I'll try and make this short as I can. I've seen two dogs in the garden recently, a couple of times, chased them out each time.
A few days a go, lost two chicks during a heavy thunderstorm. No sign of them. Was alerted to something being wrong by the rooster coming to sit on the living room window sill looking very wet and ragged. After going out to account for all chicks, noticed the two were missing, and walked the roads looking for any sign; found lots of white feathers about 100m down, rooster is white. I wondered about the dogs as my daughter had seen the rooster outside first, gone to the window and shouted "puppy!" at me. I decided I would put it down to them drowning in the heavy rain.
Well, yesterday, I do one of my hourly checks, and the two dogs have my chickens cornered. I manage to get outside chase them out of the garden and they run right into my problem neighbours yard. I decide to put my big girl knickers on and march up to the door, she answers, the dogs are sat on the porch waiting for her, I tell her what's going on and she denies they are hers. Says she "knows" one and it's a good dog, but the other showed up a few weeks a go. Then she tells me to call the SPCA to get them to pick the dogs up, but not to tell them they are hers, I have to say they're strays.
We're outside city limits, so I guess that means animal control, but animal control is closed weekends and holidays, so I can't call them until Tuesday.
This afternoon (Saturday) I shut the chickens away early because the dogs have been showing up just before sundown. Once again, check out of the window and the dogs are trying to get into the coop! I go outside with the BB gun, hit them a few times, they run right back to my neighbours. Check the coop, they've tried digging under, hit the concrete we have buried, then they tired CHEWING THROUGH THE WOODEN DOOR!
I'm at my wits end. My husband is working until Tuesday, I don't have access to any guns. It's so frustrating
A few days a go, lost two chicks during a heavy thunderstorm. No sign of them. Was alerted to something being wrong by the rooster coming to sit on the living room window sill looking very wet and ragged. After going out to account for all chicks, noticed the two were missing, and walked the roads looking for any sign; found lots of white feathers about 100m down, rooster is white. I wondered about the dogs as my daughter had seen the rooster outside first, gone to the window and shouted "puppy!" at me. I decided I would put it down to them drowning in the heavy rain.
Well, yesterday, I do one of my hourly checks, and the two dogs have my chickens cornered. I manage to get outside chase them out of the garden and they run right into my problem neighbours yard. I decide to put my big girl knickers on and march up to the door, she answers, the dogs are sat on the porch waiting for her, I tell her what's going on and she denies they are hers. Says she "knows" one and it's a good dog, but the other showed up a few weeks a go. Then she tells me to call the SPCA to get them to pick the dogs up, but not to tell them they are hers, I have to say they're strays.
We're outside city limits, so I guess that means animal control, but animal control is closed weekends and holidays, so I can't call them until Tuesday.
This afternoon (Saturday) I shut the chickens away early because the dogs have been showing up just before sundown. Once again, check out of the window and the dogs are trying to get into the coop! I go outside with the BB gun, hit them a few times, they run right back to my neighbours. Check the coop, they've tried digging under, hit the concrete we have buried, then they tired CHEWING THROUGH THE WOODEN DOOR!
I'm at my wits end. My husband is working until Tuesday, I don't have access to any guns. It's so frustrating
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