Neighbors and their many running wild dogs

oosik · Jun 30, 2018

I live in the country and I RESENT your neighbors comment - all to H E L L. I have a dog and my neighbors have dogs and none of them run wild - never have.

If I wanted to be "more in the country" - I'd have to live in the middle of the Australian out-back.

The dogs are not the problem - they are the RESULT of the problem. The problem is your S H I T H E A D neighbor and his slovenly ways.

Call the County Sheriff and report him and his dogs. Call Animal Control and make the same reports. Keep making these calls until the problem is resolved.

TheMan419 · Jun 30, 2018

Depends on how badly you want to take care of the problem. Certainly put up the electric fence to protect the chickens.

Check out your laws on putting the dogs down if they are threatening the chickens. If the law allows that advise the neighbor of this fact.

Call animal control to see if there is anything they can do.

Me, after talking to the neighbor and warning him I would shoot the dogs.... welll probably the 3 S method as detailed above.

drssg · Jun 30, 2018

Jstpssng said:
Has anybody ever successfully live trapped a dog?

I have, but I think it would depend on the dog. This one was coming right up to the back door of our house, but he wasn’t friendly and was borderline aggressive.

I set up the trap just outside my garage, with dog food leading up to and inside the cage. He walked right in, and he wasn’t even startled when the door slammed shut. He was too busy eating.

Redbug · Jun 30, 2018

I like dogs and it's not the dog's fault this is happening. I agree if a dog is aggressive it needs to be put down. Around where I live, we put up with the deer doggers running their dogs all over people's property and shooting the deer from the roads. I don't blame the dogs, it's the people. Like the rest of the good folks here have mentioned...Animal Control, DNR, and the Sheriff's office are the way to go. Then you have a paper trail for further actions.

kenmac · Jun 30, 2018

I agree, it's not the dog's fault. It's the dumb AZZ neighbor. I have a dog too. She has an underground fence system that keeps her on my place.

We have sheriff but no animal control here.

I can put up electric fence, I'll just have to run electricity out to that area to keep them from getting inside the cage, I just don't know it the elec. fence will stop them from running my chickens while the dogs are outside the cage

Don't you just hate an irresponsible animal owner.
Oh, he has all these dogs and lives in a run down double wide too !

Ritothebull · Jun 30, 2018

All the dogs that I have seen that harass livestock appears to be screwed up in the head, my neighbor has one and I have watched that dog chase his horses up and down his fenceline for years. Had a kid that worked for me for a year and his dog would charge the fence just to spook my cows every day, he would also run along side my gator and try to bite the tires, its a miracle we never ran him over. I like dogs but I don't know what people see in some of these dogs, If they were mine I would probably let them run wild too so I wouldn't have to put up with them.

NoTrespassing · Jun 30, 2018

That's a lousy situation you have there. The loser in the double-wide might retaliate if he thinks you harmed or killed his dogs or even called the law on him for that matter. Since you already talked to him, he'll probably suspect you first now if something happens. We had a couple dogs roam onto our property just the other day and our dogs ran them off. They haven't been back since.

If I were in your spot, with no animal control available, I might consider electric fence around a larger area to keep the dogs off the property. In my experience, once a dog takes a jolt to the nose they don't forget it for a very long time. I've had dogs zapped by our electric fence and I couldn't get them to go near the pasture for months afterwards. I'd try running one strand about nose high first. It wouldn't cost too much and it might do the trick. If the pack leader gets hit, the rest of the group will probably get the message when they hear the YELP! If they get past it, hang a piece of bacon on it.

Kevin

pmsmechanic · Jun 30, 2018

I would just hook up the electric fence straight to the hot on an outlet. Make sure the ground is good and damp for good conductivity. Hang bacon. For those dogs who like to snap at tires a gunny sack tied to the rim does a good job.

I may sound a bit harsh but we lost a whole flock of ducks and geese to the neighbors dogs. I've bad very low tolerance since.

TractorGuy · Jun 30, 2018

These suggestions that the OP should spend time and money to keep the dogs out amaze me. The OP has already gone above and beyond by talking to the neighbors about the problem.

I have ni tolerance for free ranging mischievous dogs. The last ones I had a problem with I called animal control and gave them the address where the dogs owner lived. I was lucky that one call solved my problem.

No worries on how a neighbor that doesn't care anyway will take it.