Issues with neighbors dogs

[Finchbreeder]

I'm with the paintball shooting. If the dog rubs paint on their walls or carpet that just might do the trick.

 

[2 Acres]

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.

Put those people on a "3 strike" notice.

 

[mowin]

I've given dogs back to their owners not breathing. Gotten called all sorts of names, and gotten death threats. Was never worried though.

Decided SSS was so much easier. Fido just went missing, and is probably wagging his tail with a new family.

Livestock isn't cheap. Food, medicine, fencing, buildings to house livestock cost money. A dog attacking or harassing is eliminated.

 

[SamLockwood]

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.

The only difference for me when a neighbor's pet is baking around my birds is they get one warning shot. Otherwise when a predator attacks my flock I do my best to kill it.

Look at it this way, of the pet's owner really loved it, they would not let it roam wild around the neighborhood. If you don't want your pet run over or shot by an anxious livestock keeper, don't let it run loose like a wild animal. The same goes for chicken keepers. If you don't take adequate measures to keep your birds on your property and something bad happens to them, that's on you.