What Is So Hard To Understand.......
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I'm gonna bet that moving 10 miles you are safe. That's a heck of a long walk for a turtle.
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Ridgerunner and Woodmort, among others, raise some excellent points. I feel there is no hard and fast answer or rule that always works everywhere. We have to use some common sense and work with our neighbors who also have to use some common sense. Would that this were more often the way it goes.
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We keep it very simple when dealing with preditors including feral "pets".
We have game cams at all the pens.
We also use ir cameras and video rec.
And simply review the footage. Day or Night.
We don't kill every animal that makes its way onto our property.
Preditors have paterns that can be monitored and prepared for.
Every vermin that has been eliminated has been guilty, and in many cases caught in the act.
The last dog that we caught, had a collar on him. (An animal with a collar is never killed)
We were able to catch him and put him in one of our sheds.
We called the owner and asked him if he was missing a dog.
His 2 year old shepard decided to not only tresspass, but to attempt an attack on my dog.
Who pretty much ate him up.
The dog owner was a little pi.... about his dogs condition.
So just to humor him, I invited him to look at a little video.
Even offered him a beer.
I took him into my office and showed him about 2 min of a video with his dog.
His attitude changed pretty fast, when the vid showed my MIl going out to investigate all the noise.
Which clearly had shown the shepards attack, and the response given.
Audio could be heard of her calling Teu (our Rhodesian Ridgeback) off the shepard.
Which was on his back, with Teu's mouth around his neck.
Beginning a process which only ends badly.
I think the dozen eggs I gave him when he left, smoothed things over.
He comes by now and then to purchase items from us.
His daughter loves our dog, she gives him hugs. (Rhodesians are great around children)
I just wonder what their shepard thinks, when he smells Teu on his owners ?
Not all people kill everything that enters their property.
We have game cams at all the pens.
We also use ir cameras and video rec.
And simply review the footage. Day or Night.
We don't kill every animal that makes its way onto our property.
Preditors have paterns that can be monitored and prepared for.
Every vermin that has been eliminated has been guilty, and in many cases caught in the act.
The last dog that we caught, had a collar on him. (An animal with a collar is never killed)
We were able to catch him and put him in one of our sheds.
We called the owner and asked him if he was missing a dog.
His 2 year old shepard decided to not only tresspass, but to attempt an attack on my dog.
Who pretty much ate him up.
The dog owner was a little pi.... about his dogs condition.
So just to humor him, I invited him to look at a little video.
Even offered him a beer.
I took him into my office and showed him about 2 min of a video with his dog.
His attitude changed pretty fast, when the vid showed my MIl going out to investigate all the noise.
Which clearly had shown the shepards attack, and the response given.
Audio could be heard of her calling Teu (our Rhodesian Ridgeback) off the shepard.
Which was on his back, with Teu's mouth around his neck.
Beginning a process which only ends badly.
I think the dozen eggs I gave him when he left, smoothed things over.
He comes by now and then to purchase items from us.
His daughter loves our dog, she gives him hugs. (Rhodesians are great around children)
I just wonder what their shepard thinks, when he smells Teu on his owners ?
Not all people kill everything that enters their property.
Talihofarms .... That is a very good idea. I keep telling my hubby that we need some video camera's and then we could show our neighbors what their pets are doing or tearing up or stealing from our property.
I had one neighbor about half a mile down the road call us to ask if my hubby was missing one of his work boots. He left them on the back porch to dry out on a hot summer day, so they would be dry for work that night. Their dog stole one and took it home to chew on. They didn't even offer to replace them... $150 boots too!!
I had another neighbor on the other side of us call to tell my daughter that he found her wallet in his yard all chewed up by his dog. He knew it was her's only because her license was not chewed on yet. He went out of town, and left his dog run free. She was looking everywhere for that wallet for a week. The dog must have jumped into her car window (little car) and took it. She keeps her windows at least half way up now.
The neighbor behind us would call about once a week and tell us he had my young son's yard toys down his place. His dog would only take all the kids toys home and sometimes chew them up.
About 2 years ago, we got new neighbors about 1/4 mile away, and they have 4 Pittbulls. They let them all run free.... and of course they would come over to our place and try to fight our Boxer and tear everything up. So my hubby called them and told them that their dogs were coming over to our place and causing problems and they needed to keep them home. They got really upset and said some not so nice stuff. So my hubby told them that if they tried to fight our dog, that was on a run/lead, that he would shoot them because they were on our property and causing harm to our animals. The owners started keeping them home. Well, most of the time anyway.
I had one neighbor about half a mile down the road call us to ask if my hubby was missing one of his work boots. He left them on the back porch to dry out on a hot summer day, so they would be dry for work that night. Their dog stole one and took it home to chew on. They didn't even offer to replace them... $150 boots too!!
I had another neighbor on the other side of us call to tell my daughter that he found her wallet in his yard all chewed up by his dog. He knew it was her's only because her license was not chewed on yet. He went out of town, and left his dog run free. She was looking everywhere for that wallet for a week. The dog must have jumped into her car window (little car) and took it. She keeps her windows at least half way up now.
The neighbor behind us would call about once a week and tell us he had my young son's yard toys down his place. His dog would only take all the kids toys home and sometimes chew them up.
About 2 years ago, we got new neighbors about 1/4 mile away, and they have 4 Pittbulls. They let them all run free.... and of course they would come over to our place and try to fight our Boxer and tear everything up. So my hubby called them and told them that their dogs were coming over to our place and causing problems and they needed to keep them home. They got really upset and said some not so nice stuff. So my hubby told them that if they tried to fight our dog, that was on a run/lead, that he would shoot them because they were on our property and causing harm to our animals. The owners started keeping them home. Well, most of the time anyway.
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Security systems are worth every cent.
They are much more cheaper now than 3 years ago when we installed ours.
Kind of like the guys who baught the first Blue Ray players.
Which cost $1000.00 three or four years ago, can be purchased today for $175.00
Very hard to dispute actual footage.
Another bonus is our insurance on the property was lowered, with the system installed.
They are much more cheaper now than 3 years ago when we installed ours.
Kind of like the guys who baught the first Blue Ray players.
Which cost $1000.00 three or four years ago, can be purchased today for $175.00
Very hard to dispute actual footage.
Another bonus is our insurance on the property was lowered, with the system installed.
I agree with you, so many people don't pen in their cats and dogs. I'm a huge cat lover, but I am devastated when a cat catches a cute little shorebird chick or duckling. I get so torn because I love both chicks/ducklings and cats. Loose running dogs are also a problem and a threat to hikers, cyclists, and horseback riders, too. The thing is a lot of people let their dogs and cats run loose in rural areas, including people who were born and raised int he country and not just city people moving out to rural areas.
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redhen both our Brittanys live inside with us. They have their fenced in yard but even then Eva or I are constantly looking out at them. If we let them outside the fence to run one of us is with them. All that is as much to protect them as it is any other reason. Our cat is free to roam from the house to the barn but he is old,fat and lazy. On the rare occasion he may come in with a mouse or mole but beyond that he's just too lazy.
I'm of the belief that I can't very well complain about others animals running loose if I don't keep mine at home.
Larry
redhen both our Brittanys live inside with us. They have their fenced in yard but even then Eva or I are constantly looking out at them. If we let them outside the fence to run one of us is with them. All that is as much to protect them as it is any other reason. Our cat is free to roam from the house to the barn but he is old,fat and lazy. On the rare occasion he may come in with a mouse or mole but beyond that he's just too lazy.
I'm of the belief that I can't very well complain about others animals running loose if I don't keep mine at home.
Larry
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