off-leash dogs - ways to manage the neighbors?

[Buster52]

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Not to mention it indicates a lack of backbone.

Please don't bash everyone who has done this - I live out in the woods and the fact that it was a dog I had never seen before I was not going to go out of my way to try to find an owner. If it had a collar on I would have contacted the owner

Guess I wasn't talking about you, then.

 

[horsejody]

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Most of the dogs that end up shot belong to people that have been warned. Why is it cowardly to shoot a dog that has an owner that cares so lttle about it? Most owners of chicken killing dogs are in denial and they continue to let the dog roam. It's idiotic to think that the life of the dog is more important than the life of any other animal.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Uhm, you must be reading wrong. I never said it is cowardly to shoot a dog on your property? I have shot 2.....I am saying I am not scared at all to INFORM someone of what you have done due to their own animals actions.


People get off your attack mode.......And fyi my dogs are at the bottom of the list. My chickens lives are much more important to me than the dogs, for sure. BUT I live where I live and it is NORMAL to keep dogs the way we do.....No need to belittle others for their ways of life...if you don't like it - stay where you are!

OR MAYBE we all out here are a bunch of idiots!! IT IS GREAT TO LIVE HERE AND BE AN IDIOT! I have the best life- really, It couldn't get any better - so do my critters

Please no one else quote me. I am tired of defending our ways of life out here. I will not try to enlighten folks on their childish name calling of others when they may not know the exact situations......I guess you can't make folks learn to reason......And please fully read and understand before quoting someone -

 

[horsejody]

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That sounds like what my neighbors tried telling the judge in court after their dogs decimated my flock. They also killed another dog and injured 2 others. If your dog is out of sight, you really don't know if they are making trouble. Just look at what happened to Ed H. in Oregon because people let their "nice" dogs roam. Sorry, neighbors around here get a warning, and if they don't care enough to keep the dog in their own yard, it's bye bye doggie. Letting your dogs run on the 100's of surronding acres is fine if you own all those acres, but I would never assume that it was OK to run my dogs on somebody else's.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

Well we do own most of it and my in laws.

First I would never be in court. If my dogs did something I would do whatever the other party wanted to make it right and that is the way I was treated when my chickens were killed by a hunting dog a year or so ago......

My neighbors called up a week ago and asked if our dog could ride in the wagon with them. LIKE I said, all of us and our animals where I live are in harmony!!!!! I SAID THIS BEFORE - If we have a troublemaker then we all discuss and decide what to do...

Look, I am so done. That is the way it is here. Plain and simple and if no one likes or agrees then they don't have to move out here to this wonderful place! My only point is people judging and acting childish and name calling when they don't know the situations where others may live...that is ridiculous...I would never....but, then I am a very reasonable, nice person.

I am NOT even going to read over this thread again due to folks trying to argue with our ways of life and sending this thread down a different path. Good Bye

AND EVERYONES PIGS FREE ROAM TOO - Bummer to live here....

 

[highcountrychickens]

I provided my neighbors who have bothersome dogs with a list of the state statutes addressing dogs and livestock, including the course of action that remains very strongly within my right as a livestock owner. I left it to them to assume whether or not that course of action was or was not something I would take.

I haven't had a problem since, and we all get along beautifully... they just needed a bit of education - which, if I had problems with loose dogs after providing that information, I would not have problem one with disposing a dog that killed or was chasing my chickens.
If the dog was loose and not killing chickens, I'd catch it, and have Animal Control pick it up so the owners could enjoy a bit of checkbook therapy.

 

[speckledhen]

If you have only quarter acre lots, you have leash laws. Call Animal Control and call them again and again and again, every time you see a dog off a leash. This is not really a SSS discussion, not in a neighborhood where the houses are that close together. Now, a baseball bat may come in handy if the dogs are chasing chickens on property where they do not belong.

I had much more to say, but I'll refrain.

Let's try to stay on the subject and offer real solutions.

 

[Big Chicken Little]

Think electric ..my neighbors hound has not been around since the fence bit him good, I use 6,000 volts and hace a top wire just in case of a climber jumper.

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

I havn't read the other replys ...but i just wanted to let you know something that I tell my neighbours to do for my one Dogs sake.....We live in the country but I have one neighbour home that is pretty close ...they have a beautiful new home with beautiful landscaped property they also have an outside dog that is trained on an invisible fence ....Our Golden Retriever has been trained with the invisible fence also since he was young ....we got our Black Lab female whenshe was 6 ...our breeders retired female ....she is so layed back...doesnt move fast .she's not intersted in hurting any animal because she was such a good mom she wants to lick and clean everything......doesnt do anything a typical black lab would normally do....fetching a ball is beneath her....she has had three C sections and then spayed....so she waddles....she hates water ...rain...the lake ...our pond....I dont have the heart to train her on the invisible fence because she's such a loveable dog and has eyes that will make you melt......she normally doesnt wander to far from her bed...but when she has gone over to the neighbours I have asked them to spray her with the water hose....YIKES !! she dislikes water....and will run back home ...It works ...My neighbours feel bad doing it but its for her sake....meanwhile when I spray my Retriever its "MORE ! do it again !"
Edit to say...i cannot remember the last time she came home wet?...maybe once the snow melted ....

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I'd either invest in "electro net" fencing, not let my birds out or get a paintball gun and shoot the dogs when they come on your property, LOL