It would be nice to have pups.

Thick as mince. Funny saying.
Shame the owners actions weren't quite so amusing, except for the onlooking neighbours.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its first use in print was in the Times in 1837, referring to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey island to harvest. Later that century it meant a "turnpike traveller" or vagabond.

I have gypsy, Irish and Welsh blood in me. My grandad was married to a gypsy (although she wasn't my biological grandmother), I lived for 27 years in a traveller community (including many families of travellers who live part of the year in houses and a very large travellers site where I used to walk my neighbours dog every day). I went to school with them, I socialised with them. I don't find the term offensive.

Usually we call these people hawkers where I live but that term isn't a widely used one so I used the word 'pikey' to refer to a person who owns a house and lives in it for 5 months of the year and lives in a caravan at the traveller's site for the rest of the year.

I wonder why you find the term offensive? I actually find the term 'chav' offensive because it is actually a Romany term meaning 'child'. However it was recently picked up by the media and is now used to refer to a certain type of person who likes to wear Burberry. The word 'chav' is bandied about on this forum all the time and I've never seen anyone complain about that.

I hope I have explained myself satisfactorily.

ETA: As a section mentor, perhaps it would have been more appropriate to use the feedback section, or to PM me regarding this issue?

Evie i compleatly understand why my suggestion wasn't good for you.
But i do wish you the best of luck with the situation.

Thanks Stafford.
Will let you all know how I get on tomorrow.