if you don't shoot guns, how do you kill roaming predators?

[picklespickles]

lgd is large guard dog?

while we're out today, i will look for the wire stuff and see about that.

i actually looked into some good to free home llamas but wasn't able to get them. i didn't know that about donkeys..... good to know it's best to just get one llama. i would have gotten two on purpose so they would have company.

regarding the blending in thing..... one reason why i haven't discussed various options with neighbors.

also, the kid who was attacked and whose dad now wants ME to call animal control lol-- their own dog has been attacking children in the neighborhood. how do i know? they have run into my home for protection.

and, in the past two weeks, he himself ran over another neighbors dog and just left it in the street. i moved it out of the street and everyone thought i was weird. now, they have gotten rid of their own attack dog, ostenibly for other reasons. i think the true reason is they are worried the run over animal's owner might return the favor to their own wandering dog.

it is such a soup around here. such a soup.

i was hoping the heeler would turn out to be a help, but i may have too gentle a nature in raising him. lol. ai. i got him when he was suffocating in a chip bag he had crawled into in the field next to me. i thought he was a stray as no one i showed him to knew who he belonged to. he was at my house for a good while before the owners missed him. he was so infested with ticks, they were along his eyes. i had to mop my floor three times in the first day from all the blood from smashing them under foot. i am not exagerating. i counted 800+ that i picked off while watching tv over the first 24 hours. he was anemic and i was told he actually could have died from that alone, much less the chip bag.

then the owers sent someone to get him back from me. they hadn't realized he wasn't at their house until they heard him puppy barking from behind my fence. seriously. i returned him. he kept running back to my house over and over again over the next few days. so finally they said, he likes your house better, just keep him. of course, they had taken off and thrown away the collar i had gotten for him. i gave their kid a stuffed animal and wrote her a little story about their dog to make her feel better. i didn't figure she was the one responsible for his bad care.

since i wouldn't want my own big dog wandering and don't want him chained either (very common around either. you do one or the other) then i need to put a big common fence outside the property line in the front which no way can i afford to do right now. (the attacks come from the back where there is a large fence.) or, maybe i will just get with the program and have my own chained dog out front. i'm considering poisoning dogs, who knows what i'll do next. oh, my. does anyone have an uncle they don't like. i might give you a good rate.

i got rat poison last night and some extra dog food. i couldn't find the cat til this morning, though. i think it didnt' come around til morning cause i got home so late last night it assumed i was staying in town. yeah, the cat knows my schedule. so, i caught it and put it in the bathroom with some food and its little cat bed i'd recycled from an old chihuahua bed.

i'm allergic to cats and now i have a cat in my house. great.

when i first got here, people would ask me for the puppies of my dogs beause they thought they were so cute. i'd go, no puppies, they're fixed. it was like i'd said, not only am i a communist but i also eat babies. it caused quite a stir. even the people who keep their dogs inside and don't let them roam don't fix their dogs. fixing your dogs is seen as a sign of wealth and/or stupidity and/or unfair to the animal for not letting it do it's thing.

so, lol, in their minds i am mean by fixing my animals. we all have our side of the story, no? oh. and i forgot to add. neighbor's unfixed pit is pregnant by stray dogs and is due soon. oh. can't stop laughing but in a sort of tragi-comedy sort of way. so, oh yes, there will always be this problem. i am only too aware of this.


a question, now, at the end. will the electric for sure keep them out, or it's sort of like everything else, hopefully it will keep most of them out. not saying i'm not going to do it, just need to understand the rules from the beginning.

so various options include:

gun
trap/gun
poison
electric
llama/donkey

THANKS TO EVERYONE.

 

[picklespickles]

we were posting at the same time i think. new mexico.

 

[nccatnip]

LGC- livestock guardian dog. But after reading your post, I take it you are not fenced in. That might solve your problem. Do whatever it takes.
I have to admit that I am very unsettled at the thought of purposely poisoning someone's dog. Not only is it inhumane, it is probably illegal.

 

[HFC]

I would NOT poison any animals for all the reasons others listed. If you're serious-shoot it and bury it and never say a word.

You'd hate to end up in court-civil or criminal. Especially with a plot posted on the internet for the whole world to see.

 

[picklespickles]

uh. i'm the only person for five miles with a computer or internet. not worried about that. a lot of people here don't even have electricity. seriously.

if i am having trouble affording a fence, how am i going to get money for a gun? not sure my employer would be happy to spring for that.

sorry. i am feeling touchy. late for work as it is. need to go recatch cat who is now lose in my house making my eyes water and me sneeze after she escaped when i went to the bathroom.

hope my day gets better

 

[MarkR]

I'm liking the idea of landmines, especially in the kind of area you're talking about. I'm only half joking.

Mark

 

[picklespickles]

lol

okay. yes. landmines i like.

i was thinking a tank to get to and from work with. might be a nice theme. i always liked cammo. maybe i could put the chihuhuas in little green and brown sweaters.

 

[HFC]

Good luck. You're in a tough situation, for sure.

 

[picklespickles]

thanks

 

[firechicken]

Maybe go to pawn shop and find a cheap small caliber handgun like a .22. The animal control around here will lend traps for free if you go pick them up. (no animal control coming to house) Trap them, shoot them, bury them.