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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    The dogs have not been seen since, though not because of animal control. Perhaps another neighbor shot and killed them. One can only hope. Unfortunately, we had another tragedy :(. We had six 5.5 week old poults in a store-bought/assemble-yourself coop and something busted two of the coop...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Yeah, we put up electric fencing across the part of the yard that had been unfenced.
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Yup, having pets that qualify as livestock gives you a LOT of leeway to defend them in Texas and even makes it ok for someone else to kill the dogs on my behalf now that they've been seen attacking livestock. If those dogs ever get loose in this neighborhood again, I doubt they'll be alive for...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    *hug* sorry to hear you've lost flock members as well :( I put a note in the offending neighbor's mailbox informing them that the next time I see one if their dogs on my property, I'm going to put a bullet in its brain. Total bluff, but they don't know I don't have a gun. I made fliers with a...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Yeah, antifreeze in dog food would do it, but that's a sucky death and not an option, since our cats are spending a lot of time outside. They only come in at night after chickie girls go to sleep, since they're all terrified of chickens, lol. Our hen at the bottom of the pecking order tends to...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Well, anthing short of confiscation or death seems moot, given that the dogs are diggers and I don't trust them not to dig their way to the hens. I've gotta figure something out, though. Chickens do NOT belong inside, lol! Another murder occurred today... of the last kolache, which had been...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Animal control is incompetent!! They took the sheriff to the dog owners' house thinking it was ours because they can't read reports and told my mother-in-law to put "her dogs" up before they came back so they wouldn't be confiscated as well... BUT THOSE WERE THE DOGS WHO KILLED MY BABIES...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    As long as those dogs run free, my chickie girls are inside. I just tripped over them all in the kitchen while husband and I were getting a bedtime snack (I work nights). They're so naughty and so darn sweet! I love the way they talk to me with their soft clucks; I swear they ask me...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Wow! Lots of discussion while I was busy with life. I appreciate all the input and opinions. I realize I am partially to blame for not doing more to protect my flock...but that does not excuse my neighbors' inaction. I also realize that I used emotional words like "murder" and "slaughter"...
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    Our Dog Killed the Neighbors' Turkey Poult

    I'm glad you've been making yourself let go of the guilt! That's SO difficult when you feel responsible for the loss of an animal's life. We've got a ridiculous number of animals in lieu of children... Over the course of a marriage that's about to hit the 8 year mark, we've had our share of...
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    Our Dog Killed the Neighbors' Turkey Poult

    We already sent reports with tons of photographic evidence to local animal control about these neglectful... Let's call them "jerks"... Who let their vicious dogs run free and don't spay or neuter any of them. I have a thread in this section for ideas on how else to pursue legal revenge (I...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Oh, and as for talking to the neighbors in question, my mother-in-law says they don't speak English... and even if they did, I hate confrontation and the odds of me ending up either sobbing or screaming obscenities seems awfully high. It's in everyone's best interest that I not be face-to-face...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Thanks guys! I'll explore the links in depth after I've gotten some sleep. Our poor cats are acting really freaked out still. They all happened to be outside yesterday morning and they never stray from our property, so they would've witnessed or at least heard the massacre. They were afraid...
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    Please help! Seeking every legal avenue for vengeance after a slaughter (TX).

    Two beautiful drakes (Freya and Marshall Mathers) and a gorgeous rooster (Mozzie) were violently and viciously slaughtered in our yard today. They were all just 10 months old and the ducks had come to us as hatchlings. Had my poor, traumatized Mother-in-law (who lives in a separate trailer on...
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    Our Dog Killed the Neighbors' Turkey Poult

    I skipped from the first post to the end... I want to say that our two duck boys and our rooster were brutally murdered today on our property by 2 dogs whose owners think it's ok to let them free-range throughout the neighborhood. I wish my neighbors were a fraction as considerate as you are...
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