Crying... everything is dead. UPDATE POST #54

[Gargoyle]

In some states animal cruelty is a felony. Here's the first site if found listing the breakdown by state, I don't know how authoritative it is: http://www.lisaviolet.com/cathouse/cruelty.html

Point being, if it is a felony in your state, you can lean more on the cops to do forensics, like take fingerprints from the cut section of fence and from the area around the cut (someone would lean against the fence while cutting or tearing it and leave prints).

 

[johnsons-r-us]

Wow, that is terrible! Take pictures now and I would call police to report it. How could someone be so mean.

 

[Patches The Hen]

I feel so sorry for you!!!!!!!

What kind of an aweful person would do that? It just makes me upset and disgusted with the person. I mean even if it is a kid, what kind of person are they going to grow up to be? If they are smart enough to cut a hold in the fence, they are old enough to know better.

Good luck finding out who or what is killing your birds

 

[Chinchilla2]

Quote:
Actually, in Texas, it is the owner of the animal that has the responsibility to keep that animal on the property, not the property owner's responsibility to keep animals off. It's an old livestock law that has been on the books for ages. If the animal in question can be owned, be it a cat, dog, chicken, buffalo, etc., the owner of that animal has the duty to keep it under control on their property. That's the basis behind leash laws. The same applies to cattle and chickens. If they make it to a road and someone hits them and does damage to their vehicle, you get to repair or buy them a new vehicle. The only exception to this law is wildlife. If a wild animal (read NOT a stray dog) comes onto your property and kills your animals, you have the right to kill said animal under the livestock protection law. If that animal is a two legged predator, you have the right to shoot that two-legged predator to protect your property. Many states have the "deadly force to save a life" law, Texas has the "deadly force to protect life and property" law. So if I was to come home and find two dogs and a drunk making dinner with a chicken within my unfenced property, I can unload my 12 gauge on all three.

 

[spatulagirl]

Cop came and I filed a report. They were nice although there is nothing they can really do.

 

[pamperedpoultry]

Quote:
Actually, in Texas, it is the owner of the animal that has the responsibility to keep that animal on the property, not the property owner's responsibility to keep animals off. It's an old livestock law that has been on the books for ages. If the animal in question can be owned, be it a cat, dog, chicken, buffalo, etc., the owner of that animal has the duty to keep it under control on their property. That's the basis behind leash laws. The same applies to cattle and chickens. If they make it to a road and someone hits them and does damage to their vehicle, you get to repair or buy them a new vehicle. The only exception to this law is wildlife. If a wild animal (read NOT a stray dog) comes onto your property and kills your animals, you have the right to kill said animal under the livestock protection law. If that animal is a two legged predator, you have the right to shoot that two-legged predator to protect your property. Many states have the "deadly force to save a life" law, Texas has the "deadly force to protect life and property" law. So if I was to come home and find two dogs and a drunk making dinner with a chicken within my unfenced property, I can unload my 12 gauge on all three.

Sounds like a pretty good law to me, if we had some better laws and not some of these off the wall ones, we'd be in alot better shape as a country.

 

[pamperedpoultry]

Quote:
that just gripes my hindend lol!! Maybe something will turn up so you'll know who did it.. that would bother me more than anything the not knowing..

 

[ChicKat]

Quote:
Actually, in Texas, it is the owner of the animal that has the responsibility to keep that animal on the property, not the property owner's responsibility to keep animals off. It's an old livestock law that has been on the books for ages. If the animal in question can be owned, be it a cat, dog, chicken, buffalo, etc., the owner of that animal has the duty to keep it under control on their property. That's the basis behind leash laws. The same applies to cattle and chickens. If they make it to a road and someone hits them and does damage to their vehicle, you get to repair or buy them a new vehicle. The only exception to this law is wildlife. If a wild animal (read NOT a stray dog) comes onto your property and kills your animals, you have the right to kill said animal under the livestock protection law. If that animal is a two legged predator, you have the right to shoot that two-legged predator to protect your property. Many states have the "deadly force to save a life" law, Texas has the "deadly force to protect life and property" law. So if I was to come home and find two dogs and a drunk making dinner with a chicken within my unfenced property, I can unload my 12 gauge on all three.

True Cindy,
we owners are liable if one of our animals gets on the road and auto accident occurs. In a conversation with a county judge he told us we must rely on OUR fences to keep out neighboring animals.... (maybe a conflict there, but I trust that the judge has a handle on the law)-- and we are in Texas.

 

[naillikwj82]

I agree that the legal reason for the fence is to restict animals from leaving the owners property. Also remember to keep a copy of the police report. keep the fence parts for later evidence if needed, and finally take many pictures of this type of event.

 

[Johnn]

so you had 3 suvivours?