My 30 pound dog was attacked by three unleashed pit bulls

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180. We also have two cats, we don't let them outside at all (two

other reasons besides the pits--coyotes, and rodents that carry plague and tularemia). Our neighbors are actually nice people, it's their adult son who lives with them who owns the dogs. My husband has taken the dogs back over to their house several times now and told them that we are afraid of what will happen if their dogs meet our dogs. Their response was to build a dog pen/run, and they have been getting better about not letting the dogs loose--but they still sometimes get out and run around at large. We carry pepper spray now when we take walks. Edit to add: I know my husband would lean more toward the firearm solution, because he's pretty sick of seeing those dogs, but I don't want that sort of trouble unless they actually do some harm.