Stopping dog that visits during day

[blueferral]

Ah, thanks for the answer centrachid. When my neighbors dogs started killing off my hens, I told the wife I was getting out the .22 and doing a SSS. (didn't call it that, used some other choice words). My wife said, "No, way" She went all diplomatic with the neighbors. They put their dogs on a run and paid to replace the hens their dogs killed. I guess she is smarter than I am.

 

[centrarchid]

Ah, thanks for the answer centrachid. When my neighbors dogs started killing off my hens, I told the wife I was getting out the .22 and doing a SSS. (didn't call it that, used some other choice words). My wife said, "No, way" She went all diplomatic with the neighbors. They put their dogs on a run and paid to replace the hens their dogs killed. I guess she is smarter than I am.

Diplomatic route does work amoung neighbors that now each other well and value each other highly. I am new to this location and have already had two run ins with the unpleasant sort where SSS would have been better than diplomatic approach I attempted which enabled me to find out those households had issues that extended beyond a dog that liked munching on livestock. New dog; if owned by another party will be researched diplomatic route will be attempted again.

 

[blueferral]

Actually these neighbors were new to the neighborhood. The neighborhood being properties of 10 to 30 acres. With a few of the neighbors selling out to the developers before the crash. So we have 4 subdivisions with about 40 houses each on our road. The neighbors with the dogs had moved in for about a month when their dogs discovered the free range chickens.

We have a coop that they sleep in, surrounded by an old 10 x 30 dog kennel, top covered in chicken wire. Hot wire all around, pesky raccoons. We have a second 10x10 kennel next to the 10x30 for isolation/teenagers/what ever.

Back to the point. These were new neighbors and were willing to be polite. They are renting the house and 20 acres across the street from our property. They were quite pleasant with my wife and very upset about their dogs doing what dogs do. With you being the new neighbor that changes the situation. I would try the diplomacy thing. If that doesn't work, SSS. When they come asking ..."to be honest I haven't seen them for a while. I thought you had put em on a line or something."

 

[centrarchid]

I am the a new neighbor but not newest. Problems thus far involving dogs and me have been with those newer than I. A complicating issue is another neighbor with poultry that has been here a couple decades at least does practice SSS fairly often. It has been done frequently enough so those missing dogs can put string of clues together and figure out where dogs are when they go missing. I bugger things up by saying hey, I have poultry and your dogs are killing some. Killing needs to stop or I will do with dog as I please on its next visit to my poultry yard. I have done nothing thus far but already folks that lost dogs long before I came are attributing those losses to me. Much of the complexity seems more due to gossip mill than reality.

On whole, my benefit from dogs in neighborhood because otherwise varmints would be much more frequent visitors otherwise. Over time my own dogs will become more capable of keeping losses down but some losses will still occur from time to time and I will have to be somewhat tolerant.

 

[ReikiStar]

Is the area such that you could put up hot wire fencing to keep the dog out? Nothing says I "love my livestock" than the sound of a dog who has just touched a hot wire fence....music to our ears!

 

[centrarchid]

Is the area such that you could put up hot wire fencing to keep the dog out? Nothing says I "love my livestock" than the sound of a dog who has just touched a hot wire fence....music to our ears!

With time that will be used to confine sheep and goats. Will not stop handily my biggest foe, Mr. Fox, and such fencing will interfere with my dogs ability to push Mr. Fox away from free-ranging flocks. Fox is bigger issue than dogs.