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So did my wife, but then she firmly believes in that principle! The odd thing is that, in the several years during which they have kept chickens on the other land, this is the first time that they have suffered losses. Coincidence or swift Karma?

The neighbours who thought it amusing that I was hacked off when their dog killed a chicken on our land and subsequently lost the animal when it tried again have had a dose of 'serve you right'. They keep chickens on land about a mile away and leave them unattended. Last night, many were stolen!

Thank you for those words. Our choice was to either continue to have our animals at risk on our own property or to protect them. The dogs that died did so because they took poison on the boundary where they broke in again. The owners knew that we have lost more chickens and we said that we...

We can have a gun and use it on our own land. We, or strictly speaking my wife, can shoot human intruders as well as rampaging dogs. A carry licence isn't easy to get. I'm not supposed to shoot except to defend my wife at home or on a practice range. However, I'm taking the view that the...

We went to a gun shop and explained the enforced delay with the licence application. There is no alternative but to wait and, the bad news, my wife also needs a licence for an air gun. However, incredibly, she can legally buy a second hand gun before applying for a licence! Strange logic. She is...

Shoot, shower and shave? Guns require the shooter to be on hand at the right time. I'm darned if I'm going to sit around before the crack of dawn every morning. Also, I will have to be careful walking around the land with a 'real' firearm. Foreigners here can't have gun licences and I am...

Neither of us have ever deliberately killed and animal, not even for food. However, we have now reached the end of our joint tether. Over the last two years or so, we have lost around fifty turkeys and chickens to dogs. A needy dog that we were caring for temporarily last year was attacked by...