Dilema with neighbor's dog...NOW WHAT?

[mikeksfarmer]

I am very sorry for you loss. There is a lot of great advice here. Mine is to creat a paper trail. You have your contact with the ACC, but write down your observations before talking to the neighbor, then finding the dead rooster, him driving off etc. Document your fixing the fence and doing your part. "Denial is not just a river in Egypt"! If this ever has to go to court, the judge having pictures, and accounts put together on the day they happen will have no choice but to defend you.
If I had a neighbor like this where I live I would shoot the dog. Sooner or later he would either get a dog that didnt kill chickens or care enought to fence them in properly. It is not the dogs fault, but you can not shoot the real culprit.

 

[krazeepolack]

There is a POSITIVE solution to a chicken raiding dog!!! It goes by the brand name RUGER!!!!!

 

[journey11]

Sorry for your loss! And the stress involved dealing with uncooperative neighbors.

I went through this last spring with my young neighbors. You have my sympathy. They thought since they lived in the country, all beautiful and ideal and bucolic as it were, that their dogs should be free to prance over the rolling hills. I did lose my cool with them at first and later regretted the tension that resulted. They were otherwise good neighbors. It's smoothed over now (largely because his grandparents, also neighbors, straightened the young couple out for me on how things *really* are in the country). Most folks aren't so lucky though. And there is always still the occasional random stray dog.

I think you handled it well. If the problem persists and your neighbors are still unapologetic about it, IMHO, quietly making the dog disappear into the next county (shelter) is really the smoothest solution. Way I see it, anyone who really cares about their dog's well-being will not habitually let it wander at large anyway. I sure panic when mine get out--I love them and don't want them to get hurt or in trouble (or aggravate my neighbors). I will never understand it.........

 

[journey11]

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Ooooh, good idea. I will keep that one in mind.

The cayenne works good too. Try making a tea out of it and filling a garden sprayer. Lock-and-load, baby! We "cured" a car-chasing neighbor dog that way once. (To be fair, I did go with ice water first, but that wasn't enough).