Neighbor's dobermans on my land, protecting "their" property ...??

[deezler]

Bep, the one thing I haven't seen asked in this thread:

Why don't you patch up the fence yourself?

You say there is "one" spot where they keep coming under the fence, i.e. the specific location where you see the belly drag marks. If there is only one damaged or weaker part of the fence, can't it be patched up pretty easily? Or is that just where they happen to come under it most, and would only revert to another section... etc.

 

[aczlan]

Bep, the one thing I haven't seen asked in this thread:
Why don't you patch up the fence yourself?
You say there is "one" spot where they keep coming under the fence, i.e. the specific location where you see the belly drag marks. If there is only one damaged or weaker part of the fence, can't it be patched up pretty easily? Or is that just where they happen to come under it most, and would only revert to another section... etc.

IIRC, it is a barbed wire fence, so they are coming under the most convenient spot.

Aaron Z

 

[beppington]

Bep, the one thing I haven't seen asked in this thread:

Why don't you patch up the fence yourself?

You say there is "one" spot where they keep coming under the fence, i.e. the specific location where you see the belly drag marks. If there is only one damaged or weaker part of the fence, can't it be patched up pretty easily? Or is that just where they happen to come under it most, and would only revert to another section... etc.

IIRC, it is a barbed wire fence, so they are coming under the most convenient spot.

Aaron Z

Correct, Aaron. 660' of old, rusty barbed wire running thru a mass of trees & saplings, but with 3 or 4 clear-ish spots for them to come under. Even if I blocked those, they would choose another.

 

[EE_Bota]

My granny used to make the BEST Chicken and Dumplings. :thumbsup: :licking: Now she made the dumpling so they are FLAT but not too flat. My wifey's side of the family makes Chicken and Dumplings where they dumplings are really noodles. It is good but them noodles AIN'T dumplings. I think it is a NC thing. Now my Yankee grandmother would make Chicken and Dumplings where the dumplings were really DOUGH BALLS. Then she put PEAS into the Chicken and Dumplings. :confused2::ashamed:

My GA granny got it right. :thumbsup:

Chicken and Dumplings is good old peasant food. Since chicken was expensive back in they day, Chicken and Dumplings, allowed you to cook an old chicken that was no longer producing eggs, AND feed a whole bunch of people from a little meat. Chicken was so expensive it was only eaten on Sundays and that was a treat. A politician once ran on the slogan of a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

If I had a trespassing chicken I think I would be having some Chicken and Dumplings like my GA granny would make. :licking: If the chicken looks young you don't have to cook as long as you would for an older bird. Use FLAT dumplings. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

Not so fast..my Mom made her dumplings such that they were like clouds...big fluffy clouds. These would be the best with invading chickens.

Edit: Maybe we can kill many birds with one stone. I propose a Chicken and Dumpling cookoff, with Riptides providing the mystery chickens. :')

 

[dmccarty]

Not so fast..my Mom made her dumplings such that they were like clouds...big fluffy clouds. These would be the best with invading chickens.

Yuck! Your momma must have been a Yankee! :laughing: Did she put PEAS in the Chicken and Dumplings too? :ashamed:

Are them fight'n words? :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I was talking with the wifey about the three dogs that used to be a problem in our neighborhood.

Not only where the three dogs aggressive to people walking in the neighborhood they were also going into the yard of the house next door. The lady in the house did not like the dog messing up her yard and she felt threatened by the dogs as well. I do remember when the lady built her house the dog owners had put some of their stuff on the lady's land and they did not want to move the stuff.

I know the lady talked with the dog owners regarding their stuff on her land as well as the dogs but the dog owners refused to do anything. Talking only goes so far.

The lady called the town, the county and the sheriff. The town and county pointed at each other to solve the dog problem. She really should have gone up the chain of command because the county lied to her but since the town and county refused to help, she called the sheriff. The deputy told her to shoot the dogs if she felt threatened by the dogs.

When we were looking to buy land we were visiting a place that was for sale. The seller was the last surviving sibling and he was in his 80's. The place had a small house his father had built around 1900 in which this man was born. The man was a chicken farmer and by gawd he smelled worse than chicken scat. :confused2:

While we where talking, some rabbit hunters came on his land and he asked me if I would go along with him to tell the hunters to get off his land which I did. Let me tell you, riding in Chicken Man's truck was a trip. Not a fun trip because he and the truck STANK. But he and the truck smelled better than a man and his truck I used to work with years ago. The man was a serious drunk and his truck was a work truck that could easily be washed out when he puked. Let me tell you this, you can't wash out the smell of puke....

Any who,:laughing: the Chicken Man had been raising chickens all of his life. He told us that every once in a while the farmers would get together and have to shoot stray dogs. He said the stray dog population would build up to a point where they were getting bothersome, and when that happened, the farmers would get together and reduce the population.

Later,
Dan

 

[EE_Bota]

Yuck! Your momma must have been a Yankee! :laughing: Did she put PEAS in the Chicken and Dumplings too? :ashamed:

Are them fight'n words? :laughing:

Later,
Dan

Nah..she's from folks been here couple hundred years. Not peas...just fluffy clouds.

We'd all have to show up and let her "see" the chicken, and she'd know what to do with it. But we should arrive with full bags of flour, ect, and weigh what is left to know what got gone. Her stuff doesn't come out right if the quantities of the additions are known in advance. It's a country woman's version of the "Uncertainty Principle."

 

[dmccarty]

Nah..she's from folks been here couple hundred years. Not peas...just fluffy clouds.

We'd all have to show up and let her "see" the chicken, and she'd know what to do with it. But we should arrive with full bags of flour, ect, and weigh what is left to know what got gone. Her stuff doesn't come out right if the quantities of the additions are known in advance. It's a country woman's version of the "Uncertainty Principle."

Since there are no PEAS, the dumplings are sounding better. :laughing:

My granny never measured anything either. Until the day she died, she loved to tell the story of when I was home alone in my late teens, and I called her to ask how she made Chicken and Dumplings. I had bought a chicken and I wanted me some Chicken and Dumplings. :licking::laughing: Course her instructions were to use a bit of this and and a bit of that.

I really miss her.

Later,
Dan

 

[Mace Canute]

You know, it just occurred to me that if beppington was Korean for example, the neighbours dogs would have "disappeared" a long time ago!

 

[riptides]

You know, it just occurred to me that if beppington was Korean for example, the neighbours dogs would have "disappeared" a long time ago!

Now, now.... remember SOME of us think the PEOPLE are the issue. Soooo.........