Neighbor dog on my property harassing wildlife

[k0ua]

In the last place I lived, on the far end of the property, the neighbors chickens would come over onto the property sometimes. I didn't care as it was just open field that I mowed, and far from my house on the end of the property close to the chicken owning neighbors house. But then I got to noticing coyotes laying in wait for the chickens to come over. Later I saw quite a few feather piles where the coyotes were "successful". Soon the chicken "problem" which was never really a problem to me was gone.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had a neighbor lady come over and ask if I would shoot the dogs (two) that were killing her chickens. I told her I don't shoot dogs, but I felt sorry for her, earlier her husband unexpectedly died right in her house, she had a bunch of young girls and she was just making it!

I knew the dogs she was talking about, because I saw them chasing deer too, so I quietly shot them both, by that time her chickens were coming over and pooping and leaving feathers all around. To me, the pop was fertilizer for my grass, and the birds loved the feathers... lol Next thing I found a few nest in my buildings, so I started collecting eggs!

One day I saw a cat kill a chicken, so I shot it too, and I figure the rest of those chickens were just repaying me with their eggs, for protecting them! lol

SR

 

[hunt4570]

I don't throw a fit. I just tell the few trespassers to leave and not come back. No need to get excited and probably better not to as hunters are generally armed and I always am.

I am kind of amazed that you have trespassing hunters at all. In seven years I have had on night hunter run through the property. If it wasn't for the trail camera, I wouldn't have even known about it.

I have a had a couple of adjoining property hunters ask if they could retrieve shot game that might run onto might property. I tell them sure, give them my phone and ask that they text so I know not to fire in their direction. Not a big deal, Heck, I am happy for them that they are filling a tag.

I don't throw a fit, and in the last 30 years or so I've only had a couple trespass hunters. What we are talking about was hunting dogs running someone's property without their permission, which I've not had in at least 20 years. just discussing what might need to be done if someone has a problem with that situation.
I would have no problem with someone needing to retrieve shot game as I would hate for that game to go to waste, in fact I'd probably help in the search.

Everybody is turning this whole thing around from what was said.

 

[hunt4570]

Yep, I realize that. I was about 1000 feet away operating a farm tractor. Couldnt get to her before she left the property and crossed back over to the town house complex.
I cant believe the way people are raised and their lack of consideration for others.
My wife tells me Im very scary looking and not to confront women :laughing:

My wife always told me to be cleaning my guns when the boys came over to see my daughters!:laughing:

 

[hunt4570]

I have to laugh (not at you, but what you wrote). Hunters around here have ZERO, I mean ZERO regard for private property. Some of em are suit & tie types that become " weekend macho men " shoot a deer and drag it home to the ol lady to show them what a man they are :laughing: The good hunters ask permission and dont leave a trace and offer compensatory property help.
I farm a property owned by a guy who lives 200 miles north of me. Its his weekend getaway property, but he rarely uses it. Real real nice fella. He wont run any of them off the property. They have their tree stands lined up about 100' apart along the woods edge of the hay fields for thousands of feet.:laughing: Once in a blue moon one will get a deer. Then theyll lose track of the poor sob in the middle of the hay field and leave the bones there to find one of my $1500 tractor tires the following summer.:thumbdown: I bow hunt a little and kill tons of varmits. I get the attraction to hunting, but I gotta tell ya, I hate trespassing their stupid tree stands and their stupid dogs like not much else.
Inconsiderate, ignorant people they are and the dog is just a representation of its owner.

I've collected a couple nice deer stands put up on my property.. its kinda like Christmas!

 

[hunt4570]

A few years back, my immediate next door neighbor had chickens that would take up residence on my property next to my driveway. Getting out of the car, they would aggressively swarm you until the rooster showed up to press home the attack. In addition to droppings and feathers, the nesting areas started under my trees.

Talking with my neighbor got the response "you are in the country..deal with it".

The chickens soon became fox and hawk food, the hawk was actually shot at by the neighbor while it was over my property.

Eventually nature won out.

And I didn't have to exercise my second amendment rights.

I'd harvest the chickens and if he complained I'd give him the answer he gave you.."you are in the country..deal with it".

And I'm pretty sure it is illegal to shoot a hawk in any state..

 

[hunt4570]

All these discussions on property boundaries and trespassing do not take into regional state laws.
I'm not a lawyer, though I do sleep with one at night, but I know the laws in Vermont were that I could generally hunt on other peoples land UNLESS it was POSTED whereas in Mississippi all land is "NO TRESPASSING" by default.

That's why I've always posted my land in every state I've lived in.

 

[riptides]

My wife always told me to be cleaning my guns when the boys came over to see my daughters!:laughing:

And make sure the tractor with the bucket is clearly visible.

 

[lostcreekranch]

And make sure the tractor with the bucket is clearly visible.

Or .. the back hoe.

 

[95XL883]

I don't throw a fit, and in the last 30 years or so I've only had a couple trespass hunters. What we are talking about was hunting dogs running someone's property without their permission, which I've not had in at least 20 years. just discussing what might need to be done if someone has a problem with that situation.
I would have no problem with someone needing to retrieve shot game as I would hate for that game to go to waste, in fact I'd probably help in the search.

Everybody is turning this whole thing around from what was said.

Sorry if I misunderstood. My apologies.

Thought just occurred to me that if the dogs are so valuable and are that tame/well behaved, just call them over, tie/lock them up and call the sheriff or animal control. If the owners show up first, tell them they can't come on the ground and have to wait to talk to LEO's/Animal Control/Game Warden. Keep the dogs watered and in the shade until they are picked up. A few fines would probably get the offending hunters to take better care. Of course, the other thought is once someone starts hunting on land without permission, (depending on state laws as Newbury points out) that might be poaching. The state might take their dogs, their transmitters, their trucks. They better watch their attitude.

Dogs running through during or just before hunting season would bother me. The only year I got zero during deer season is when my neighbor let his pack run. Still, I didn't yell at anyone. It was just a firm but polite keep the critters off my ground. One told me his dogs didn't run game. Just then a big doe bolts across the field in mid-day. A few seconds later, here come his dogs. I looked at him and with a smile said "Don't run game, eh?" As I said, he fenced his place pretty securely a few months later, problem solved.