Stray dogs here giving me a very difficult time.

Hi,

I really feel for you, as this is a very frightening position to be in, and even more so while you are pregnant. From reading your post, it would seem that these dogs are picking up on your fear, as dogs are very intuitive on this. However, this is not something that you are going to be able to easily disguise given your past experience of a dog attack, which must have been terrifying.

Have you approached the mayor in your town / village? As they do not want stray dogs around. I would take a walking stick out with me, not to jostle at them, but to use in an absolute emergency. I have
also attached a link for an ultra sonic device that can be purchased from Amazon, when pointed towards dogs it emits a high-pitched ultra sonic sound which immediately curbs the barking and the dogs try to get away from the sound ( human beings do not hear the sound ) it works from 5-15 meters. My brother in law purchased one, and I have it on good authority that it works, and does not harm the animals in any way. I hope that this is able to help your plight.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000IBRI2Y/ … 2BbH09TBH3

Thanks.  I will try your suggestion.

Hey there,

It looks like you have a minor problem, so do not worry about it at all.

There's no use of addressing the authorities. What they will do is to catch the dogs, castrate them and bring them back to the place the dogs were captured from. They are abliged to do so.

Some possible solutions are the following:


1. If you want to achieve sth via the authorities dealing with thestray dogs, then contact the persons sent to catch the dogs and negotiate that they will release the dogs to a distant neighbourhood.

2. Buy yourself a dogchaser - ultrasonic device that emiths unplesant sound waves to the dogs. But not all of these actually work for every dog.

3. Find a local teenager - 18 - 19 yrs. old, best if he is your neighbour, explain the situation and ask him to make the dogs leave the neighbourhood permanently... I suppose 100 BGN will be enough. 50 BGN before the job is done and 50 BGN after accomplishment. You can even 2-3 boys sitting together in a cafe.

4. Call to the local municipality or even write a letter, explaining how the dogs have attacked you /pregnant/ and threatening that you will take the entire local municipality to court if the problem is not solved within 3 days.

The choice is yours .... but I would use No. 3 in your case, or No. 1 .

free2go wrote:

Unfortunately they smell the fear and as dogs are hierarchy drivven animals you are the underdog dog or even a pray. If you are pregnant they can smell that too, the progesterone smell is similar to the one dogs excrete from their anal glands. So they really feel the urge to smell you. If you are not afraid an let them smell you they usually leave you alone after.

But if you are afraid start in finding things that make you feel safer.  First, change just before leaving home with fresh clothing,  scent yourself with dog repelling smells like lemongrass. You can do the same regularly around your home too. Wear the same overcoat, jacket with bright color when you go around.

I do not fear dogs and they usually stay away from me apart the ritual smelling.  But there are quite a lot of problems with stray dogs packs.
I've been surrounded by a pack of 15 hunting dogs. If I've showed even an hint of fear they would had no problem in taking advantage on me.
I do walk in the country side with a trekking walking stick. Dogs who have been beaten before will down their heads and move away from you. Now whatever they are in front or back to you point the walking stick with the exposed metal tip towards them (remove the plastic foot they sometimes have). Dogs have natural fear of being enpaled so they stay away from pointed objects.

You can find pepper spray in a fishing/hunting store usually.  If you find a veterinary they may have repellent sprays.

Because I've seen many many times this phobia towards dogs to be the real propeller of all these situations, please consider to read some book or watching some video on how exist this mindset. To relax and be in control.
But first empower yourself as I suggested above so you will feel safer.

This is exactly why I hate dogs.  When people tell me that 'dogs smell fear' it just makes me even more afraid.  I can't help feeling intimidated.

I called municipality and they said until the dogs bite me they are not legally obligated to do anything.  Is this true?  I had a very rude lady on the phone telling me in not so many words not to be so silly and completely dismissing everything and unimportant.  She seemed to have more sympathy for these mutts than me.

You mentioned hair spray.... if it is in an aerosol can you can try this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_8xclOZfts

Spray it and light it on fire, it will shoot a good flame out and scare the dogs. You don't have to burn them with it, just scare them! lol. If you do this a couple times they will learn to stay away from you. If you are too worried about using a small lighter to light it then use a barbecue lighter with a long handle. I am sure this will take care of your problem. Dogs are instinctively scared of fire.