Originally Posted by RedFawnRising

I'm having a huge problem with a fifteen year old juvenile freak of a kid and my two Dobermans. Need help and advice.

Background: Currently I live in a townhouse community, as a renter.

I'm in the process of moving to my own place with eight acres, but since the house was built in 1875, there've been some, shall we say, adventurous and costly delays.

So, this neighbor kid is around sixteen, about 6 feet tall, mouth on him that would send a sailor crying in shame, and a history of violence and vandalism. He's "in the system" so to speak, with a few juvenile complaints, and is supposedly "receiving mental health treatment." He has a history of conflict with others in the neighborhood, including pulling a knife on another neighbor's son.

Sooo. He hates my dogs. As in, hates them and wants to harm them or me, or preferably both.

Without making it a novel, he has cussed me, threatened me, vandalized my car, brandished a gun at me (turned out to be a pellet gun, but scary at the time) and just generally tried to make my life hell here.

I've responded by calling the landlord, speaking with and lodging complaints with management, documenting incidents, date, time, etc, and involving the *State* police. I also give him no drama back--I literally do not say a word to him or his younger brother, whom he has recruited as fellow teeny bop terrorist.

That last about the STATE police is important, as the kid's uncle is a County Mountie, and the kid and his mom loudly proclaim he "can get by with anything" as Uncle will "fix" it for him.

Tonight, I broke an upstairs window slamming it open to stop him--caught him teasing the Dobermans through my open downstairs window. Kylie sounded like she'd kill him if she decided to go thru the screen...

I am at my wit's end. We're almost never home--I take the dogs with me when we go. I don't engage this psycho kid (his parents are hopeless, trust me on that), and we dart outside when they aren't home or outside, and go straight back in, can't even enjoy my own yard.

Now, we apparently can't even be safe in our own residence.

Police say until he follows thru on one of his threats, they "can't really do anything."

Please, this cannot be legal, can it? What else can I do?