neighbor's pest (rooster)

[meriruka]

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What I'm saying is that if my trashcan blows on to your yard, you do not get to keep it.


Not because I feel an obligation to, but because as some one stated, it makes a strong statement.

Actually, I said that.

I'm fairly sure everyone here would not hesitate to protect our livestock. I'm also sure that the rooster owner was not responsible. I for one am not criticizing (sp?), just trying to understand how it's ok to keep someone else's property or not notify them.
I live in a very rural area, so when people say" That's how it is here" I just would like to know why, because it's not that way here.

 

[Buster]

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Read my post, number 59, it should give you a good idea as to why and maybe give you an insight into why people avoid this confrontation with their neighbors.

 

[meriruka]

How could they be great friends if one party's
chickens are getting killed? If they chose to forgive that, bless them, they are better people then I.
I'd be willing to bet that most people who have neighbors aminals invading their property on a regular basis are not on the best of terms to begin with.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Let's back up for a second and look at the animal. We keep comparing this
rooster to dogs. While there are similarities it is different.

I had a dog hit by a car. The person stopped, told me, and felt horrible.
The dog lost it's life because I WASN'T WATCHING IT. IT'S MY FAULT.
Was that person very nice by letting me know? Sure he was. He even
stopped by a few weeks later to check on me and offer me a puppy.
Talk about a nice guy.

My point is I was at fault. That person owed me nothing.

I believe, in theory, meriruka is correct. But in reality this rooster was not
kept on it's owners property and was a danger. The owner is owed nothing.
Let him think the roo got killed by a predator and move on.

 

[Buster]

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Thank you purplechicken. I agree with you that meriruka is correct in theory. I believe I even applauded one of meriruka's arguments. I did not mean to confuse a dog with a rooster- it was just the handiest analogy I had at the time. It doesn't matter to me what the animal is, I will protect what is mine and if it happens to be someone's animal that has trespassed onto my property, I will dispose of it how I see fit and use my own disgression when I choose whether or not to disclose it to my neighbor. I will usually do what causes the least amount of contention with my neighbors because- hey- we all have to live here and it's much nicer if we all get along.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

we all have to live here and it's much nicer if we all get along.

That's why I like you so much Jared, sensible and sweet...Purple too and he is right

Let him think the roo got killed by a predator and move on.

pardon the pun, but ya'll are beating a dead horse (roo) here...​

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

People here that don't agree with the actions your granddaughter did do need to understand that you can kill an animal if it wanders over onto your property and harms an animal or human.

You can't if their not on your property.

 

[pacanis]

OK, I'm new here, but I'll say something (trying to remember seven pages worth of posts)....

First, I don't get the Baskin Robbins 51 flavors referrence. No, I don't know why they have 51 flavors.

The girl was right in protecting her animals.

The girl's guardian was wrong for keeping mum about it and letting the kid's think it was alright to take a life, even for the right reasons, not say a word and destroy the evidence (eat in this case).

The neighbor needs told. Point blank. Man up is the expression. At least act responsible.

That said, I sure wish my neighbor would keep his garbage and cans out of my yard. I've got a married couple and a bunch of their married daughters and sons living UPWIND of me and I'm getting real tired of picking up their garbage and putting their containers back in their yard. Cars coming and going from their driveway.. and no inclination to gather their too light garbage cans, but that's besides this point. I just wanted to say you should be responsible for your stuff, living or inantimate.

Now, the kicker, and I'm going from memory here...... Do I recall the OP saying that the seven year old girl did not know picking up the roo and swinging it by the neck would kill it? And she handles her own birds!? Was taught how to shoot a .22!? Was given a .410 for Christmas or something?!
That, I have to question.

 

[meriruka]

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There's 51 flavors because everyone has different tastes.
I was just trying to illustrate that what is good for one person might not be good to the next.

You're really going to open a can of worms with that last statement. As much of a pain as I was in this thread about property rights, I think people should raise their kids the way they see fit (barring abuse, of course). I for one would have loved to be taught something useful at a young age instead of coloring books and cartoons. I still have no idea how to kill a chicken in the most humane way possible and have never cut one up. (In my defense, I am vegetarian, so I can dice up some veggies like a champ, but meat is kind of a mystery). Anyway , I know I'll have to someday put one of my chickens out of it's misery and I'm not happy that I don't really know how.
The OP's little one has a head start on the some of the skills she'll need later on, I think it's a good thing.

 

[pacanis]

Thanks, I had never heard that expression before. I guess everyone around here must have the same tastes, because all the BR's closed down

I didn't mean to open up another can of worms. I just think things may have been a little "sugar coated" by the OP. If the girl killed the roo on purpose, come out and say it. She had every right to. But if she tends to animals and doesn't know what can and cannot hurt or kill them.... No, I do not understand that. JMO.
I am purely guessing that at some point she was told/taught not to pick up her chickens by the neck or she may harm them. She knew she killed the roo because she wanted to put it to good use as she had also been taught. But this is just my own theory based on how smart the seven year olds I'm around can be