Problem with Neighbors Dog

[Buff Hooligans]

If the most important issue is the safety of your chickens, make a big sturdy run for them.

 

[darkmatter]

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A little off the original thread topic, but I too had a problem with neighbors running their ATVs and dirt bikes on my property, tearing up my plantings and causing ruts/erosion. Being as these neighbors (gone now) were always in trouble with the law it did no good to talk to them and anything overt would result in probable vandalism if not worse. I had a solution--------having fixed enough tractor tires that had gotten locust thorns in them-----*Idea*----I used a machete to shave off a bucket full of locust thorn clusters and scattered them in the grass where they had been trespassing. They work like calthrops, even white-trash morons learn its unprofitable to repair tires every time they trespassed in certain areas of the woods. In less then a week they had stopped trespassing and I noticed their noisy playthings spent weeks sitting before being repaired. Unlike something such as a board with nails in it being manmade, the locust thorns were a natural hazard that the trees must of dropped.

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[Buck Creek Chickens]

where can I get some of those thorns, my locust trees don't have them

 

[drdoolittle]

I've actually trapped a neighbor's cat (with a hav-a-hart trap) that kept coming on my property, and re-homed it. Not saying this is what you should do---just what I did. I like the ex-lax brownies for the owners!

 

[purr]

this will work , I swear it! Take the dog put it in your car and bring it to the pound.When the owners have to pay good hard earned cash to get it out ,they will get the idea that its cheaper to tie the dog up
I have done this it works every time!

 

[purr]

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yup what she said

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Dr Doolittle did say "FOR THE OWNERS"

 

[purr]

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A sawzall would take care of it...

handiest tool know to man!

 

[pinkyglory123]

We had a problem with a neighbors dog which we drove up on in the process of slaughtering our chickens. We tracked the dog to it's home and confronted the owner. The altercation did turn ugly briefly after the dog's owner offered us .30 cents a bird claiming "he had been to auctions" and knew what they were worth. Eventually the owner calmed down and realized it was in his best interest to reimburse us fairly and swore his dog would never be on our property again. And it has not. I did not threaten but I promised that if it did I would file a complaint with animal control.
I also put up an electric fence along our border. When a dog or cat approaches his usual access point and calmly investigates this new barrier-they get a decent jolt and avoid it like the plaugue. The electric fence around the coop did not deter the dog when he was in the frenzy of killing chickens or the chickens in their panic were not able to get behind the barrier. Right now things are calm-for now five problematic coons have been trapped and the dog not seen again. It is a constant battle though. But electric fence is relatively cheap and easy to set up-I get my fencers on ebay.

 

[Rammy]

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When I have the fence people come out, if they dont move it, I'll have it moved for them. Its very, very heavy and I cant move it myself. I only weigh about 100 pounds and thier son, who is about 180 and a linebacker on his high school football team, even has trouble moving it. It takes two to three people. I called the fence people today and am waiting for thier return call to arrange for them to come out and give me an estimate for moving that one section of fence.

Rammy