Neighbors and their many running wild dogs

[plowhog]

the ones that stay you wish they would leave, and the good ones get the heck away.

This good advice could also work at match.com or other dating sites.

 

[Sigarms]

Most rural communities are literally disintegrating. The young folk--the ones that stay you wish they would leave, and the good ones get the heck away. Drugs, booze, and despair, and a large dose of I-don't-care.

Eh... people being people, you have the same type of issues in every type of community, small or large.

We've been blessed. I've sent flowers to my neighbors for letting me know in the past when our one hound would "slip away" from our yard without us catching him (which thankfully has seemed to stopped as he was a "rescue" who my boy "found" hitting golf balls out back with my dad), as well as having another neighbor be grateful to use our one back pasture for hay. We went out on a walk the other day and a couple neighbors who saw us asked us where we've been because we went on vacation the first week in June and another two weeks I was away helping my dad and they hadn't seen us in a while.

We're relocated Yankees, yet when we moved into our place, within the first year, we invited our close neighbors over and they told us that since they've lived there (many years), they NEVER set foot on our property let alone be inside our house, and the guy who built our house was a very much "local" who lived in the same community with his own family. Seemed that guy and his family wasn't very well liked for various reasons.

That said, there is a small trailer park down aways, and my one neighbor bets it was someone there who put the tree stand on my property without asking.

Common courtesy isn't lost on everyone, no matter where you travel.

That said, the majority of our neighbors are older than us, and anybody that someone is scratching their heads over (as far as being "normal" LOL) is younger than us (and we're in our early 50's).

The one thing I've learned is you not only have good people, bad people, smart people, idiotic people, kind people, mean peole in the small corners of not only North Carolina, Virginia and all the other 48 states in the US, but also in the corners of South America, Africa, Europe and every other part of the world.

 

[riptides]

When another farmer's dog got in my Grandfather's Hen House... he called the farmer and the neighbor farmer came over and shot his own dog... saying once they go rogue nothing else can be done.

He told my Grandfather to count up his damages and he would make it good and he did.

This is my experience of farm country....

Had this same experience with a Bull last summer, sort of. Farmer came up the driveway, very apologetic, discussed his animal and told me to shoot it if it comes on my property again.

Well if I see a Bull in the back forty, I certainly am not going to go confront it. But at least he was trying to be accountable for his animal.

 

[kenmac]

That said, the majority of our neighbors are older than us, and anybody that someone is scratching their heads over (as far as being "normal" LOL) is younger than us (and we're in our early 50's).

That's my case. Most of the ones right around me are older .
Heck, I don't know how I got here so quickly, but I woke up one day and I'm 60 !

 

[riptides]

That's my case. Most of the ones right around me are older .
Heck, I don't know how I got here so quickly, but I woke up one day and I'm 60 !

Time stands still for no one.

 

[Jstpssng]

Time stands still for no one.

You could make that into the name of a song... maybe even get Mick Jagger to sing it for you.

 

[goeduck]

Try using a paint ball gun on them. When they go home with paint on them he may take it more seriously. A lot of times people don't really believe that their good dogs are getting into trouble.

And if the owners do not do anything after the first time, then maybe inject the paintballs with some real paint for the second time. Oil based to get all over his porch or house. And if they come back for a third time then I guess they need to be dealt with as the final time.

We have two neighbors whose dogs get onto our property but they (all four) are good dogs, never a problem.

 

[aczlan]

And if the owners do not do anything after the first time, then maybe inject the paintballs with some real paint for the second time. Oil based to get all over his porch or house. And if they come back for a third time then I guess they need to be dealt with as the final time.

We have two neighbors whose dogs get onto our property but they (all four) are good dogs, never a problem.

I wouldn't inject them with oil-based paint. Just buy the pepper spray paintballs, that will hope the dogs to remember to stay away.

Aaron Z

 

[goeduck]

I wouldn't inject them with oil-based paint. Just buy the pepper spray paintballs, that will hope the dogs to remember to stay away.

Aaron Z

I did not know there was such a thing. That sounds nasty and effective.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I am the bad neighbor. We just moved to a farm house about 15 miles from where we are building our own place. I use a radio controlled perimeter fence system with shock collars for my two Podencos. The older one stays within the limits of the system, but the younger one has run thru the system twice and taken off. We have since recalibrated the transmitter and collars and they seem to be working properly but when the dog took off, he was gone for many hours and I could hear him in the distance barking. The first time was about 10:30pm and he didn't come home till 3 am. The second time was in the early morning and he was gone till the afternoon. I could hear him barking in the distance and used google maps to figure out where the roads were that would get me to where he was. I didn't find him but he was waiting on the porch when I got back. He was completely torn up with cuts and abrasions and his eyes were very swollen from running thru tall grass and getting loads of pollen and debris in them.
That was enough for me. That was when I recalibrated the transmitter and collar. But the next day I stopped at Cabella's and bought a Garmin Alpha 100 GPS tracking/training collar and handheld. I have been training him on this and we put it on him regularly when he is outside. I don't want to lose my dog. I don't want him harassing anyone else's dogs or other animals and they would be completely justified in shooting him if he was.