Issues with neighbors dogs

[TexasBlues]

Here is your answer. Unless they are going to contain their animals, which they will not, this is the end result.
Seems they are now a Pack and I would not want to be near them.
it's very sad all around but sometimes you need to just shut off that side of your thinking, shoot them and drag them to the owners house and leave them. Or at least one, they MAY keep the others contained.

Haha these dog threads really bring out the psychos

 

[Tormund]

Haha these dog threads really bring out the psychos

It's not Psychotic to shoot animals that repeatedly attack your animals. No more than it is to cull a rooster that harms the hens.

 

[ValkerieGunn]

Haha these dog threads really bring out the psychos

I live outside town limits. Animal control told me to "Go ahead and shoot stray dogs because you are out of our jurisdiction and our shelters are full so don't even think of trapping them to bring in." So I tried to work with them and was told no. Eliminating a threat does not in any way make somebody psychotic if they have no other choice.

 

[McChooky]

Don't call county officials, go down there. Public officials who are elected need to be held accountable.Talking to them face to face will get more attention than a phone call.Its against the law for county officials to let a dangerous dogs run at large

 

[TexasBlues]

I live outside town limits. Animal control told me to "Go ahead and shoot stray dogs because you are out of our jurisdiction and our shelters are full so don't even think of trapping them to bring in." So I tried to work with them and was told no. Eliminating a threat does not in any way make somebody psychotic if they have no other choice.

Are you going to shoot them and drag them to the owners house and leave them? because that is psychotic behavior. I never said killing them was wrong. come on people.

shoot them and drag them to the owners house and leave them.

 

[ValkerieGunn]

Are you going to shoot them and drag them to the owners house and leave them? because that is psychotic behavior. I never said killing them was wrong. come on people.

I personally wouldn't waste my time trying to figure out who owned them. That said if I knew whose dog it was I can't say if I would return it home or not. I haven't experienced the emotional in the moment upset with full knowledge of just where the dog came from. When thinking with a clear mind No I would not but in the heat of the moment who knows. I still don't believe it would make someone a psychotic person just vindictive.

 

[HobbyHoarder]

If it were a wild animal like a raccoon like I initially thought that’s one thing but knowing it’s one of my neighbors pets is completely different for me. Obviously I won’t let them kill my animals tho so I’m just wondering if anyone on here has had to handle a situation like this? I shot at one that got a little too close to me but I missed and it ran off. I just know im gonna feel so guilty.

We lost our entire 18 hen flock a few years back to dogs over the course of 2 attacks over 2 weeks. First time we never figured out how they got in, and they just ripped the entire gate down the second time. It was crazy and I still don't understand how the dogs managed that. We had chased the dogs off a few times with warning shots because we were hesitant to actually shoot our neighbors dog even though law enforcement had told us to each time we'd called previously. I honestly regret telling my partner to "just scare them, don't hurt them please." We came home to our ladies all murdered and not even eaten. I could understand a predator killing and eating them, but to come home to a massacre and none eaten was somehow so much worse.

The dogs in question are gone now, but we've sworn this time that we're not going to be as forgiving. Each dog gets one warning max and that's it, then my partner is going to take care of it. We really don't want to shoot a dog, and he would feel terrible about it, but I can't even imagine losing my ducks. I've gotten so attached to the one especially that I don't think I would easily get over it if anything got my girl.

If a dog goes home with paint on it, IMO the owners are going to be agitated enough to either address the problem or address who they think did it. And then you can state your case and say you were trying to train the dog to stay off your property and not kill it.

I think this depends on the neighbor to be honest. The ones across and down the road from us both don't seem to care at all. The dogs who ate my flock were the parents of a whole bunch of pups. I ended up gathering up some of the puppies because they were desperately skinny and hungry, and rehoming 2 and took the rest to the shelter. I never did catch either the parents or a couple of the puppies and over time they gradually disappeared between coyotes and being hit by cars. If the family cared, they certainly never did anything to keep their animals safe or even looked for the missing ones I took (with the full blessing of law enforcement.) I don't even think they bothered to feed them every day if I'm honest, it was awful all around.

I think I could have sent their dogs home just absolutely covered with paintball spots and they wouldn't even have blinked.

Dogs get one chance for trespassing. We have an airhorn.

I've never tried an airhorn for warning off dogs before. Have you found that the dogs still tend to come back eventually or is it a fairly effective deterrent in your experience?

 

[ValkerieGunn]

I've never tried an airhorn for warning off dogs before. Have you found that the dogs still tend to come back eventually or is it a fairly effective deterrent in your experience?

I only had one dog come back and it was a few minutes later because she had left a puppy behind. They were not bothering our animals just on the property so I did find the owner and he came and got them. I do notice it works best on lone dogs, when it comes to packs sometimes they seem to hesitate before running off but they go eventually. Thankfully between the LGD of 1 neighbor for the goats and mine and another neighbors dogs we don't deal with a lot of strays.

 

[McChooky]

Our neighbors wife used to wait until her husband was gone to work to turn his dogs loose (all 4 of them) He worked out of town and she was rarely home so my brother put up 3 dog kennels and took care of the dogs himself. Sometimes they'd come get the dogs on weekends but sometimes they'd wait for weeks.Eventually her husband gave him the dogs because his wife let them kill all his chickens.He gave me the only survivor.

 

[2 Acres]

In need of advice. Pls no rude comments.
For three nights I’ve had something come into my yard trying to kill my animals. specifically chickens but i have goats including small babies also. I set up a camera and left the camera up on my phone and happened to wake up tonight to see a German shepherd in my yard. Went outside and it was actually three that I’ve seen roam my area before. Thankfully I keep my animals locked away at night except for one chicken that got out and they killed it. Anyway, when I went out there intending on scaring off or even dispatching, I couldn’t do it. I scared them off but I lost my nerve in actually dispatching them. If it were a wild animal like a raccoon like I initially thought that’s one thing but knowing it’s one of my neighbors pets is completely different for me. Obviously I won’t let them kill my animals tho so I’m just wondering if anyone on here has had to handle a situation like this? I shot at one that got a little too close to me but I missed and it ran off. I just know im gonna feel so guilty. I figured I’d call animal control but there doesn’t seem to be any in my area. My next line of action now is contacting the people who own these dogs. Thing is they don’t care what happens to them and have advised us in the past to shoot their dogs if they come in my yard. I’m in northeast Texas, jefferson area if anyone knows of any resources that’d be great. I have a LGD in training but it’s young and not in the same part of my yard where my chickens are.

Contact you local animal control agency.