Missouri.
I have a AKC female dog who is 3 years old. We live in the country on 2 acres. My dogs are good listeners and we never leave them out alone. They are active breeds that need a lot of time running to burn their energy. We don't have dog parks in our area.
I took my dogs out to use the restroom. My neighbor a few houses down has a intact male that she doesn't pay attention to. She doesn't know when he comes or goes. I even have messages of where she says... I don't know where he is... I saw him in the garage this morning but I don't know where he is now. Her dog is constantly coming onto the property. Digging into trash and other stuff. Coming onto the porch to scratch at our door. We try to chase him off but he still stays. We've considered breeding my 3 year old so we never had her spayed. He came onto the property while my dogs were outside and ran up to my 3 year old. He darted into the woods to encourage her to chase him. I yelled for her, but she was already eager to play. She disappeared before I could even reach her. She was in heat. She's a very shy dog so I was hoping she didn't do anything. I contacted the owner of the male and she wasn't able to help me look for the dogs. My 3 year old didn't make it home until 13 hours later. The neighbor didn't bother to help look for her like she said. She didn't even check to see of she made it home. I explained to her that we were considering to breed our girl but now it was possibly ruined because she didn't keep track of her dog. She ignored what I had to say. Now I'm pretty sure my female is pregnant, so she'll have mixed puppies. My only option to terminate the pregnancy was to spay her early on and we were not wanting to do that. Do I have a case here for vet bills...puppy care? Anything? We don't have animal control, I looked that up already. Since then the dog keeps coming onto the property and scratching at our door. He won't leave.
I have a AKC female dog who is 3 years old. We live in the country on 2 acres. My dogs are good listeners and we never leave them out alone. They are active breeds that need a lot of time running to burn their energy. We don't have dog parks in our area.
I took my dogs out to use the restroom. My neighbor a few houses down has a intact male that she doesn't pay attention to. She doesn't know when he comes or goes. I even have messages of where she says... I don't know where he is... I saw him in the garage this morning but I don't know where he is now. Her dog is constantly coming onto the property. Digging into trash and other stuff. Coming onto the porch to scratch at our door. We try to chase him off but he still stays. We've considered breeding my 3 year old so we never had her spayed. He came onto the property while my dogs were outside and ran up to my 3 year old. He darted into the woods to encourage her to chase him. I yelled for her, but she was already eager to play. She disappeared before I could even reach her. She was in heat. She's a very shy dog so I was hoping she didn't do anything. I contacted the owner of the male and she wasn't able to help me look for the dogs. My 3 year old didn't make it home until 13 hours later. The neighbor didn't bother to help look for her like she said. She didn't even check to see of she made it home. I explained to her that we were considering to breed our girl but now it was possibly ruined because she didn't keep track of her dog. She ignored what I had to say. Now I'm pretty sure my female is pregnant, so she'll have mixed puppies. My only option to terminate the pregnancy was to spay her early on and we were not wanting to do that. Do I have a case here for vet bills...puppy care? Anything? We don't have animal control, I looked that up already. Since then the dog keeps coming onto the property and scratching at our door. He won't leave.
