Gone without a trace - all 11!

[ScaredOfShadows]

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Baybrio my cousin and aunt are in law enforcement in the deputy sheriff's department and I've let them know what I think is going on over there. I think my cousin is trying to put together a sting operation (he's in drugs has a drug dog and all

) but I'm not sure, but he's the one who suggested the camera to take pictures, of anything else I can have him up for tresspassing if he does come on my property and if something is damaged the same day well i got the evidence he was the only one on my property that day when the damage was done. Before I moved in here (my dad was living here before) they had gotten drunk or high once and shot buck shot into one of the shed buildings X_x but a talk with the father the good neighbor and all has been well until he started getting ticked that I would feed and water the dog because he wasn't. Sorry but why do you care if I spend my money on your dog? especially when the dog keeps getting loose and coming on my porch or in my house? duh I could by rights shoot the dog, take it to the pound, call animal control, etc etc but all i ever done was feed it and water it and make sure it was OK when he wasn't around. *rolls eyes* his issue is of course he doesnt want me any where around a dog he wants to be mean and making the dog 'nice' (P.s. the dog hasn't a mean bone in her body towards me or my daughter - but she can be aggressive because she's been aggravated and chained for who knows how long) and he doesnt want me around his property when he's doing his 'business'....

yeah it sucks but he doesn't know who he's dealing with. He's close to being thrown off that property anyway by his father, so I shouldn't have to be dealing with him for much longer. I hope.

 

[katharinad]

You know it was him, or you would have not started to put a security barrier up, nor would you have been getting the camera. People just don't put up such security, if they didn't have a gut feeling that they should. It really stinks that your animals are gone. You could try a shot gun effect on him, but that may set him off. Something like a note stating that you give 24 hours to have your birds back where they belong or you will call the police with photo evidence. I know you don't have a pic, but you can still try. Otherwise you have to take your loses and move on. Man that sounds rotten. I would be furious too.
Katharina

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

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katharinad - The OP's ducks got to missing. I was giving her ideas on using a camera and electric fence and why I suggested such since I am having issues and am afraid that the crazy next door neighbor will decide since I ignore his existance he'll next decide to do something to my animals...I've heard him say something to one of buddies when i had my windows open the other week that 'the next time i catch her with my dog i'm going to mess with hers' (his heeler came in my house cause I had the door open letting the house air out after cleaning) and so I called me cousin the deputy and he said unless the threat was communicated directly to me or someone in my home I couldn't have him up for communicating threats...and he told me about the cameras and demanded I get atleast one so i could catch him if he ever came into my yard.

I havent had any animals go missing except my neighbor's drake (our drake) but i think he got eaten by a fox when he went to the cattle pond across the road.

 

[Rosecomb-Ryan]

This is terrable! I had a similar problem 2 years ago.

I was so excited I got a flock of 10 Giant Cochins.... I showed them at the PPBA show in Stockton CA.. I was excited some won first and BV's! So I was called over to the sale barn to pick up my friends pigeons whom needed help getting them. We went back and I walked down a row of birds that I thought mine were in! I walked down 2 different rows. Only 2 hens were left. I kept 2 hens at home! Some people!

If I were you check Eggbid, yahoo groups, craigslist, Kijiji, and any other sites! It scares me to think people would walk into someones PROPERTY and steal someone elses animals. At a show is bad but at your own house is terrable!


Ryan

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

I found one of my 7 week cockerals on the other side of the back fence, the other day. He would have had to get out of the brooder yard, go into the main backyard, then into the henhouse yard and under that fence to get where he was. I would never have thought one could, but he did. So back to a tractor for daytime outings, and the big heavy one this time and no more brooder yard for a while. The little escape artist.

Have you checked the other side of your fences. Check with your neighbors, check with animal control to let them know they are missing, ask if anyone has found them.

I keep my brooder, hen and duck houses all padilocked in case of 2 legged predators. Check raigslist in your area, see if anyone has your ducks for sale.
Baybrio -

Our dogs did not bark

If they were taken, someone you know?

Oh also, check with Wildlife Rehabilitation or Rescue and see if anyone has found and turned over your ducks to them.

Edited to add, if one got out the others would follow.​

 

[heatherindeskies]

humans come to my mind also. if there is a larger opening in the tractor, they may have been taken through that and the person pulled the board off in hopes it might look like a different predator to you....

 

[Baybrio]

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I can't believe someone would take your birds from a show! Talk about bad sportsmanship.

I've been checking Craigslist, and will add the other sites to my list to check. Thank you. And thank you Annarie for checking Craigslist for me!

Buttercup Chillin - Sounds like you have a real Houdini in your flock. I've looked high and low for them, I've looked under every bush around the barn (and in the barn) and house, walked the perimeter of the 7 acre horse pasture and paddocks, looked along the road. If they went through the horse pasture they could be anywhere in close to 200 acres of foot high corn. I'd never find them. I don't think if one got out the others would follow, I think the one that got out would be panicked and try to get back in. At least when I take one out and it protests (before peas are given) the others really don't seam concerned.

I never thought to call animal control, I'll do that tomorrow morning. And the wild life rehab and rescue folks will also get calls - great ideas.

Unfortunately my dogs are not really the best watch dogs. In their defense I live on a very busy state highway and it is hard for them to distinguish between cars slowing down to turn or cars slowing down to turn into the driveway. Plus we had the fan running. I just thought if there was a predator commotion they would have sounded an alarm.

You folks have really helped me sort through this. Thanks again.

 

[Sweetfolly]

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I occasionally have a duck manage to squeeze underneath a fence in their runs, and I always find the escapee running along the fence line, frantic to get back in. None of the others ever follow it out.