Not happy at all - what would you do?

[Ema]

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[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Dipsy Doodle Doo wrote:

Hi! If I knew there were 'strangers' coming around on a particular day to do tree-cutting (with whatever nonsense they might bring), I would have crated the in-heat dog IN the house just to be safe. In fact, I would be happy I had advance notice, so I could take precautions.

That's using common sense.

Lisa​

 

[Kelebek]

First of all - this is NOT in the backwoods - but in my front yard not 100 feet from my front porch - second - I just talked to my landlord and he was never asked and would not have allowed.

That is great that you are so kind to babies - but I didn't ask for criticizm - I was venting about inconsiderate people

 

[Kelebek]

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That's using common sense.

Lisa

SORRY - didn't think people would be so darn rude to bring their dogs to someone's house that they JUST came and did an estimate at not a week and a half ago and KNEW that there were ducks and chickens running loose and that there are dogs in a pen - REGARDLESS of in heat or not - I have animals RUNNING LOOSE on the property along with goats and calves that do not need to be terrorized by a loose dog running fence lines and barking - am I supposed to kennel them in my house also??

If I would have known that you would knit pick my post apart to turn it on me for someone being so disrespectful and rude to bring there dogs to run LOOSE on my farm - then I would have taken the time off - UNPAID to make sure that I was here - but didn't think that I needed to because I really thought people have common sense ...

AGAIN - this post was about the DISRESPECT of people - NOT to turn around and bash me - thanks alot ...... I really appriciate it


To the people that were nice - thank you ..... that is what forums are supposed to be about - to support others



We got home - all the birds are accounted for, thank goodness, and the goats and calf seem to be alright tonight - not near the fence lines - but alright! I will be staying home tomorrow to make sure it doesn't happen again tomorrow....... I will make them leave if they bring their dogs.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

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First of all, the company was 100% in the wrong. You have every right to vent. And to claim damages should your animals be traumatized by the event. But I have you ask...do you not have a guardian dog watching over your goats? I couldn't imagine anyone in our neck of the woods being without one, as coyotes as well as two-legged predators have no qualms about filching a goat right out of the yard in broad daylight, even if someone is home. I can tell you that any critter that comes on our property unleashed is pretty much a dead one, complements of the guardians. And all two-legged visitors must be formerly "introduced" ...or else be

for all they are worth should they make it in the field without one of us. Even the phone company calls when they are coming to trim along the power lines by the field, as one time when they "forgot" to call and no one was home, their workers didn't get a chance to get a single twig trimmed and almost didn't make it back to their truck. I'd say I was sorry...but there WAS a standing note in my file at their office at the time for them to CALL FIRST, and it went ignored that day. Have always gotten a call since, though, so it was a lesson learned for them. But yet my youngest child can do anything to a 140 pounds of muscle and teeth (Anatolian) that just lays there while he crawls all over it. They are so devoted to their helpless charges that they even let the ducklings walk all over them (and occasionally the ducklings literally crap on them!). It would be funny, but I am the one that ends up having to wash it off the dogs.

We also have a 10 pound JRT shorty house dog that thinks she's a pit bull, and actually went after a young pit mix stray through the fence one day. She climbed half way up the fence and split the poor things nose wide open. It took off crying and never did come back. But the children were outside playing in the yard at the time, and nothing, I mean nothing, bothers her family. Even if it's just to play. Oh, and she doesn't play well with strangers either.

 

[Kelebek]

I do not have an LGD - we have talked about it - but I was the one that said no at this time.

We have 10 foot game fencing - two pens - one being almost 3 areas (smaller fenced into a buck pen and a very large doe pen) then on the other side of the drive (literally splits the 2 pens) we have the "mastiff pen" that is another 2 acres or so. So far, we have never had an issue with predators - maybe a freerange chicken here or there - but that is to be expected - but never a goat. When it is not raining or snowing - the mastiffs our out all day when we are at work. Now, if the coyotes start to get to close or the one time that I heard the bobcat - we would run the mastiffs in the goat pens during the weekends when I am out in the barns and morning and night during the week when feeding and they leave immediately. We have turned the mastiffs (older 2 sisters are 1/2 Brazillian- Fila- mastiff, 1/4 English Mastiff, and 1/4 GP) and the two older girls will run the property (15 acres total of ours and then the properties next to us that are undeveloped) and then we don't hear from them on our mountain for quite sometime.

I just have to big of a heart and would feel bad leaving a dog outside while all the others get to come in - now when we move - I know that I will have to get an LGD because we won't have the 10 foot fencing - man am I going to miss it!


** They used to raise elk here **

 

[debilorrah]

I personally have an issue with a contractor that would come to your property and let their own dogs loose. I certainly would not want to clean up their poop. The dog in heat aside. They did not have permission to bring the dogs, and to let them loose is wrong. Would you bring your kids to work and let them do what they want? I didn't think so.

 

[Kelebek]

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Funny you should say that - I had a chiro appt on wednesday and my chiro shares an office with another gentleman and his wife is his secretary - she had her 2 and 4 year old running loose in the lobby screaming and yelling and jumping from one chair to the other then the 4 year old tossed her shoes and one zipped past me hitting my hair - TICKED me off - not so much at the kids as they obviously didn't know better, but the mom. I told my chiro's receptionist I would be outside. When my chiro came to get me (mind you I followed him from his previous location to this one - so been going to him for a long time) I was NOT happy. I told my chiro that I was not having it .... that I pay to come into the office and receive services from him - not get hit in the head with shoes from the other people that worked there. He agreed and said that he has been looking for another place as it is very unprofessional.

 

[ChickenRonin]

I completely agree with OP! I have 4 dogs and too many chickens (is that possible?) and I would be PEEVED to have someone come into my yard without clearing it with me, much less bring their pets into my yard. I have had neighbor kids try to climb the fence after seeing my baby chicks running loose and thinking they would make good playthings. I ran out one day because my dogs were raising a ruckus, and found a couple of kids perched on our 6ft. fence with their eyes so wide they looked like they would pop out lol. I guess they weren't expecting four dogs to come running and barking at intruders. After telling them it was a bad idea to go into ANYONE'S yard without asking, I went straight over to their parents and told them to watch their kids. I have a 6 year old niece whom I babysit often and my dogs love her, but anyone my dogs don't know will get an earfull if my husband or I are not present to introduce them - human or animal.
I have had a couple of dogs go into heat, and I usually keep them kenneled inside, but they are small (under 40 lbs.), and we live in town where there are alot of wanderers passing by. I have larger dogs and it would be very hard to keep them kenneled for more than a couple of hours. Not because they would break out, but because larger dogs would be more cramped. IMO they just don't make indoor kennels big enough for larger dogs to hang out comfortably for hours at a time.

 

[debilorrah]

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Funny you should say that - I had a chiro appt on wednesday and my chiro shares an office with another gentleman and his wife is his secretary - she had her 2 and 4 year old running loose in the lobby screaming and yelling and jumping from one chair to the other then the 4 year old tossed her shoes and one zipped past me hitting my hair - TICKED me off - not so much at the kids as they obviously didn't know better, but the mom. I told my chiro's receptionist I would be outside. When my chiro came to get me (mind you I followed him from his previous location to this one - so been going to him for a long time) I was NOT happy. I told my chiro that I was not having it .... that I pay to come into the office and receive services from him - not get hit in the head with shoes from the other people that worked there. He agreed and said that he has been looking for another place as it is very unprofessional.

That kind of atmosphere is ridiculous!!!