Washingtonians

[Illia]

My area is considered rural?

I thought rural was agricultural or something. . .


I guess I just don't report things around here. And, our Humane Society is 75 miles away. . . And anything else truly local just isn't all that animal rights-friendly.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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For us, Edmonds is considered rural.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I am snow bound. Its been blizzard conditions all day long. I work for the State of Kansas and they closed all office today and tomorrow.

 

[Illia]

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For us, Edmonds is considered rural.

I know, it is hilarious what the Puget Sound area considers rural or small or a "town."

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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In Washington is it legal to shoot dogs messing with your livestock?

 

[Illia]

I would guess. . . . A neighbor of mine's dog just got shot a month ago because it was in the property of a man who owned two Hereford heifers. The dog was a lab. The heifers were already pretty huge.


. . . Wow, I do live in a backwoods town of a lot of weird people.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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In Washington is it legal to shoot dogs messing with your livestock?

Yes but there is a BUT. You potentially would need to prove that the dog/perpetrator was about to or actually physically harming your livelihood. Of course, if you live in the back woods like Illia (

), there could be a different set of rules that abound. This is the same for discharging 'wildlife' (looked it up when one of our girls was killed by a raccoon).

 

[Illia]

Wait, you mean to say our raccoons are protected unless there is utter proof that they're harming your livestock?

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I did not know I had this pet peeve until the neighbor's dog came into my yard and barked at me. Every day I come home from work their dog comes over and just non stop barking. It is a tiny dog so it will walk though my field fence and bark at me.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Not saying that anyone is going to enforce it.