All Forum Posts by: Collette F.

@Bettina F. if what you read on the internet says what it does, why has my dog been such a loved breed by all the petowners when we go to the dog park and they see how mello, kind, and non aggressive, non barking when he gets around all types of dog breeds.  How can he sit in a line with me for 3 hours at a outdoor dog clinic with hundreds of pitbulls running back and forth around him and not bark once or lunge at them?  

Don't worry John, I already have the lawyer tried to remove the dog, but becausse he is companion and is non-aggressive and the fence damage happened because my neighbors fence needed repair and is broken, they have backed off.  You also are not hearing my question.  I have no problem for paying for the 2 damaged pickets.....  but when I ask the owner how much she paid, she gives me the amount of the entire fence that was put up.  My dog did not break her entire fence, so why are you telling me to pay for an entire fence?

Thanks for the advice which will be considered.  However, there seems to be advice that unfortunately is another problem I am facing, people have made their judgements on him that are not even true or anything like him.  For instance, the attack and death of a woman in san francisco... was not a Cane Corso, but instead the Presa Canario and yes, they are dangerous especially if they are trained to be guard dogs.  My dog has not been trained to guard anything, but he is just a "dog" like you say.  If you can spend just a moment in time around him, you would see that the extreme measures of chaining him up or locking him in a box will probably turn him into exactly what you are worried about.   The only thing this dog does is stay by my side, waits to go cruising in the car and find a group of men at the park playing basketball.  Recent example, taking him for a walk through the highschool across street from our home.  The first time I ever took him through this school yard and I thought it would be empty so nobody would be scared and think he is a pitbull or presa.  We run into 4 boys just leaving from playing basketball.  What would a typical "dog" do when approached by 4 boys and strangers to us???  Maybe smell them, guard me.....  or typically most dogs would bark. (click this video: JoJa meeting strangers)  I'm glad to know that my dog will guard any basketball or soccerball anytime, anywhere, anyhow.  My dog has no teeth, our vet thinks that someone locked him up or chained him up and he chewed to escape.  He is petrified to be alone, maybe he was kept isolated before.  I agree with all of you, with most of the dogs I see everywhere, I would not hesitate to throw them into a kennel or chain them up and walk away.  But there's something different about this dog, his mannerism, his gentleness, his NON aggressiveness, that makes him truly just a big lover dog.  Nothing more, nothing less.  And very afraid because of what someone else before me has done to him.  

My question really was:   Do I pay the owner for the 2 pickets he broke, or do I pay for her entire fence she just put in?  She has submitted the bill that was dated before my dog broke 2 boards on her fence.  I was just trying to find that legal or neighborly advice.  

I am half way thru a Purchase Agreement for my manufactured home.   2 years ago, I received a companion dog prescribed by my doctor and submitted this to park management/owners.  He is larger than the normal pet allowed.  His breed is Cane Corso mix but many residents argue that he is a pitbull.  My dog is very mello, calm and normally sleeps all day if I'm at work.  When my son moved out and my companion dog is home alone now, he has managed to get out of our house in various different ways looking for me or anybody, but he is afraid to be in the house all alone.  

There was 1 incident that my dog has figured out that the flimsy fence between my neighbor and I are more like a curtain that he can go into his yard.  The neighbor didn't mind as long as I clean up any mess he left.  Then 1 day, my dog  went thru the fence curtain and to the other side of the neighbors fence that he shares with another neighbor.  My dog for some strange reason, rammed his head through the new pieces of picket fence that his neighbor just installed.  

Of course now my dog has made himself look like he's aggressive and destructive.  I left messages to this owner that I will pay for any damages my dog has done or offered to repair it myself.  They never returned my call.  I tried again another month and a half later, and this time they told me that to replace 2 wooden fence pickets, she paid $100.  Of course there is no receipt or anything in detail from her repairman.  She sent me a copy of a check she made out to some man named Dave.  

When I look at her fence again, she now has a large border of 2x12 board running across the bottom about 4 or 5 feet.  

As a future home owner and pet owner, am I responsible to pay for additional items she added to her fence that were not there nor broken before by my dog?  Or do I just pay for the 2 fence pickets and labor to replace those 2 items?  

Am I allowed to ask for more detailed receipt, or am I allowed to request it directly from her repairman?  

Regarding my dog, I did everything I could do to try and prevent this from happening again, repaired my side of fence, repaired the neighbors side of his fence and haven't received money from him and his fence was never broken, but instead they are hanging by a thread due to water rot on all the boards.  And the cost of materials to replace on my and my neighbors fence so far has only run me up to about $65 and that's for more than 20 pieces of woods. 

I additionally have got my dog 2 behavioral lessons for abandonment distress, and still working with someone at SPCA to help for long term.  I've enrolled him in doggie daycare for times I cannot take him with me.  I've signed up to receive foster dogs to help find him a companion.  I quit my job and stay with him 24 hours a day.  I had to go to extremes, because this incident and a few other times he has gotten out because my roommate accidentally doesn't close the garage door when she leaves for work, or sometimes she doesnt close the front door hard enough to actually close securely.  He's is treated as if he is a wild dangerous predator roaming through the park.  

One night, I also witnessed a possom running along our fences, and saw for the first time my dog run to chase it away.  He normally is not a predator and knows to mind his own business.  But he did not like that possom.  I also noticed on some of the new fence pickets I just replaced, that some animal has been chewing through brand new wood.  I know for sure that it is not my dog because he has been by my side everyday and night, and....  he does not have teeth.  

We live in Sacramento California.  He is a true companion dog verified by licensed medical doctors.  I am feeling as though I'm constantly defending my dog, receiving lawyer letters regardng eviction because of my dog.