Dog fell off the roof

I'm glad your lab is ok! How did she manage to get on the roof? Tell me you do not have a hole in your roof too?

Nah, she went through our terrace, she managed to squeeze through the railings. :)

Yikes! Good thing she is ok. Someday soon I will get some pics up of that house next to me. You won't believe someone is living in it.

Yes the owner needs to repair,remodel,or demolish a house in that bad condition. That is my considered opinion anyway if anyone really cares.

He has no visible injuries, but as far as internal, who knows. I hope the dog is ok and will have no damage in the future from his fall, but it is almost a 2 story fall he took.

Well, the guy is always too broke to fix it. He does little repairs here and there, but nothing major. Unless you want to call a paint job major......... The house is in foreclosure, and I told him it would probably be a better idea to find a place that doesn't need so much work, because with the repairs it is just not worth keeping the house. He said he set his mind to fixing it, and that is what he is going to do. Mind you, when he moved in to that place 20 years ago, the roof was in bad shape from what the other neighbors tell me. He has a tarp for a wall, and it looks like rotten insulation is falling through the tarp from his floor or wall, onto my sidewalk. Our houses are very close together. Lucky me. I am really hoping he loses the house. Both of us would be better off if he were in a better place. I would love that property for a driveway, since it really does need to be condemned and demolished anyway. I can't imagine what the inside of that place looks like if the outside looks as bad and is in as bad shape. I have been able to see his house through the large hole before he put up the tarp, and the bathroom does not have any plaster, it is just bare wood.

Here's a photo of the worst side of the house from my backyard. You can't imagine the stench.

Sometimes injuries from a fall do not show up for months or even years, so the poor dog isn't out of the woods yet. He says the dog is fine, but I wonder. One of the holes has been there for years and gets bigger each year. After this bad winter, it did get much larger. The dog pushed through a portion of the roof that did not have a hole; he was able to make his own hole to crawl through. The wood is pretty rotten. There were 3 layers of shingles on the house, and now I can see the 3rd set pretty clear. What is left of them anyway. Cream, the guy has a blue tarp for a wall. His house is literally falling into my yard, piece by piece, every couple of days. There is some kind of debri, looks like it may be very old, rotted insulation that is on the walk between our houses that spilled out of his house. I can only guess that is what it is, it is brown and kind of fuzzy looking. Looks like it took on the color of the wood from the inside. Slowly the roof on my side (where the dog was able to push through) is falling. Little pieces of wood, sometimes big pieces of wood, find themselves onto the walk, and pieces of shingle are always in my front and back yards. His patch job on the roof will remain for many years, until another accident happens, whichever comes first. He didn't even patch it when the cats were going in and out of his house.

Here is a photo of the house. If you can enlarge the picture you would be able to see the condition of the roof.

The upstairs is on a slant, so the dog was able to scale up to the roof from the floor. I had seen one of them poke their head through the hole, but never expected one to be able to climb through. It seems he created a hole because the larger one that has been there for ages was the only one until the day the dog got out and slid from the roof into my yard.

My main concern would be if dogs can get up on roof could children? A house in that condition is a hazard.

My, that is scary! It sounds like they hit the dog on purpose? Is that what happened? Manly, the guy has full grown children so they would not have any inclination to crawl through a hole. Had he young children living there, the city could have more easily condemned the place and got him out and tear the house down.