Oak Lawn IL Real Estate News

Last year I wrote about dogs off the leash in Oak Lawn. The good news about that story is that the pit bull that lived next door to us in an unfenced yard moved elsewhere and we haven’t had any further problems. But something happened today that made us call 911.

Our little Japanese Chin dog, Bubba, had been outside in our fenced yard. We have a five foot chain link fence behind a 6 foot privacy fence. However, with the last bad storm that had heavy winds, a huge section of the privacy fence got blown down and was ruined. So we have an opening of the wood privacy fence but the 5 ft. chain link fence is intact.

Thank goodness we were in the kitchen and could hear Bubba screaming. It was no longer barking, it was shrill shrieking. My husband let him in and said there was a dog in our neighbor’s yard. Our neighbor does not have her yard fully fenced, only the fences on either side that belong to us and her other neighbor with the alley in back.

Our little Bubba doesn’t like other dogs (besides our Pekingese Gizmo) so we thought he was just irritated that this strange dog was running loose. However, when we brought him in he acted like he was hurt and was dragging his rear. We couldn’t figure out how he would have gotten hurt unless he hurt his back from maybe jumping up on the fence. We couldn’t figure how one of the dogs could have actually bit him through the fence.

Then my husband saw another dog and as we were looking out the window we saw it crawl up the fence like a monkey and jump into our yard! My husband knew Gizmo was outside by himself and rushed out as this dog was a pit bull. However, the dog did not attack Gizmo and they were just looking at each other.

I called 911 and told them what happened and were trying to look Bubba over because we think he did get bit. We couldn’t find anything and he started walking normally.

When the animal control unit finally made it to our house they explained they had already picked up the dogs and knew them as this wasn’t the first time these dogs got out. I told him I was worried because my 5 year old granddaughter lives with us and plays in the yard. He assured us that the dogs are friendly and have never attacked anyone or another animal before.

In fact, as my husband and I talked about it, we figured this pit bull heard Bubba barking and climbed the fence to check him out. Bubba was protecting his territory and even though he’s tiny he went after the pit bull (we didn’t see it happen so this is just a theory). The pit bull bit Bubba, maybe as Bubba backed away since it seemed his rear was hurting him.

Either way, these dogs should not have been running loose and it’s their luck they jumped in a yard with little dogs and not some huge rottweiler or other pit bulls. Animal control told us they were going to cite the owners and once again explain to them that they need to keep the dogs in their yard and offered them some solutions.

The funny thing is that in my other story a similar thing happened to my daughter with a different pit bull. She wasn’t fearful and tried walking the dog home, even though she didn’t know where home was. She saw the dog climb over his fence about a block away and she couldn’t believe it could do that. We figured this must be the same dog but the animal control officer told us it wasn’t. I never heard of pit bulls climbing fences but now we’ve met two that do right here in Oak Lawn. This means that if a pit bull is chasing you and you jump over a fence you can’t necessarily feel safe.

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