All my sweet birds are gone. What to do?

[The Lazy L]

Get it on video and threaten them that you might kill their dogs.

I respectfully disagree about threatening the dogs owners. IMHO you are setting yourself up for a unjustified lawsuit that will cost you money to win. SSS

 

[yickenscarf23]

Chicken wire or 1/4" hardware cloth?

I'm not sure how to describe it. It's like a cattle panel but with smaller holes, really tough stuff. My own pitbull has grabbed it and didn't even bend the wire. The dogs didn't disrupt the fence they took the side off the coop, pulling the screws that held the hinges on off. We are overhauling everything and going with thicker wood this time and longer screws with some kind of cover on the hinges.

 

[WindingRoad]

I never thought of electric fence. That's a definite purchase when we begin to fix everything. It is inside of a fence that had boards buried a few inches and there's a dog sized hole dug underneath it. I've never seen domestic pets with the manic pack mentality these ones do. It just gets me so heated. The horses are going to be locked up in the barn because there really isn't a way to put electric fence around their pasture it's probably 30 acres of property. The cops out here are useless. He told me all they can do is request the dog be kept up.

Doesn't your state have a leash law. Even in the back woods here in Maine loose dogs are in violation of the STATE leash law and the owners will be fined and maybe the dogs taken from them.

 

[Trish1974]

Doesn't your state have a leash law. Even in the back woods here in Maine loose dogs are in violation of the STATE leash law and the owners will be fined and maybe the dogs taken from them.

Yes, Indiana has a leash law.

 

[WindingRoad]

Yes, Indiana has a leash law.

There ya go.

 

[WindingRoad]

There ya go.

I'll tell you the quickest way in Maine to get your dog shot and killed is for some one to catch it running deer. We keep close tabs on our deer.

 

[anderstr196]

It breaks my heart. Our rooster was a tiny Cochin bantam that was just too sweet. My mind wanders to how scared he must have been and how tiny. He could not have put up a fight.

I’m so sorry for your loss! This is, by far, my worst nightmare! I have three Cochin frizzle bantam Roo’s and this broke my heart to think of! Plz keep us updated on your eggs.

 

[Shezadandy]

I respectfully disagree about threatening the dogs owners. IMHO you are setting yourself up for a unjustified lawsuit that will cost you money to win. SSS

If everyone takes the time to look up their applicable laws, and to know the particulars- and you manage to cite the law being broken by the owner of the dog -- and the remedies available to you under the law - that wouldn't be a threat, that would be information pertinent to the situation at hand. Taking video of the dogs in the act (especially if action is taken) would be also a very important step to proving the threat.

Searching on your county and state and "dog" "livestock" usually brings up the statutes, which must carefully be reviewed if you have a nuisance animal. Around here, the "Dangerous Dog" definition reads "any dog that has, due to the lack of the exercise of proper and adequate supervision and control by its owner or keeper, done an act harmful in its character, to human beings or animals, regardless of whether done in a playful or hostile manner." And goes on to say "It is a civil infraction for any person to be the keeper of a dangerous dog."

There was a local case a few years back where someone shot a dog for killing his chickens - but the problem was … he trapped the dog- THEN shot it in the trap. It was another habitual offender - he'd lost chickens before to that dog. Still, he was taken to court and ran into legal problems due to the manner in which the dog was killed- not in the act of killing his animals, but sitting in a trap.


2017 ORS 609.150¹
Right to kill dog that harms or chases livestock
(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, any dog, whether licensed or not, which, while off the premises owned or under control of its owner, kills, wounds, or injures any livestock not belonging to the master of such dog, is a public nuisance and may be killed immediately by any person. However, nothing in this section applies to any dog acting under the direction of its master, or the agents or employees of such master.

(2) If any dog, not under the control of its owner or keeper, is found chasing or feeding upon the warm carcass of livestock not the property of such owner or keeper it shall be deemed, prima facie, as engaged in killing, wounding or injuring livestock.

(3) No person shall kill any dog for killing, wounding, injuring or chasing chickens upon a public place, highway or within the corporate limits of any city. [Amended by 1975 c.749 §6]

 

[aart]

I'm not sure how to describe it. It's like a cattle panel but with smaller holes, really tough stuff.

Dimensions of hole size and a pic would remove all doubt.

Any update on the dog situation @yickenscarf23 ?

 

[Trux]

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