Thread: When neighborhood strays become a problem

Thank you for sharing, Ingrid. Pit bulls are wonderful dogs and get a bad reputation for no reason. Our neighbors across the street have two pit bulls that play with the kids and are the least aggressive dogs I've ever seen. Actually we are one of only three families on the street that don't own a dog (a fact pointed out by police after our second break in). The people next to us have a huge German boxer, the others directly across have a huge and vicious Chow, then the even more enormous Great Dane that lives next to the pit bulls. With all these big dogs around you'd think cats would steer clear but the feral/stray colony is quite large.
We have considered a protection dog for us humans LOL, and our cats have adjusted well to my mom's small dogs when they visit. Even Sampson doesn't bat an eye when the Boxer strolls by on his walk, barking and jumping. Besides the time commitment a dog requires I am wary of them, being bitten by one of my parents' English springer spaniels as a child. I've gotten better but I would really need to spend time working with large dogs to overcome my fear of them. :-/ My best friend has two Huskies that love to jump and wrestle, and they will "play bite" which is more like rubbing their mouth all over you LOL, but it still freaks me out.