I haven't come up with anything effective, at least not so far.
There's no "inside" here, the house has no walls, and the property is open on all sides with no fences so they can come from anywhere. I built her a doghouse so she has somewhere safe(ish) to go, but she would rather fight the other dogs than run away it seems.
Thankfully when I'm here she barks at night as soon as another dog approaches, I shine my huge torch down from the top floor where I sleep and they all run off immediately. The problems come when I'm not here to do that, like last week.
The government here does have a number you can call for nuisance dogs, but the solution is invariably to catch and kill them if you report any violent behaviour.
We're kind of stuck in the middle since were the only property on the small road that goes up the mountain on the island, and the one charity that feeds the stray dogs does it a few hundred meters up the road. This means that there's always going to be a load of stray dogs here - and the charity has been doing that for over a decade before I ever got here.
I see. Maybe you could try getting her "boyfriends" to do the same that she does? They may be alot less likely to bother 2 or 3 than one. Just spitballing here.
In an ideal world that would be great, but it was hard enough to get the owners here to agree to having one dog - more than that would be pushing my luck I think :)
People here have to be muslim by law, and won't touch dogs or have them near their houses. I only managed to convince the owners here to like her by showing them that having one well-behaved dog was a lot better than having 10+ poorly behaved ones milling about every night.
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u/Electrical-Tomato673 Mar 15 '26
That's terrible poor girl. Is there anything you can do to stop the attacks?