Trapped a Neighbor's Dog on My Deck....Got an Earful

[speckledhen]

The sheriff's office is not wanting to allow us to file a report. I think it's because they hear this dog complaint stuff so much, they are numb to it. I told DH it is our right to do so, period, but I don't think he's going to push it. If there is another threat made, however, I am going to insist on it.

 

[BWKatz]

I have been following this thread very closely and waiting to see what the neighbor had to say. Very disappointed in him. If he cared as much for his dog as he professes, this wouldn't have happened in the first place. All the comments of what to do to the dog only emphasizes why I keep my cats inside. Speckled Hen I hope this is the end of it but just in case....FILE THAT REPORT!

 

[lynxs1981]

Yea, I've had to do the "Oh, I guess your dog wandered off" story a few times myself. I am an animal lover and it really bugs me when I have to kill one because of irresponsible owners.

 

[Boyd]

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Trust me, I could send slappy the squirrel down your direction.. Armegeddon didn't come as soon as I thought and I am still building up my base of Minions.. and Slappy is one durn mean nutty fellar!!

I sick slappy on the neighbors, your sheriff's dept will hop right to it!

 

[joebryant]

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With that, I'd have my gun ready to blow the dog away.

 

[Cetawin]

LMAO Boyd...well I got your minion's back...my boys are already to deploy

They have an armor division too

Cyn, you know I am not a SSS type, I take the body back to the owner and tell them what I did, why I did it and how sorry I am but....

in this case, the guy has made his ridiculous position all too clear and I now see where the son gets his mentality and kohonas....dig the hole now, when the dog comes back shoot it and just bury it. This is an SSS situation. You cannot reason with moronic thinking like that, protect yourselves and your birds and dispatch the dog.

 

[wpalmisano]

There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. You need to think it through, my dogs are important to me and I would take serious offense if someone harmed them. I don't let them roam, but once in a while they do escape. Never got farther than my neighbor's. I love my dogs deeply. They are part of my family. Killing a man's dog is serious offense, and I would be looking to pay you back. I'm not playing either, its funny to say throw a rock or shoot it, but if someone hurt my dogs on purpose I'd be coming for him. I know everyone on the internet is a tough guy, but there are real bad people out here.
I say you get yourself a pellet gun, or a BB gun, and shoot him in the ass a few times. He'll get the idea and no permanent harm done. It's also somewhat satisfying. You could live trap it and call animal control. He'll have to pay to get it back, and he'll be ticked off. It also makes a record of problems. You can even hit him in the head with a shovel, but if you were to kill a dog, in almost every state, even with your car, you have to report it. Then, if you shot it, you're gonna have big time problems with cops, if you poisoned it or trapped it, your gonna have big time issues with the government agency that handles fish and game. Around here you would be a pariah for killing a pet dog, you would have serious legal issues that will cost a fortune, and you'll have to deal with the owner. Not only that but the rest of us backyard farmers will be labeled dog killers. Not good for business. Just my humble opinion.
If all else fails, or if you feel the dog is taking food off your family's table, or believe it to be a threat, I'd shoot it too, but as a LAST resort, and very quietly.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

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WPamisano - read my above posts...Most people understand that their dog is their problem unless they let them become someone else's problems then that other person gets to chose how to dispatch it - AC, trapping, returning, killing - especially in the country.

There is no 'court' issues or suing in most country areas because there are LAWS that say I can shoot YOUR dog if it is on my property harrassing or has killed livestock. Shoot here I have the right to shoot any dog that is running at large as long as I call animal control and report that this dog is running loose and harassing my dogs and that can just be by crossing my yard and my dogs having a fit in the house.

I love my dogs they are my family but if my dog gets loose and bites a person, growls at a person in their yard, attacks and kills chickens even ONE time, I am not going to begrudge a person for shooting them. This is why I keep my dogs chained in a invisible fence when I am not home or indoors. If I am home they can be out in the invisible fence. However due to nieghbor dog issues and idiot neighbor next door I will be sticking a fence up in a month or so for privacy/property border purposes.

If I shot your dog after letting you know it growled at me or acted AT ALL aggressive to me or my animals in MY yard, and then you LET it return a 2nd time darn right its dead and i'll be SSS all the way. If you try to retaliate, go ahead. I would have the right of law on my side, and I am a sneaky evil person.

Sorry but your dog in my yard = my issue = resolved end of story. don't want your dog shot? easy - keep it confined or be right on its tail when it escapes.

 

[speckledhen]

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Well, well, well, seems we have no rights in your eyes, no recourse, no way to turn-just our own fault for owning those tasty, tempting chickens, huh?

In all of that, you never mentioned my flock. Where are they in all this dog-love? You are in a different area than I am, different laws. Shooting a dog with a BB or pellet gun can be considered cruelty to animals. On-the-spot euthanizing a dog who is killing my pets (my pets, did you hear that, pets, some of whom I have had longer than that dog has been alive) is completely within my legal rights. Did you look at our county ordinances at all? I will have no trouble with cops for doing so. My chickens are just as important to me as your dog, trust me. Sure, a dog might get out once in awhile, but it only takes once for my entire flock of birds, some of whom are considered endangered breeds, to be slaughtered. He's had the last warning he's going to get. He has already perpetrated a criminal act by threatening to bring a loaded shotgun onto my property.

 

[wpalmisano]

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WPamisano - read my above posts...Most people understand that their dog is their problem unless they let them become someone else's problems then that other person gets to chose how to dispatch it - AC, trapping, returning, killing - especially in the country.

There is no 'court' issues or suing in most country areas because there are LAWS that say I can shoot YOUR dog if it is on my property harrassing or has killed livestock. Shoot here I have the right to shoot any dog that is running at large as long as I call animal control and report that this dog is running loose and harassing my dogs and that can just be by crossing my yard and my dogs having a fit in the house.

I love my dogs they are my family but if my dog gets loose and bites a person, growls at a person in their yard, attacks and kills chickens even ONE time, I am not going to begrudge a person for shooting them. This is why I keep my dogs chained in a invisible fence when I am not home or indoors. If I am home they can be out in the invisible fence. However due to nieghbor dog issues and idiot neighbor next door I will be sticking a fence up in a month or so for privacy/property border purposes.

If I shot your dog after letting you know it growled at me or acted AT ALL aggressive to me or my animals in MY yard, and then you LET it return a 2nd time darn right its dead and i'll be SSS all the way. If you try to retaliate, go ahead. I would have the right of law on my side, and I am a sneaky evil person.

Sorry but your dog in my yard = my issue = resolved end of story. don't want your dog shot? easy - keep it confined or be right on its tail when it escapes.

Like I said, There are real, bad folks out here. You'd do what you thought was right, and I'd do the same. What is legal is not always moral, and what is moral is not always legal. Oh, and I grew up farming, and live in rural Connecticut. My address used to be Rural Route 2. My land quailifies as "country." Peace.