No way I'd tolerate animals like that, but absolutely check your state laws first.
Washington (my county?) has some unusual rules; if I have notified the Sheriff's dept there is an animal molesting my livestock or pets, I'm allowed to shoot it, but NOT with a 22cal. ? I have to shoot to kill or I can shoot it with pepper shot or rock salt, but who has that on hand most the time?! However, if the Sheriff hasn't been alerted, then I'M in trouble...
I LOVE the paint ball idea (especially frozen!) for animals that are a real threat and I would absolutely expect at LEAST that if my OWN dogs were behaving badly.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
I live outside the city on several acres and my dogs run. They run coyotes and coons off my property! They visit the locals and the local dogs visit in my yard, play, then go home. If they cause any problem whatsoever, the neighbors know they can come to us. The older fella above me loves that my dogs come up and kill pack rats in his wood pile.
And my dogs come in early every night. If I leave the yard, they're locked up or with me. Like I can get out of the yard without them in the truck!
Then last summer, a visiting bunch of yuppie punks camping down the way were riding up and down the road on a quad for NINE STRAIGHT HOURS. They couldn't get the gears figured out so it was like listening to a leaf blower all day. When they started early the next morning, DH asked them to take it into the orchards or up the back roads because it was really annoying.
Few days after, Sheriff's dept rolled into the yard and said there was a complaint that my dogs had "gone after" someones little dog at midnight the night before. I told him that was not true, my dogs were both in the house before 6pm, and they've never "gone after" any dog. He said it didn't matter, couldn't/wouldn't tell me the name of the complaintant so I could talk to them or make sure their dog was okay, but my dogs would be considered "dangerous" if there was ever any other report. I told him again that they were in the house (on my BED!) long before midnight, and he pretty much said my word did not matter.
Sorry about the tangent, but my point is, the laws can be very strange, so make sure not only that they are on report with animal control, but also with the necessary authorities before you shoot.
Remember also: Gun control means being able to hit what you're aiming at!
Good luck with this! It would make me want to shoot the owners with a little bird shot along with the dogs. And I love both SSS and the relocation thing!
Washington (my county?) has some unusual rules; if I have notified the Sheriff's dept there is an animal molesting my livestock or pets, I'm allowed to shoot it, but NOT with a 22cal. ? I have to shoot to kill or I can shoot it with pepper shot or rock salt, but who has that on hand most the time?! However, if the Sheriff hasn't been alerted, then I'M in trouble...

I LOVE the paint ball idea (especially frozen!) for animals that are a real threat and I would absolutely expect at LEAST that if my OWN dogs were behaving badly.
ON THE OTHER HAND...
I live outside the city on several acres and my dogs run. They run coyotes and coons off my property! They visit the locals and the local dogs visit in my yard, play, then go home. If they cause any problem whatsoever, the neighbors know they can come to us. The older fella above me loves that my dogs come up and kill pack rats in his wood pile.
And my dogs come in early every night. If I leave the yard, they're locked up or with me. Like I can get out of the yard without them in the truck!
Then last summer, a visiting bunch of yuppie punks camping down the way were riding up and down the road on a quad for NINE STRAIGHT HOURS. They couldn't get the gears figured out so it was like listening to a leaf blower all day. When they started early the next morning, DH asked them to take it into the orchards or up the back roads because it was really annoying.
Few days after, Sheriff's dept rolled into the yard and said there was a complaint that my dogs had "gone after" someones little dog at midnight the night before. I told him that was not true, my dogs were both in the house before 6pm, and they've never "gone after" any dog. He said it didn't matter, couldn't/wouldn't tell me the name of the complaintant so I could talk to them or make sure their dog was okay, but my dogs would be considered "dangerous" if there was ever any other report. I told him again that they were in the house (on my BED!) long before midnight, and he pretty much said my word did not matter.
Sorry about the tangent, but my point is, the laws can be very strange, so make sure not only that they are on report with animal control, but also with the necessary authorities before you shoot.
Remember also: Gun control means being able to hit what you're aiming at!

Good luck with this! It would make me want to shoot the owners with a little bird shot along with the dogs. And I love both SSS and the relocation thing!