Advice for how to handle neighbor's free roaming dogs?
I'm in Hamilton County, just outside of Chatt proper, so everything is done through HES and their animal control.
My neighbors let their dogs wander the neighborhood. They've been hit by cars multiple times. They chase people who walk up and down the street and tbh I'm surprised they haven't been beaten or shot. I work from home, so when they're in the road, I know, because people lay on their horns all afternoon. I keep finding dog poop in my front yard. Someone dumped or stopped feeding some feral cats recently so I've been TNRing them through HES (shout out to that department), but of course, that only attracts the dogs even more. Dogs belong to the property to our right, and cats get fed on the upper lefthand corner of our lot, but that doesn't stop the dogs coming through the unfenced portion of our yard and up the driveway. Please note this was already a problem for like a year before the cats showed up. But now I'm worried about them, too.
I was in contact with an animal control officer for months who encouraged me to send photos and videos. I did. A lot. But then communication dried up. The dogs are still loose. The owners never seem to be home, or it's always different people, and even when the owners are contacted (one of the dogs ate rat poison from another neighbor's trash and we were trying to save her), they really don't care much.
Suggestions? Helpful advice? Anyone in the area have any luck with a similar issue? We rent and it also doesn't make sense for the burden to be on us to install a fence to keep THEIR dogs away. I just want them contained on their property or for them to go to owners who actually care about them.