Stupid dog!

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Bait him in.
Give him a hot dog with a lot of sleeping pills in it, send him home.

Or keep him around your home afterwards, and bury him at night.

When it comes to the safety of my family, I am ruthless. When it comes to my girls, im fierce but not ruthless.
Kill him, and protect your young children.
 
He's very friendly, and vaccinated....but he's just left to run loose, which is the issue. He's not mean in any way, but I know he'd kill my chickens as he is an untrained dog. We have been taking photos of him each time he's on our property, to document it.....and will call animal control if the neighbour does not agree to start tying him up.

We have a fence around our backyard....so he can't get near my outdoor run or my kids or dog if they are in there. However, our chickens obviously don't stay within the boundaries of that fence when they range....they prefer to be off in the trees scratching around at the bed of leaves, or out front on our hill. The only way I could maybe contain them is to line the bottom of the fence with chicken wire...but even then, if someone is feeling very determined...they could just fly over the fence. Their prime dust bathing spot is in our yard too, not in their run....which is really unfortunate. If they neighbour would just tie his dog up, our problems would be solved!
 
Animal control is the way to go here. We live on more than double that acreage out in the country and yet we still get neighboring dogs here. A chat with the neighbor normally solves that. if it does not, and in once case it hadn't, then a call to animal control is in order. Not only are your chickens at danger but that dog is not being properly cared for either. Said neighbor can not effectively keep watch over a dog that is not in his sight to begin with. It is a shame.

I mean, hey, I too am a dog owner but one needs be responsible to be a pet owner. Same goes for our chickens. We keep 'em on our own property or lock 'em up if need be.
 
I fence isn’t an option, simply due to our lot. I’m also not putting a fence up because of someone else’s dog....unless they want to pay for it! I think my husband will talk to him and see....and if that doesn’t work, I suppose we will have to call animal control. It’s hard because there are only 4 houses on our little dead end road, and everyone tries to help everyone else out....but then something like this happens and things could get REALLY awkward which is unfortunate.
 
I did this once many years ago. It worked for me, hope it helps.

Warn your neighbor that you have a huge amount of grapes and raisins (homemade wine) that you will be tossing around for your chickens to enjoy on your property. Helps if you buy the cheapest wine available, repackage in a soda bottle or such, and offer as a token...

If that doesn't register, call animal control and explain how you did not want to be responsible for your neighbor's dogs health or death... could they intervene?
 
Erin80 said:
I fence isn’t an option, simply due to our lot. I’m also not putting a fence up because of someone else’s dog....unless they want to pay for it! I think my husband will talk to him and see....and if that doesn’t work, I suppose we will have to call animal control. It’s hard because there are only 4 houses on our little dead end road, and everyone tries to help everyone else out....but then something like this happens and things could get REALLY awkward which is unfortunate.
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Good Luck. Sounds like you have already talked to him, if you already know he doesn't like to tie up his dog. Also, sounds like you've expressed your general frustrations to the owner (in our yard, jumps on kids, whatever you've said). Overall, I would say that the advice of keeping a photo log of the dog on your yard, and a log of calls to animal control are good ideas. In the event that the situation gets worse (more trespassing, or aggression, or extra dog poop in your yard, etc) then you will have a log of how long the issue has been going on, what action you have taken, etc. The owner has no interest in taking any real responsibility and without intervention of some kind (animal control or cops) he is unlikely to do so. Maybe I'm wrong and it will work out when the men have a discussion. If not, I would keep up the log and calls and maybe add a real hot wire to that fence (But, why should you have to spend money and time to control someone else's pet?).

I've had a neighbor problem before, and I started to keep a log of the issues and a photo journal of a particular issue in the event that the neighbor escalated their activity and/or accused us of something that was not true. As it turned out, I did have to call the cops on them (something I should have done when the issues began), and was thankful to have my photo journal and log of issues. We moved away, so the issue resolved in that manner. Neighbors can really suck sometimes, and you don't want to have a negative relationship if you can help it, so good luck to you.
 
Seems like an electric fence would save you more time than the personal effort you would put out for animal control solution. Doesnt the same go in reverse for your chickens getting onto their lot? I mean 2 acres is a lot, but is it possible?
Ive seen many posts about the same topic with Howards electric fence idea and also the animal control solution.
Some people have had great success with trapping the dog on their property, I think you can even get the trap from Animal Control, then calling the Animal Control Officer to come pick the dog up. Time and time again, if your animal control will engage.
The offender usually gets tired of bailing the dog out of the pound, and the fines go up the longer the problem subsists.
 

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