Neighbors aggressive dog

[banagan]

Just moved into a house in a small neighborhood of detached houses. Few dogs roaming around, not Soi dogs, they have collars. They're ok except one, which is pretty aggressive when you drive by his house... he's a lot more amped up at night, had to gun it earlier to loose him, was on my scooter.

 

What's the best way to deal with this, I don't want a pissed off dog chasing after me every time I leave the house. 

Thinking maybe I should head over to the neighbors and pet the dog, let him know I'm a friendly... or, will he just get used to used to me? 

 

[Fish Head Soup]

Ride slower, if the dog takes after you just come to a stop, and switch the engine off. Beckon the dog over to you, give it a few snacks, it will soon be you're friend. Main thing is that it gets used to your bike, it will soon leave you alone but the worst thing to do is accelerate away if it goes to chase you. You will find the dog is all bark and no bite if you stop.

[banagan]

3 minutes ago, Fish Head Soup said:

Ride slower, if the dog takes after you just come to a stop, and switch the engine off. Beckon the dog over to you, give it a few snacks, it will soon be you're friend. Main thing is that it gets used to your bike, it will soon leave you alone but the worst thing to do is accelerate away if it goes to chase you. You will find the dog is all bark and no bite if you stop.

Hope you're right 

[Fish Head Soup]

1 minute ago, banagan said:

Hope you're right 

I had the same problem as you a few years ago when we moved in to a new house, it certainly works. You will get a load of trolls replying soon suggesting everything from shooting it to spraying it with bleach. It's up to you which route you go, but having dogs in the street who are noisy and alert to strangers is actually a good thing in my book.

[meatboy]

we have 3 living close by,never loose,always behind the gate's but they will bark their nuts off at you,that is till you show them the SLING.now no barking just a stare

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[cornishcarlos]

8 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

Ride slower, if the dog takes after you just come to a stop, and switch the engine off. Beckon the dog over to you, give it a few snacks, it will soon be you're friend. Main thing is that it gets used to your bike, it will soon leave you alone but the worst thing to do is accelerate away if it goes to chase you. You will find the dog is all bark and no bite if you stop.

 

Fully agree... Buy 20 baht of dog biscuit and keep them in your scooter basket. 

Stop and make friends :)

[robblok]

Yea had a dog here too that loved to go after me many years ago (died in the meanwhile of old age). I just stood my ground and took some snacks normally reserved for my dog. Did not take long or the dog was won over. 

 

Its either that or violence, kinda depends what kind of person you are. I always choose violence as a last resort that i rather not choose with anything. 

[MartinL]

8 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

Ride slower, if the dog takes after you just come to a stop, and switch the engine off. Beckon the dog over to you, give it a few snacks, it will soon be you're friend. Main thing is that it gets used to your bike, it will soon leave you alone but the worst thing to do is accelerate away if it goes to chase you. You will find the dog is all bark and no bite if you stop.

We live in a small single-track, dead end soi in town. It's quiet and used only by the ten or so families who live in the soi or their visitors. People, young and old, walk up and down, kids play in the road, dogs wander about.

 

The vast majority of traffic travels very slowly and our 4 dogs very rarely react from behind the gate. However, there's one frequent visitor who insists on gunning his bike up the soi at high speed and the dogs have learnt to recognise the sound of his bike. Whenever they hear it, they go nuts. The bloke has been asked to drive more slowly because of the playing kids but the requests have been ignored. 

 

Three of our dogs are very placid, one can be a bit unpredictable but they all seem to dislike this bloke on his bike above all others. Maybe he scared them sometime in the past when they were outside and that stays in their minds, who knows.

 

I'm sure they'd make friends with the person , given the chance, but still hate the sound of the bike and react to it.

 

 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, MartinL said:

We live in a small single-track, dead end soi in town. It's quiet and used only by the ten or so families who live in the soi or their visitors. People, young and old, walk up and down, kids play in the road, dogs wander about.

 

The vast majority of traffic travels very slowly and our 4 dogs very rarely react from behind the gate. However, there's one frequent visitor who insists on gunning his bike up the soi at high speed and the dogs have learnt to recognise the sound of his bike. Whenever they hear it, they go nuts. The bloke has been asked to drive more slowly because of the playing kids but the requests have been ignored. 

 

Three of our dogs are very placid, one can be a bit unpredictable but they all seem to dislike this bloke on his bike above all others. Maybe he scared them sometime in the past when they were outside and that stays in their minds, who knows.

 

I'm sure they'd make friends with the person , given the chance, but still hate the sound of the bike and react to it.

 

 

 

 

Pay a couple of Thai guys to sort him out and then keep their mouths shut, and you keep yours shut also.

[meechai]

Toss him a meatball full of sleeping pills

 

Then go back when he is passed out & spray paint his nuts fluorescent Pink

He will be so embarrassed he will never want to run out on the road to chase anything again

[banagan]

3 hours ago, robblok said:

Yea had a dog here too that loved to go after me many years ago (died in the meanwhile of old age). I just stood my ground and took some snacks normally reserved for my dog. Did not take long or the dog was won over. 

