- Mar 8, 2014
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Pardon my ignorance to the exact verbage of the law, but isn't it completely legal to shoot any animal (protected species or not) if it harasses your livestock/poultry, especially if it is on your own property? I know that if, for instance, a neighbor's dog comes on my property and chases my sheep, I am within the protection of Federal law to kill that dog dead...and the same goes for predatory birds, as far as I know. Granted, if a predatory bird makes a nest in one of my trees, it is against the law to move the nest or kill the bird, BUT, if I witness the bird killing one of my animals, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), I am allowed to dispatch the offending bird. Is that not the case...?