Advice needed:
The lot next to our house was bought after being empty 50 years. The builder is actually kind of a jerk of a man, so this is already starting bad.
My girls have free ranged in our back yard from day one. They have a small coop because they free range from sun up to down. They spend no day time in there.
Here is the problem, although they are still building, someone has decided to bring their dog over during the day. That fog has ripped at out fence and dug holes trying viciously to get into our property at the girls and even at my dog.
I do not believe in violence to animals of any kind, but another neighbor saw this and said... The minute it gets into your property... Shoot it.
What !?!? Wait. We are the only people in our neighborhood that do not own any guns. Even then, is that how people around here handle this sort if thing?
I would certainly want justice for my girls as they are not livestock to me, they are my pets. My flock is small, 7, they have names. Come when called. Sit with me while I read. It would be equivalent to losing our cat or our own dog if this dog came over and hurt them.
Our entire property is fenced in. We have never had trouble with any other wild life in our back yard. To include fox, raccoons, skunk, hawks etc. I do not think it is fair to lock the girls up in their tiny coop because by the looks of it, they neighbor can't contain his dog or won't. I don't know the difference. But I am so nervous they may be in future danger.
My stomach aches just thinking about this.
What have you done?
Or what would you do?