The electronic animal repelling device is the most ludicrous farce ever perpetrated on the public. They don't run off mice, rats, dogs, raccoons, possums nor any other creature I've ever heard of. The sprinkler idea is equally ineffective.
Just go ahead and try to discuss the problem with the owners of the cats. And, when one gets run over by a car, dies of natural causes or someone else knows how to rid themselves of a lurking killer, you will be blamed!
A guy just up the road from my son complained to the owner of a dog that was caught red-handed killing chickens and horribly mauling a young goat his daughter loved dearly. He explained to the low-life that if the dog came back he was gonna call animal control. Within a week both of his dogs were dead from poisoning.
I have not made many friends here with my stand for extreme predator control. I just don't understand why some people think that because an animal has predatory instincts embedded in their DNA, that my instincts to protect me and mine is inhumane. There is no more powerful instinct than to protect yourself and your family/stock. It is the predator's overwhelming desire to kill that makes the solution to the problem to eliminate the threat. This is a natural reaction and a very effective solution that is as old as mankind!
Some how, it has become fashionable to believe that it is less cruel for chickens and stock to die an agonizing death to a predator, than for the predator to die.
Just go ahead and try to discuss the problem with the owners of the cats. And, when one gets run over by a car, dies of natural causes or someone else knows how to rid themselves of a lurking killer, you will be blamed!
A guy just up the road from my son complained to the owner of a dog that was caught red-handed killing chickens and horribly mauling a young goat his daughter loved dearly. He explained to the low-life that if the dog came back he was gonna call animal control. Within a week both of his dogs were dead from poisoning.
I have not made many friends here with my stand for extreme predator control. I just don't understand why some people think that because an animal has predatory instincts embedded in their DNA, that my instincts to protect me and mine is inhumane. There is no more powerful instinct than to protect yourself and your family/stock. It is the predator's overwhelming desire to kill that makes the solution to the problem to eliminate the threat. This is a natural reaction and a very effective solution that is as old as mankind!
Some how, it has become fashionable to believe that it is less cruel for chickens and stock to die an agonizing death to a predator, than for the predator to die.
Hubby and I have already discussed it....we will leave him alone as long as he doesn't bother the coop. But he probably will. 
