We live at the corner of a private road and public road, in the boonies. First let me say all the neighbors along are private road are great and take good care of their animals. Some neighbors along the public road seem to think it's fine to let their dogs loose `cause it's the country. We've had run-ins with one neighbors dogs a couple of times. One of our hens was killed by a dog I suspect was theirs. (Our other neighbors saw it loose around the same time, but we didn't see it happen so I'm not sure.)
Every time there is a problem, they have a hard time believing it could have been their dog, but promise to keep it penned up. Even when we saw their dog take a bite of butt fluff from our top hen and chased it all the way home again- it was "Are you sure it was this dog? He's just right here." -Duh, we just chased him all the way back here you jerks!
I knew it was going to take losing a dog for him to care about keeping them penned up. I just knew someone would eventually hit one with a car or shoot one for chasing livestock (and I wouldn't blame them for shooting it). Unfortunately it was MUCH worse than I thought. Someone left out anti-freeze. At that point he did the responsible thing and kept his remaining dogs penned up (for a while) and told the neighbors about it- warning them to keep their pets home. I really scares me to think that one of our neighbors is such a sicko to kill an animal in such an inhumane way.
I guess the dog owner know longer cares. As we were riding our bikes home, his 2 remaining dogs were loose and threatening. One of them grabbed my rear tire! I am beyond livid. He KNOWS there is a sick @#$3^ in the area willing to poison his dogs and STILL he lets them run loose.
Every time there is a problem, they have a hard time believing it could have been their dog, but promise to keep it penned up. Even when we saw their dog take a bite of butt fluff from our top hen and chased it all the way home again- it was "Are you sure it was this dog? He's just right here." -Duh, we just chased him all the way back here you jerks!
I knew it was going to take losing a dog for him to care about keeping them penned up. I just knew someone would eventually hit one with a car or shoot one for chasing livestock (and I wouldn't blame them for shooting it). Unfortunately it was MUCH worse than I thought. Someone left out anti-freeze. At that point he did the responsible thing and kept his remaining dogs penned up (for a while) and told the neighbors about it- warning them to keep their pets home. I really scares me to think that one of our neighbors is such a sicko to kill an animal in such an inhumane way.
I guess the dog owner know longer cares. As we were riding our bikes home, his 2 remaining dogs were loose and threatening. One of them grabbed my rear tire! I am beyond livid. He KNOWS there is a sick @#$3^ in the area willing to poison his dogs and STILL he lets them run loose.