My land is strung with electric low impudence fence. I have horses and goats also. I even run electric fence for the dogs. Unfortunately, the fences also have gates, which they know how to open. Sunday night someone came onto the property and dropped the horse gates and let the horses loose. Last year someone let the dogs loose, even the ones in my house. The year before that they let the horses loose.
All this stuff happens when I am at work. I am working on finding a camera, but it would have to be more than one.
We don't have town cops, we have state and county. 2 county cops for 1/2 of the county. 1 trooper for an entire section, sometimes. There is no one who can give extra patrols. The town Animal control guy is also a constable, so he does watch for me, but he works the same hours I do!
I have no one to watch, because all the neighbors are in this together or they are in the wrong position to be able to see.
These people have been warned by the town, the state, the ACO/Constable to stop the false reports/claims or they will be charged criminally. That's why all the sneak attacks.
I have to padlock the dogs kennel gates, so i started padlocking the chicken pen gates too. Unfortunately, if they really want to get in, all they have to do is tear off the top and climb over, or remove the chain link from the frame.
I had a Hav a Hart trap out to catch the cats, but I ended up catching things I really didn't want to mess with. I'm not sure who owns the cat, it was big and solid black. There are 3 of them in the immediate neighborhood. Actually 4, I own a solid black cat too. She never goes outside. The Roo was to keep the hens safe, plus I was going to raise chicks. I bought an incubator, but hadn't gotten around to setting the eggs yet. I was waiting for the brooder to be free.
I don't think they were really bothered by the roo crowing because you can barely hear him from my front yard. I have the chicken area in a dip in my back yard, just under my bedroom window. The pens are surrounded by tall weedy plants. Then, surrounding those are pine trees, berry bushes, huge areas of wild sunflowers, my house, the goat barn/dog kennel. Then the horse barn. Lilac trees, Maple trees, Rhododendron bushes, big round bales of hay...etc.
Picture a near perfect square. In the center of this square is the house, garage (goat and dog home) and horse barn. Behind and below the house is the chicken area. Thick vegetation surrounds the entire property on all 4 sides. Then, the area running to the east of the house has Lilac trees, huge Forsythia bushes, tall, thick old rose bushes and pine/elm trees which meet the section running north/south. The same for the area from the garage running west to the north/south boundary. Its like a square within a square, within a square with the chicken area in the middle of the 3 sets of squares. All the vegetation and buildings insulate the sounds from my back yard. The only clear area is a 4 foot section between the house and garage (goat barn/dog kennel), however, there is actually only a small walk way between the 2 buildings because I have tall, thick day lilies, wild sunflowers and Jewel weed growing along the foundation on both buildings!
I think they are just using the roo are a reason to complain. I can't prove who did it. I wish I could.