 

Its either that or violence, kinda depends what kind of person you are. I always choose violence as a last resort that i rather not choose with anything. 

Would much rather be friends of course and will try my best. If the dog is just an aggressive <deleted> I can try asking the owner to keep him in at night. 

[jak2002003]

2 minutes ago, banagan said:

Would much rather be friends of course and will try my best. If the dog is just an aggressive <deleted> I can try asking the owner to keep him in at night. 

I am sure the dog will get used to you in about a week if you pass by it every day on the same scooter at similar times.

 

They react to anything new.

 

If no improvement after a week you might try having a few bits of meat or dry dog food and when you go past slow down and throw them on the floor, making some friendly noises to the dog as you do so.   A few times of that the dog will associate you with food and not be aggressive.  But then you might have the new problem of the dog chasing you about for food... but at least you won't worry it will be chasing you to bite you.

 

I advise against saying anything at all to the dog owners.  Seems whenever I have approached a neighbour about even the smallest problem and in the most polite and subtle way they react negatively.. then there is bad feeling into the future.  This will be not good if you are new to the street also and won't help you fit into the community.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ThaiWai]

Bacon. Next? 

[tweedledee2]

There was once a dog that always laid in ambush to chase my car down the street my girlfriend live on when I was picking her up. So one day, I unlatched the drivers door and when he was running alongside, I threw the door open hitting him and knocking him into the ditch. The next time I drove by he just watched me pass. Never chased my car again.

[darksidedog]

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[ataloss]

42 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Seems whenever I have approached a neighbour about even the smallest problem and in the most polite and subtle way they react negatively.. then there is bad feeling into the future.  This will be not good if you are new to the street also and won't help you fit into the community.

I've heard this from several friends. Best to keep to yourself it seems

[banagan]

Just now, ataloss said:

I've heard this from several friends. Best to keep to yourself it seems

Probably right, must be a face thing. 

[serialK]

2 minutes ago, banagan said:

Probably right, must be a face thing. 

 

it's a foreigner interfering, no matter how gentle he approaches it

[Rhys]

..feed the dog with treats with permission of the owner..

 

[milys]

2 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Pay a couple of Thai guys to sort him out and then keep their mouths shut, and you keep yours shut also.

Good luck in finding thais who can keep their mouths shut.

[catman20]

12 hours ago, banagan said:

Hope you're right 

and if not ? 

[Max66]

Always makes me laugh when the advice is " buy it snacks/food , make friends with the dog " . Pathetic . Hey go but it filet mignon..5555. This miserable mongrel is aggressively chasing you more than likely  will bite if given the chance and YOU are told to play nice and placate!?. The ones that give that advice are the same ones who gave the school bully their lunch money everyday . Don't talk to the owner . Useless. Avoid that  road route altogether. If that's not possible then go the bleach route.

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[NoshowJones]

13 minutes ago, milys said:

Good luck in finding thais who can keep their mouths shut.

Some folk will do anything for money.

[ToddinChonburi]

How about one of those strings of fire crackers.

[wonder6281]

What advice about 12 miniature dogs that bark at all hours in a small house block?

[chrisinth]

13 hours ago, banagan said:

Thinking maybe I should head over to the neighbors and pet the dog, let him know I'm a friendly...

OP, I think that would likely be a painful mistake. Sounds like the dog is territorial already. The closer you come to it's home, the more apt it will be to bite any hand that is offered to it as it could deem this as a threat.

 

Certainly don't try to put your hands through a gate or fence towards the animal, even (or especially) if the owner is there.

[Thingamabob]

Make friends with him. Not dufficult. Don't listen to the animal haters.

[stevenl]

40 minutes ago, Max66 said:

Always makes me laugh when the advice is " buy it snacks/food , make friends with the dog " . Pathetic . Hey go but it filet mignon..5555. This miserable mongrel is aggressively chasing you more than likely  will bite if given the chance and YOU are told to play nice and placate!?. The ones that give that advice are the same ones who gave the school bully their lunch money everyday . Don't talk to the owner . Useless. Avoid that  road route altogether. If that's not possible then go the bleach route.

Pathetic response.

 

All the OP has to do is stop, and show the dog who is boss. Treats are not necessary, but neither  is bleach or something similar.

[jacko45k]

13 hours ago, Fish Head Soup said:

I had the same problem as you a few years ago when we moved in to a new house, it certainly works. You will get a load of trolls replying soon suggesting everything from shooting it to spraying it with bleach. It's up to you which route you go, but having dogs in the street who are noisy and alert to strangers is actually a good thing in my book.

I think it is a pain.....I would hate to live in such a street. A neighbour who was a policeman shot a dog dead that kept chasing him on his bike.... good for him.

[johng]

1 minute ago, stevenl said:

show the dog who is boss

What if its a Doberman,Alsatian,Pitbull or rabid BanKeaw fighting breeds out for blood ?