Our nextdoor neighbor is an old lady 70+ that has fostered over 40 children over the last 45 years, with some of her own kids along the way. For the last 3 years, she has had 4 (recently 5) dogs living with her, some belonging to god knows who, some hers. 2 pits 2 chihuahuas and another little dog that we rarely see, some kinda mutt.
Xena is a larger brindle pit probably 7-8 years old. She had puppies about a year ago, they gave away all but 1. The kept pup is called Junior, full pit. Wife and myself had gotten used to putting Xena back in their backyard or knocking on her door to tell her the dogs were out. Generally the 4 older pups would just sniff around and stay near the yard. These dogs escape the yard/house multiple times a week. Typical trashy situation in an otherwise nice neighborhood. As soon as Junior got old enough to join the adventures, Xena's behavior changed drastically.
Recently when they'd escape, Xena would engage you head on barking with that tail/body wag that is aggressive. Hard to explain the movements but it's a noticeable change from normal happy pup to asshole pup. Once, she came into our yard just as we were getting home from some kid thing. 6 and 4 yrs old at the time, my kids were nearly in my garage and this dog charged at us barking. I stood my ground and told her no, she backed down. I only tell this to describe the escalation in behavior.
Couple months ago Xena charged the neighbor on her other side and dude filmed it. Same aggressive bark and wag. He posts the vid on Facebook and it gets some attention; an old lady was mauled to death by pits across our town a month or two prior. Police chief contacts dude on Facebook and they start texting and emailing about this dog situation. Chief says without saying, shoot the fuckin dog.
Neighbor dude uses the video as evidence and does some civil procedure to get the city to do a behavioral evaluation for a week on this dog, they send me a certified letter they are doing this. The city then sends me another certified letter about 10 days later that they deem the dog DANGEROUS. They literally put that one word in all caps in the letter, ha. She now has to buy some expensive dangerous animal insurance and prove she secured the location so Xena could not escape.
So she buys the insurance (so she tells us) and gets one of her foster kids to help fix up the fence and front door and all sorts of shit. OK, victory! The dog isn't allowed to be outside without a muzzle and never off a leash when not fenced in.
This is up to about a month ago. In the last month, Junior has escaped a bunch of times and chased multiple pedestrians, finally culminating in him biting a lady who pressed charges. Animal control nabbed Junior before he got back in the house, so our grand city decided quickly to end that dog's days, he ded.
Xena escaped about a week ago. Chased a 3 year old across his yard, the dad had to pick the kid up and toss him in a truck bed. 911 was called, but the way the law works here (TX) the police can't do shit unless someone is bleeding or an animal was attacked (fuckin farm laws make it so I can shoot the dog in my yard if it is attacking a pet or chicken or whatever, but if I shoot it when it is attacking my children or me, it is technically breaking the law.) So animal control comes out again after the dogs have already gone home, and neighbor won't answer the door for anyone. She knows what will happen if she does, Xena's toast.
Late Sunday, one of the animal control guys knocked on my door and wanted to get some pics of neighbors backyard. He tells me they're going for a search and seizure warrant on Xena "this week."
Yesterday, fully kitted out raid of sherriff's deputies and detectives lol! They took Xena away and stood talking with neighbor lady for about 20 mins. Apparently there has been so much shit happen at this woman's house involving city resources (lots of police visits) that it came across the human endangerment unit's desk and they'd had enough.
If these two dogs in this story were another breed, I don't believe for a second they would have been that aggressive, even with the same shitty humans involved.
