What do you think the authorities would do about vicious doy! dogs in this situation?

I’ll try to keep this short.

My two dogs,a spaniel and a German Shepherd (same one in my av) and me were hanging out on our back deck. Rick was in the back yard watering. The deck itself is open directly to the side yard.

A couple of stray dogs, a hunting dog of some kind, and a large black lab, showed up at the foot of the deck stairs. These aren’t the first stray dogs over the years to find their way here. The Spaniel goes down to greet them—and the dogs attacked her viciously, without warning, without provocation. On the ground, by the throat, snarling. Dakota came to her rescue. The stray dogs started it, but they get their asses kicked by Dakota, who has never attacked or hurt anything or anyone in her, life. But damn if she didn’t turn into Cujo….. Rick finally made it out of the back yard and through the gate, and helped out Dakota, kicking like Bruce Lee…and he LOVES dogs. He’s never kicked a dog in his life.

About then the neighbor, a women, shows up screaming at her dogs to come to her. They go. It all happened in a few seconds. So fast.

Amazingly, there was no blood. We debated about whether to call the police, but in the interests of good-neighbor relations, decide not to. Perhaps it was all a misunderstanding. Somehow.

Neighbor comes over later to apologize. I told her that if I had dogs like that I’d get rid of them. She gives me bullshit about how good the dogs are with kids and stuff.

Anyway, that one was a gimme.

Three weeks later, same scenario. We’re all on the deck, the stray dogs show up. This time there is no surprise. They knew where we were and they were looking for trouble. They immediately go after Dakota. Both Dakota and my husband had another Come To Jesus Meeting with the dogs. However, at some point I was able to get both of our dogs in the house, whereupon they turned on my husband, charging, and my husband finished kicking their asses by himself. I was actually heading off the deck to help (very, very conscious of my bare feet and legs…) when the neighbor lady starts screaming at her dogs to “Get the F…. back over here!” Again, just a few seconds of screaming, five alarm WTF!!!!!

We called the cops this time. The neighbor’s husband or son or something, stood out on his front porch, glaring at us as we were talking to the officer. Later on he lied and told him that our dogs were running loose in our front yard.

If you were the law, what would you have done?