Farm dogs and new neighbors. Ugh!

[TheMan419]

So op what was the resolution??

 

[goeduck]

My border collie and my cattle dog are very good alert dogs barking at people walking the beach or driving up the lane as well as barking at boats and kayaks too close to shore. Also they chase otters back into the water, rabbits, etc. back into the trees, but when it comes to the neighbor dogs they are social butterflies. More or less as I have trained them. It helps that I am on good terms with the neighbors and the neighbor dogs are welcome on my property. Just no pooping.

 

[check]

I wholeheartedly agree with the opinion that if their dogs came onto your property, it's the other owner's vet expense. Doesn't matter which dog started the ruckus, their dogs were not on leash (although no leash law applies here) and not on their own property. You've already gone the extra mile in trying to assist with the emergency care of their animal. For her to circumvent your expertise and go to some high-dollar money grabbing vet for basically a second opinion is out of her pocket - not yours. They simply need to understand who's responsibility the extra $1200 expense is - and it's NOT yours. Their choice - their dollars. We have pretty much as similar situation here. Had a new neighbor, albeit a renter, with a pit bull dog and one other young mix breed. The huge pit bull came onto our place, 13 acres, and up to our back door challenging anyone that wanted to come outside. She, the pit bull, made two other challenges to me, also on our property. After the county animal control came out the 3rd time, he warned the new neighbor that the next call would be a $600 fine. And advised them that I have every right to simply kill the dog if its on my property, on sight. Now, I'm definitely an animal lover. The last thing I want to do is to put someone's pet down. But on the other hand, that pit bull was definitely a serious threat; it meant business. I've owned pit bulls before, and know they can and will kill, be it another animal or a person. But I will not tolerate being challenged, especially on my own property. As a matter of perspective of the kind of dog owners they are, we see their dogs - the pit bull and a young mix breed, chained up in their back yard 24 hours a day - no matter if it is freezing cold out or pouring down rain. It seems to me that people of that mentality do not deserve to own dogs.

Very scary
situation, and I hope you have no kids., snd that no kids live nearby. Can you get the authorities to bust them for animal cruelty? Probably have to have some video evidence. If a vicious killer like that showed up at my back door, and threatened me, I would have to shoot it.

 

[bunyip]

Incidentally, both the smaller dogs were Jack Russel terriers and both male. I don't get what makes them think that they are a match for another dog that is six times their size? They should be called Kamikazee terriers.

We had a Jack Russell, the idiot used to chase the horses and one day we saw him get kicked, he went about 10' up and 50' sideways and I thought 'that will stop him', wrong, dusted himself off and went straight back in.
We gave him away in the end before he got himself killed.

 

[goeduck]

We had a Jack Russell, the idiot used to chase the horses and one day we saw him get kicked, he went about 10' up and 50' sideways and I thought 'that will stop him', wrong, dusted himself off and went straight back in.

He probably thought that was fun. I had a JR. Tough little guy.

 

[Dftodd]

We had a Jack Russell, the idiot used to chase the horses and one day we saw him get kicked, he went about 10' up and 50' sideways and I thought 'that will stop him', wrong, dusted himself off and went straight back in.
We gave him away in the end before he got himself killed.

We have a 15yo Jack Russel named jack. Used to kill snakes. First time I witnessed it. He was digging and rooting around a root ball left from a large oak that was toppled in a storm. He dug out a 3ft long copperhead . Grabbed it in the middle and slung it around like a pair of nun-chucks :shocked:

All was fine and dandy till he slung said copperhead at my wife Thats about the time she lost her marbles and started screaming for me to intervene. Well, he dove back in, snagged the copperhead again in the middle and started slinging it around again. The whole time the tail and the hard are getting beat into the ground. It was actually a pretty effective method :thumbsup:

Once he slung the snake off for the third or fourth time, I was able to jump in and snag him, and get him in the house. By this point my wife had also made it inside. As I was passing her the dog, she was passing me the shotgun. Asked me (ordered) to go out there and give the snake a double tap to make sure it was dead And to dispose of it.

After that ordeal, Jack got his nickname Jackie Chan :cool2: