There was a news story last night about a little boy that was playing outside and his ball landed into the neighbors yard. The neighbor wasnt home and he had dogs ( pitbulls to be specific) The child wanted his ball back right away so he went into the neighbors yard and into the area where the dogs were, and was attacked. He was hurt but will survive.
I have dogs that are in the backyard during the day, one is a pitbull mix. On several occasions i have caught my neighbors young kids in my yard, once trying to figure out how to unlock the gate to the dogs area. I have talked to my neighbor repeatedly about this but i dont think he understands ( or cares) that his kids could be hurt in my yard. My pit mix is a loving dog but does not care for strangers. He has never bitten or acted aggressive, but i do realize that could change at anytime. My little dog ( a Chihuahua jack russel mix) hates kids & strangers and will defiantly bite. As a kid we were taught that if you lost something in a neighbors yard you had to ask them for it back. Does anyone still teach their kids this? What have you taught your kids about entering a neighbors yard without permission/knowledge of the neighbor?
No, I wouldn't allow my kids to trespass onto someone's property, dogs or no dogs. My kids never even consider it a possibility.
No, I don't let me my kids go into the neighbor's yard without permission, but on the same note I wouldn't leave a dog or dogs who are prone to biting outside unattended either. You might be in the "right" but I can't imagine worrying about being responsible for a child who was hurt because I have aggressive dogs.
My kids routinely kick their soccer ball over the fence into the neighbors yards, we have a small lot and they can kick hard, lol. They would never dream of going over the fence to get the ball themselves. We ask the neighbor to get it and if they aren't home we wait, it's that simple.
Print out a waiver stating that they won't hold you responsible if your dog attacks their kid in your yard and ask them to sign it - probably not admissable in court but it might shock them enough to keep their kids out of your yard.
They are not allowed in others yards. If they are caught, there will be a punishment.
Our neighbors all have dogs. Some have fences, some don't- either way all of the kids in the neighborhood are pretty respectful regarding the 'dont go into someone's yard when they are not home' concept. So, yes, people do still teach that concept and no those kids shouldn't be inside a gated area without your permission.
Post a large "Beware of Dog" sign at all entrances to your backyard and install a latch for the gate that is very high up on the fence so that they cannot reach it without real effort or an adult.
That sucks. Ya, it is your property but first off, kids will be kids, and they can't read yet. all they know is that they're playing a game and the game is over if the ball goes over the fence. We have one neighbor that leaves us a bag of balls on our porch a couple of times a year and another that we never see the balls again if we don't retreive them ourselves (and tht neighbor doesn't like us in their yard). My kids are older though. I would say, a good latch, if you can put a netting over the dog area so the balls/toys don't land on your yard, they would stay unretreivable until a grown up gets them for the kids, maybe make a nice poster with your phone # big on it for the kids to call you when the need a toy retrieved....
if your dog seriously injures anyone they(lawyers/police) may make you put it down. You don't want to risk that either. If you do catch them(kids) in your yard you can call the police, that might scare them into not doing it again too but you do have to live next to them for x # of years so it is best to be nice and work it out with the parents & the kids.
My kids know that they are not allowed in other peoples yards, and to stay away from other peoples dogs, but kids will be kids, especially if they lose a toy. If I had dangerous dogs in my yard (all my dogs would do is lick them and maybe pee on them out of excitement, lol) I would not only have a pad lock on my fence, but a layer of chicken wire curled up around the edge to deter climbing should other toys accidentally end up in your yard.
first off put a big sign in your yard, no trespassing-posted.
then right under that put another sign, beware of dogs
if you see the neighbors kids in your yard, dont call the police, call social services and tell them that there are unsupervised children in your yard and the parents are nowhere to be seen and you have pitbulls,or whatever, social services will be only too happen to come and pick up the kids, and then the neighbors will have to explain to social services why they have allowed their kids in your yard when there are several signs clearly posted warning theses kids of the potential danger.have you considered putting up
an electric fence, to keep the neighbors kids out ? or perhaps putting barbed wire on the fence ?
K. h
its your yard, you can do anything you want to discourage them, they shouldnt be coming on your property to begin with, and they certainly shouldnt be trying to get into the dogs kennel either
No way would I go into a neighbors yard without asking unless we are great friends and I see them outside but not if they have dogs that could attack or get out. I'd put a lock on the gate to stop it from happening and hope the kid doesn't climb over the fence. Put up signs "Beware of DOGS" and let them know you have dogs that might not be friendly. I have told my grand daughter that it isn't our yard and she isn't to go into it unless the family is home and has invited her right then. She can see the neighbor kids in their yard thru the fence and even if the kids ask her to come play, we go to the door first to ask the mommy.
I have always told my kids that if their toys go into the neighbors yard, they need to go knock on the door and ask for it back. My neighbors do the same to me. It is common courtesy. I told them if the neighbor isn't home, they have to wait till the neighbor is home and to play with something else for a while. Anyhow, it is the parents responsibility to teach their children not to trespass on other people's property. The dogs were secured in their own yard and the child was hurt because he went into the yard without permission. Where were the child's parents, they should be watching the child and making sure he didn't do something like this.
D. P.
How awful! We teach the same as you. Unless our neighbors are going to be gone for weeks, we leave their backyard to them. We don't consider it public and wouldn't think we had the right to go back there. We view it similar to their house. We aren't going to walk in uninvited, and we aren't going to go into their backyard without permission either. ESPECIALLY if there are dogs, our children know that under no circumstances is it okay to go in the neighbors backyard. They like dogs, but we've taught them that dogs try to protect and sometimes they will hurt people if they go places where the dogs don't think they should be. Our kids obey and don't try to go into other people's backyards. That's so sad about that little boy. Glad he'll be okay. I couldn't imagine if that was my boy (or dogs!).
We have a Boxer who is my sweet baby. She ia fantastic loving girl, but she is very weary of strangers. We had a couple of neighborhood kids who would come into our yard and tease her. It would drive her nuts and I was afraid that she would end up biting them (and then we would be in trouble). I know that your neighbor kids may not be intentionally teasing, but your dogs don't really know the difference.
We were told to call the cops when you catch them in your yard...not to get the kids in trouble (although it may scare them), but to have the situation documented. That way if either dog were to ever bite someone, it was well documented that you tried to stop the children's behavior. It may seem extreme, but if you have already talked to the children's parents and they don't seem to get it...what else can you do?
