@Rach4 What the people meant was that their dog is afraid of cats, so it couldn't have gone after a chicken... But yeah.
@KikisGirls The husband came over and wrote the check the day it happened, and I had given them an itemized bill that detailed everything. The wife came over the next morning with the letter (which contained many more excuses and reasons their dog didn't do it, tried to even pin it on my dog, whom would rather nap with the chickens and share the scratch grains (he was inside when it happened)), and her husband standing sheepishly in tow. The letter was even dated and signed at the bottom - a printed letter that looked like some legal case file gone bad. What made it funny (somewhat in hindsight) was that they started it by "We have had our dog for X years. We know you've had chickens for a year, as we can hear them crowing in the morning." A) It was my 3rd year of chicken keeping at that point, B) that was a very sly complaint, maybe? I've had roosters now for 2 years, and have only gotten compliments from older neighbors of how it reminds them of the farm they grew up on. Never has anyone said anything about the noise, and if they did, No-Crow collars would be purchased immediately, provided it was a reasonable and polite complaint.
@KikisGirls The husband came over and wrote the check the day it happened, and I had given them an itemized bill that detailed everything. The wife came over the next morning with the letter (which contained many more excuses and reasons their dog didn't do it, tried to even pin it on my dog, whom would rather nap with the chickens and share the scratch grains (he was inside when it happened)), and her husband standing sheepishly in tow. The letter was even dated and signed at the bottom - a printed letter that looked like some legal case file gone bad. What made it funny (somewhat in hindsight) was that they started it by "We have had our dog for X years. We know you've had chickens for a year, as we can hear them crowing in the morning." A) It was my 3rd year of chicken keeping at that point, B) that was a very sly complaint, maybe? I've had roosters now for 2 years, and have only gotten compliments from older neighbors of how it reminds them of the farm they grew up on. Never has anyone said anything about the noise, and if they did, No-Crow collars would be purchased immediately, provided it was a reasonable and polite complaint.