Neighbor's dogs are at it again:(

[Emmalion]

I would say if you are close with the neighbors the next time you catch them and they are not home see if you can lock them inside the house or garage. They are trying to keep their dogs confined and with an emergency going on the last thing they need is their dogs running around but dogs are dogs and will find any way out possible.

I'm not saying go out chasing them but if you see them again and can catch them I would see if you can lock them inside somewhere.

Hope you neighbor does well in surgery.

 

[tls_ranch]

Thanks, it just relieves some stress talking about it here on the BYC

It's just a bad situation all around....

 

[sfw2]

for trying to do the right thing in a difficult situation. Hope your neighbor makes a full recovery.

 

[bobbi-j]

I will say it again - you're doing the right thing. I don't know where you live, but out here, "He's in the hospital with heart problems" means that he's in a hospital a minimum of 3 hours away from home and his wife is with him. We live in a farming community where neighbors take care of each other. Someone most likely would have taken the wife to the hospital, and others would be looking out for the dogs. Tying them up when caught, fixing the kennel, whatever. People need to come before animals. Thank you for doing the right thing. They don't need the added stress right now.

 

[aggie9296]

My initial thought was "shoot 'em". But with the health problems of the owners, the most neighborly thing would be to help them out. Tying the dogs up and ensuring they have food and water might buy you some gratitude and help from them in the future if you should have problems of your own.

Might try Animal Control if all else fails. At least they would be safe and fed and not killing anything else.

Good luck.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

Sometimes ya just need to vent and get it off your chest!

It is a frustrating situation, and you are a good person.

 

[tls_ranch]

Thanks everyone

A neighbor brought the dogs back and they are penned up again. The wife said that all the injured hens that I found and put back in the coop died. Only one is left alive and two missing. She's going to have another neighbor help fix the fence so the dogs don't get out and the husband is now scheduled for surgery tomorrow. I feel so sorry for her to have to go through this, she hasn't even told her husband yet because she doesn't want him to stress either. I'm sad about all those poor hens too

On a side note it was a little interesting that my chickens were freaking out when that other yellow lab was near my pen. My yellow lab and black lab hang out down there all the time without hardly an alarm call from the roos. My yellow lab even likes to hang out with chicks.

Here is my lab Eva with a few cockerels that liked to hang out with her. They were getting too rowdy for the brooder coop and I let them out to free range for a bit every day. She saved them from a great horned owl one evening. They were all clustered around Eva when I went out to gather them up and she chased the owl out of the tree

 

[happystaffs]

So my plan for paint balls is it a good one because i am so one more dog visit from it. Plus the thought of them rubbing bright pink paint all over the house makes me smile. my neighbors have 3 big dogs that come over and about 6 pomxs that come over. paint balling 4 pounds might be a little extreme however instead i bought a live trap and any i catch are going straight to the pound. already caught one of their dogs after she had plucked my white leghorns. lucky they got away thank goodness for molting. and that tail feathers grow back

 

[mulewagon]

tls_ranch, you're a sweet person and a good neighbor! If I ever have such an emergency, and things fall apart at home, I hope my neighbors are as understanding. And I hope to be as understanding for them, in the same circumstances...

 

[Peck Johnson]

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