Newbie from Ky has to vent about neighbor,his dog, and dead chicken

[SOchick]

If you do wind up taking any of the dogs/pups to Animal Control, make sure they know the dogs have attacked/killed your chickens. Around here, if a dog kills another animal, the owner is charged with having a vicious animal, and the dog can be declared various levels of dangerous, meaning the owner MUST keep the animal contained in very specific fenced enclosures or inside, and can only walk the dog with a muzzel, etc. and is sublect to inspection. Also, the owner will be charged to reclaim the animal from the shelter. Good Luck!

 

[citrusdreams]

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Well, I have to very repectfully disagree with you. I have the thinking, "love me, love my dog" in a big way. That doesn't mean my neighbors must love to be subjected to my dogs running all over the county. That means I love them enough to keep them save by going above and beyond to keep them within our own property. I would be horrified to learn that my dogs got loose and hurt someone else by attacking their livestock or pets. I get horrified enough at the thought of them merely getting out at all. People who let their dogs roam the countryside harassing their neighbors do not love their dogs. People who love their dogs would not endanger them that way. "Love me, love my dog" (to me) means that people have to understand how important my dogs are in my life and know that if people are involved in my life, that will include my dogs. That doesn't mean that I walk all over my neighbors by violating their rights and destroying their property.

Like you, I have neighbors that think it's perfectly fine to allow their dogs to roam the countryside. And in fact, they think it's a given, is expected and think I'm unreasonable. I'll go a step further and say they think I'm absolutely unreasonable to be so diligent about keeping my own dogs on my own property. And like you, I was given a .22 rifle for my birthday recently

The thought of shooting someone's dog because the owners don't care enough about them disgusts me. But that's what will happen after about a year of asking, begging and demanding.

Hopefully your neighbor gets the point now, so that you won't have problems anymore.

 

[panner123]

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Thank you and Amen. If you kill the dog (predator) the owner still pays for your dead chicken. If you just wound the dog, you pay the vet bill and the dog owner pays for the chicken.
Guess who comes out on top.

If any have read some of my past posts, they know that I will shoot a dog right in front of the owner. And then hope he has something stupid to say.

It is not really the dog fault, but the owners. I never like killing a dog, but at times it is a must.
When they mess with my critters, it is a must.

 

[mikeksfarmer]

All ordanices aside. You have the right to raise poultry on your property. The dog owner is in violation of your rights and responsable for damage, most espeshaly when it occurs on your property. Document all your actions, with this neighbor. If they just started to let them run, that means they see living in the country as a place to let their dogs run. Running dogs kill chickens. Chickens are why we invented the squeeky toy. $20 dollars may pay to replace a chicken or duck but in my book there is still a huge loss. And with the advent of disease going to an auction or swap meet and replacing with a new bird may bring home a disease that whipes out many others. It happened to a local friend. I am lucky I communicated with my two neighbors about their dogs running. One wont talk to me any more. He locked his dogs in a tiny run 4 labs and all the neighbors feel sorry for them. After 3 years there all now dead. The other killed one of his dogs, and chained the other. Its often tangled in the lawn furnichure. But they both contained or controled thier dogs. At this time I will shoot any stray dog on my property no questions asked. I have found that it is a constant battle to keep poultry. Raccoons, dogs, foxes oh my! I have a great turkey vulture feeding station in my back pasture! My advise, dont miss any oppurtunity to remove a chicken preditor from your property.

 

[cphilip]

Not really on topic but an interesting tid bit I will relate in case you find it amusing...

Many Counties and even states have a single exception for an animal trespassing on ones property and that is a very old law pertaining to a Hunting Dog in pursuit of game. If the Dog is in the act of hunting (chasing a coon for example) he cannot be, by law, trespassing and therefore you would have no right to shoot him for such.

Of course once he attacks and does damage that law then falls by the wayside and he/she is no longer in "pursuit of game" and no longer hunting.

I served on a Jury where this law came into play in the Upstate of SC some years back. The Coon Dog was found to be, in fact, hunting and had done no damage but was shot anyway. The owner of the dog had a tracking collar on him. The land owner claimed he came at him so he shot him. The dog was found shot in the side. It was established by evidence that the dog would, come to a person to try and get them to follow him to where the coon was cornered. Which happened to be under an old house used as a Barn. The howling Coon dog had attracted the attention of the property owner who decided the Dog was up to no good and possibly attacking his horses. When the dog came out from under the old house, he shot him....

The Dogs owner was awarded $5000 for that dog...

reminder, this has nothing to do with shooting a chicken killer. I have shot them too.