Hello! I'm new here.
I have a problem with my neighbors, they let their chickens roam our neighborhood (we live inside city limits). I have a dog who has a high prey drive, but has never killed anything, he just chases. Their chickens come into my fenced in backyard and my dog could possibly harm or kill them and I don't want that for the chickens or for him (I'm sure they would blame him because he's a husky/pit bull mix). As I said, we do have a fenced yard, but the chickens just hop over it (same as they do the neighbor's 7ft high fence).
Also, they had a few stray dogs come into their yard and kill some of their chickens last year and they tried to blame it on our dog. They said "because he's a husky and that's what they do". Which really made me mad. My dog was in my house with me all day that day, and they claimed to have security footage, so it would have been obvious it wasn't my dog. Why would they let the chickens roam, knowing they've been attacked by dogs in their own yard before?
I've called animal control on them and they are gonna come out and talk to the neighbors. Hopefully animal control can make them contain their chickens, but is there anything I could do if they won't? Like maybe put up something that would scare them away from my yard along my fence? And if their chickens are in my yard and my dog does injure or kill one, would we be liable?
I would not mind the chickens in my yard if I didn't have a dog, but I just wanna keep all the animals safe. I've never own chickens so I was hoping someone on this forum about chickens would have ideas on how to keep them out of my yard, to keep them safe.
I have a problem with my neighbors, they let their chickens roam our neighborhood (we live inside city limits). I have a dog who has a high prey drive, but has never killed anything, he just chases. Their chickens come into my fenced in backyard and my dog could possibly harm or kill them and I don't want that for the chickens or for him (I'm sure they would blame him because he's a husky/pit bull mix). As I said, we do have a fenced yard, but the chickens just hop over it (same as they do the neighbor's 7ft high fence).
Also, they had a few stray dogs come into their yard and kill some of their chickens last year and they tried to blame it on our dog. They said "because he's a husky and that's what they do". Which really made me mad. My dog was in my house with me all day that day, and they claimed to have security footage, so it would have been obvious it wasn't my dog. Why would they let the chickens roam, knowing they've been attacked by dogs in their own yard before?
I've called animal control on them and they are gonna come out and talk to the neighbors. Hopefully animal control can make them contain their chickens, but is there anything I could do if they won't? Like maybe put up something that would scare them away from my yard along my fence? And if their chickens are in my yard and my dog does injure or kill one, would we be liable?
I would not mind the chickens in my yard if I didn't have a dog, but I just wanna keep all the animals safe. I've never own chickens so I was hoping someone on this forum about chickens would have ideas on how to keep them out of my yard, to keep them safe.
sorry that you are having to deal with this. You have done the proper thing by contacting Animal Control. Talk with the animal control agent about possible liability on your part.
