New Neighbors = pit bull = dead chickens

[emvickrey]

The way I see it. If your dog can do damage to others weather it be bodily injury or property damage, the owners ned to eep the dog restrained. If they are harmless let them roam. I have 4 dogs, only 2 of them are left to roam the area. The biggest nd smallest are kept restrained. The litle one is actually our meanest she is kept indoors except when we are outdoors or she has to potty. The biggest is actually the tamest one we have he just scares everybody and if he where to jump up on somebody to get petted he could knock them down or get shot from fear. He is kept in a pen and only let out for a breif period on the weekends when he can be watched like a hawk. Don't want to scare the neighbors.

We have never had any dog damage or hurt anybody elses person or property becuause we keep them under control.

We live in a rual area that has about 10 houses and a church on our street. Everybody is familiar with everybodys animals. Ours are the only ones that will not bother others chickens or livestock. Those that do ended up geting chained up or penned. OUr big dog will chase our chickens also. He is never let out when they are out and he is watched like a hawk when he is an dkept in our yard.

We wish other people across this country could be willing to be as responsible for their animals.

 

[Luvducks]

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Agreed!

 

[Tweeza]

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Also, bred that way by irresponsible people who use them for their terrible cruel fun. Remember that Vic person? Meaning, they will use the most aggressive dogs they can find to breed in hopes the offspring will be just as aggressive if not more.

 

[nzpouter]

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Seriously... you let your dogs roam..? All my neighbour get one warning, keep your animal within your own property, if I found any of them in my yard, they will be shot.... vice versa treatment will be understood and accepted.

Your dogs might not harm any other animals, but there is also no telling on how other people animals react to dogs. I have a goat that has been savaged by dogs, she get along fine with our dogs but not to strange dogs entering our property, rather than risking her injuring herself trying to jump the fence I'd rather put a bullet in the dog's head.

 

[KattyKillFish]

here is a link that may help you find the laws and regulations in your area to see if you can legally be rid of the animal
http://www.animallaw.info/statutes/stusakst03_55_030.htm

*edited by poster (KattyKillFish) for controversial/potentially offensice content.*

 

[Smartie_Pants]

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See, that's a little overboard. What if someone let their dog out to pee and it chased a squirrell and they couldn't run fast enought to catch it right off the bat. Or what if they were playing fetch and they through the ball to hard and it lost sight of it and went looking?

Its cruel to shoot any animal that is not doing damage to your animals, property, or well being. Some dogs can be very hard to train. I took in a stay that wondered up. She was a walker treeing coonhound that had been seriously abused and then thrown out. No telling how long she had been wondering around. If she got off her rope somehow, and it does happen to the best owners, things break, she would have ran all over the countryside for about five minutes, working off her high energy. It took almost two years to get her to realize some sembelance of training, and now she lives with my dad. Its still an ongoing process though.

Sometimes you have to think before you get so trigger happy. Its not fair to keep a dog penned up 24/7, and some people can't afford a fort knox fence, especially in this economy. If they are doing absolutly no harm to you, your animals, or your property, there is no need to shoot them. I haven't read the link you posted, but I'm pretty sure in most places I know of, if you did that you would loose in court.

 

[KattyKillFish]

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See, that's a little overboard. What if someone let their dog out to pee and it chased a squirrell and they couldn't run fast enought to catch it right off the bat. Or what if they were playing fetch and they through the ball to hard and it lost sight of it and went looking?

Its cruel to shoot any animal that is not doing damage to your animals, property, or well being. Some dogs can be very hard to train. I took in a stay that wondered up. She was a walker treeing coonhound that had been seriously abused and then thrown out. No telling how long she had been wondering around. If she got off her rope somehow, and it does happen to the best owners, things break, she would have ran all over the countryside for about five minutes, working off her high energy. It took almost two years to get her to realize some sembelance of training, and now she lives with my dad. Its still an ongoing process though.

