Predators and pests, both describe my neighbors

That is really very close to filing a false report. Not sure which side of the line it would fall on.

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Not all adults are grown up

So true...but....my original thought about it being a juvenile is calling Child Protective Services (or whatever it is in your state) to investigat the parents to make sure that the children are being cared for and supervised properly.

Another thought; Dragonlair, maybe you could write a letter to the editor of your newspaper and state that you have been having trouble with someone, you suspect a child, letting your animals loose. Explain that you are afraid that if it is a child, that they might get hurt (especially with the horses) and that you are looking into getting CPS involved. Explain that you are concerned that there may be unsupervised children in your neighborhood (and NAME the neighborhood) and you just don't know what else to do. Might work and at the least, it might make the neighbors who DO take care of their children put pressure on the 'perpetrator neighbors' to leave you and yours alone so as not to get a visit from a state agency. If you need help writing the letter to the editor, let me know.

Most people that have been through it would rather have both my eyes gouged out with a dull stick than be investigated by CPS...

Sonoran Silkies wrote: "That is really very close to filing a false report. .."

Actually , its not. She would not be filing a report at all. If you read my earlier post, starting at 'another thought', I'm suggesting writing a letter to the editor; not filing an actual report-HUGE difference. I've copied that post here; just read it again and I think you'll understand what I mean. A letter to the editor phrased properly will likely do one of two things: 1) Make parents in the neighborhood watch their children more closely and 2) get the neighbors who haven't done anything to the OP to influence the ones that have been harrassing her to stop. Either way it goes, its a win/win for dragonlair. Again, I'm suggesting writing a letter to the editor of the newspaper, not making an actual report to CPS.

Frankly --- filing a report with CPS when you know or don't know a child that needs help, if that ain't a false report I don't know what is. Some child some where may really need the help of the investigator that would be busy investigating a report filed because some one was peed off.

Any way you cut it---- that ain't right.

What I would do is replace the Roo Then pay a visit to each neighbour and don't
accuse but let the know there is a thief in the neighbourhood and to be careful. You know. Keep an eye on their
stuff. Then while there let them know that you are prepared to deal with said Thief if he or she is caught stealing from YOUR property.
Most importantly don't accuse anyone. Just let them know to keep an eye out. They will get the message if they did it and if they didn't, They
will think you are a good neighbour.

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Did you actually READ my post? Really...

Let me say again; I am not recommending filing a report with CPS. I'm recommending writing a letter to the editor of the newspaper.

get like 40 guinea hens, they will be begging for the rooster back they are the most annoying birds and they shriek 24/7. also an electric fence so when they go to grab them they will get zapped, oh and I don't mean a electric fence for dogs either i would get the ones they had on jarassic park!

People should be cognizant that escalating the situation (by getting 10 roosters or 40 guineas or whatever) is probably going to cause whoever is doing this (who has already shown that they're not concerned about destroying property, breaking laws, and killing animals) to escalate further. These are the sort of stupid little feuds that lead to someone getting shot, or someone's house getting burned down.

Buy a game camera, replace the rooster, and if something else happens, press every single charge you can. Everything needs to be documented, every incident needs to have a police report filed. Don'e screw around, don't allow any leeway.

Screw this. This is exactly the kind of stuff that gets my dander up. I once had a city neighbor. We lived in a river camp back home in Alabama with just a half a dozen river rat families living there. Then one summer a city lady and her brood bought the place next door for a weekend getaway. It all started on memorial day weekend. At first I felt sorry for the mister as she had him out there stepping and a fetching like somebody's red headed step child. Then she started in on me of all things. My grass needed cut, I had pine needles on my roof, my boat house was falling in. Heck the boathouse was falling in when I bought the and had been falling for the three years I owned it. But the straw that broke the camels back was when she got after my coon hounds raising heck from being tormented by her brats. I can tolerate alot being neighborly but I'll fight you over my dogs.
Soooooo, I cut my grass just like she asked every Saturday and Sunday starting bright and early at 4 o'clock AM. Her poor husband turned out to be neighborly himself offering to fix my muffler but my pride wouldn't let me accept. I starting working on that backlog of pine straw a little at a time and was very careful to only burn it when it was damp so it wouldn't get out of control and that the wind was right and wouldn't blow out across the water and cause a hazard. Heck I even pulled the water hyacinth out of the river and burned it so she wouldn't have all those weeds around. I'm sure all that black smoke helped keep the mosquitos away. Next I fixed my falling in boathouse for her. I went ahead and pushed it all the way in. I got fired up got alot done even fired up the chainsaw and got my winter firewood, all four cords, laid by ahead of schedule. After all that work I thought my hounds and I needed a break so we went hunting on a nightly basis. Did I mention I lived in the woods in a river camp and turned the hounds loose from the yard.

By labor day her place had a for sale sign on it. Before they left her husband shook my hand and thanked me with a big grin on his face.

This may sound a little made up but it is gospel fact I made her life hell every weekend of that summer. It's not the first time either nor will it be the last if some busy body gets in my face with what I do on my own property I spent my hard earned money on.

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Holy Moly you are one mister I would not mess with! LOL LOL LOL It was great fun reading your post!