Sometimes you have to think before you get so trigger happy. Its not fair to keep a dog penned up 24/7, and some people can't afford a fort knox fence, especially in this economy. If they are doing absolutly no harm to you, your animals, or your property, there is no need to shoot them. I haven't read the link you posted, but I'm pretty sure in most places I know of, if you did that you would loose in court.

if you read the link posted, you wouldn't be so upset. the links states just that. any animal that is annoying or harming other animals, domestic or wild, any fowl or game or other dogs can be legally shot. all the dogs in my neighborhood are repeated offenders. any strays are also legal to be shot, and it is encouraged in this state. the majority of dogs that come into my yard are strays, and i hare no extremely close neighbors (like in suburbs or somewhere similar with cookie cutter houses right next to each other) if a dog has a collar and isn't doing any harm i'll shoot into the air to scare it off or grab the harmless BB gun. also, I've never had a dog come into my yard that isn't interested in my chickens. not once. the Neighbors understand and haven't thrown any fits. in fact, none of my actual neighbors have lost any dogs by my hands. there is a strict chain and leash law in my town. any dog running loose without an owner who is easily identifiable or not present can be shot legally. there is an article in there that defines a stray dog along with mad dogs and habitually aggressive/annoying dogs. strays are my problem here.

i don't want to start an argument. lets keep this on topic and focused on the pit bull. i really should have only posted the link and said little about my opinions on dogs. i'll edit that now to prevent further problems.

 

[Smartie_Pants]

if you read the link posted, you wouldn't be so upset. the links states just that. any animal that is annoying or harming other animals, domestic or wild, any fowl or game or other dogs can be legally shot. all the dogs in my neighborhood are repeated offenders. any strays are also legal to be shot, and it is encouraged in this state. the majority of dogs that come into my yard are strays, and i hare no extremely close neighbors (like in suburbs or somewhere similar with cookie cutter houses right next to each other) if a dog has a collar and isn't doing any harm i'll shoot into the air to scare it off or grab the harmless BB gun. also, I've never had a dog come into my yard that isn't interested in my chickens. not once. the Neighbors understand and haven't thrown any fits. in fact, none of my actual neighbors have lost any dogs by my hands. there is a strict chain and leash law in my town. any dog running loose without an owner who is easily identifiable or not present can be shot legally. there is an article in there that defines a stray dog along with mad dogs and habitually aggressive/annoying dogs. strays are my problem here.

i don't want to start an argument. lets keep this on topic and focused on the pit bull. i really should have only posted the link and said little about my opinions on dogs. i'll edit that now to prevent further problems.

I'm sorry, you don't have to edit. It's just that the way it read I took it to mean that you just shot any dog whatsoever. I do understand repeated strays that are after you animals. I tend to get a little heated about it because for 14 years I had a neighbor that would set at her window and watch for something to step onto her property. Birds, dogs, cats, squirrels, heck she would watch the ground for a mole to start digging across and run out and go kill it. It was traumatising to say the least. That's kinda what I imagined when I read that.​

 

[speckledhen]

Its not fair to keep a dog penned up 24/7, and some people can't afford a fort knox fence, especially in this economy

I completely disagree with you. EVERY dog should be penned on the owner's property, period. The breed does not matter. If the economy is so hard on someone that they cannot properly contain the dog, then they should not get a dog because obviously, they cannot afford it. No exceptions. Fencing is not that expensive; a dog run is not that expensive.

Domesticated dogs are not wild animals that need to run free. If a dog is attacking my chickens, I do not care one whit that it is someone's pet who got out one time. I will remove the threat to my birds, one way or another, before one is killed, hopefully.

And someone's dog killing someone's birds is a heck of a way for a new neighbor to move into a neighborhood. Doesn't make a great impression. I cannot make someone contain their dogs; I can only deal with them when they enter my property. And there is usually no time to assess why the dog is there.​

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Thank goodness I live in a part of the world where people use good sense and not have such automatic negative attitudes towards others, especially newbies to the neighborhood.

I still say handle it in an adult and friendly way. After all you will have to live with these folks for a while....who would want to have 'tiff's' with their neighbors at all times over something like this? Birds can be replaced and the most important thing is for everyone to try and get along and make ammends.

I have had dogs that were part of the hunting club come over here and kill some of my birds....I did not shoot the dogs the FIRST time it happend. We delt with it with an adult attitude and the people were sorry and they offered to replace the birds....however, we didn't even make them do that. We just asked they keep their dogs under control and they have so far since......If I shot every dog that wandered in my yard, no one would have dogs around here....we live miles out in the country and no one contains their dogs unless they are a threat.

Just because a dog gets out and kills something on someone elses property DOES NOT always mean the owners are irresponsible and you should kill their animals on sight. SMART people are aware of this and will make an effort to to let the dog owner contain its animals. I think you should try and obtain a good relationship with your new neighbors so that you guys may help each other out over the years....Thank the lord I have good folks in my area and we don't all like contraversy and want to fight it out and kill each others things....These are animals not people and chickens can be easily replaced IMO


Use your head and heart to make decisions and you will find that you will have better relationships with folks that way and not make years worth of enemies....especially of your neighbors....after all you said they seemed genuinly sorry for what happend.

JMHO