Possum getting away

[texasjohn]

Tallyho's losing his pet chickens...that's serious, for sure and a :drool: shame.

Wikipedia says Leash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to the leash laws of Louisiana, dogs are prohibited to run at large at all times of the day.

The full statute is
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No person shall suffer or permit any dog in his possession, or kept by him about his premises, to run at large on any unenclosed land, or trespass upon any enclosed or unenclosed lands of another.
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

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Source:

Acts 1918, No. 239, ｧ 1.

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So, this has been the law since 1918:thumbsup:

I looked, but found no information regarding Louisiana penalties for allowing an unrestrained dog to invade another's property. Nor could I find anything regarding the rights of a livestock owner whose livestock is molested by a dog.

 

[Lurch]

If no one is in immediate danger. The first time I'll bring your dog home and tell you what he's been doing. The second time I won't.

 

[tallyho8]

I have been a dog owner and a hunter my entire life. I have owned some valuable coon hounds and competed in a dozen national championships and I am aware of how a dog can accidentally trespass on others property and also how much a dog can mean to an owner.

I would never harm a dog for simple trespass or minor incidents but may discuss it with the owner who is really the one at fault. When I caught that dog in my trap I notified the owner the next day that the dog woke me up at 1 AM whining to get out of the trap and showed him the photo. He did keep the dog chained up yesterday which also makes me feel bad because I hate to see a dog chained up and he is too lazy to build a kennel.

Last night, no photos, no fowl missing, nothing trapped. Maybe a dog howling to get off a chain scares the critters away.

 

[Car Doc]

Or maybe a certain dog being on a chain is why no yard birds missing.

 

[blueriver]

I just finally read this whole post ... Coyote, Possum, Skunks, Raccoon .. etc. THE WORST KILLER is a dang old dog.

I think your killer is probably all of the above. My chickens are locked in at night. When I was losing one it was early evening just prior to penning them.

I now have 2 LGD's and been good for 30 days ... Coyotes are so thick here they run in packs. Mostly early morning 4 a.m.

 

[blueriver]

I realize that there are many people in the world who are totally against hunting or fishing or even eating meat. Many others hunt, fish and even butcher their own hogs or cattle and believe there is nothing wrong with this as long as they do as little as they can to make the animal suffer.

People hunting coyotes with dogs are not intentionally making the animal suffer and those who hunt them in foxpens that are several square miles large rarely ever have a dog catch one. The old or sick ones that the dogs catch would be eventually caught and killed by the other coyotes if the dogs didn't get them first.

I respect others who do not want to hunt or fish or are vegetarians and I do not want to try to change their feelings or their ways but they may try to understand that many people in the world feel differently than they do and God alone is the one who will judge us in the end for what we have done.

If you do not believe in a higher power then you must realize that the huge majority of people on earth who have different beliefs than you should be respected for what they believe.

I do not wish to turn this thread into a hunting/anti-hunting thread and hope others will respect my wishes.

VERY WELL SAID!!

 

[Car Doc]

VERY WELL SAID!!

It is?

Looks like he "flew off" on a tangent to me how this went from trapping possums to a sermon is beyond me.

Maybe God is just feeding other critters with these pet yard birds but God only knows? :thumbsup:

 

[blueriver]

It is?

Looks like he "flew off" on a tangent to me how this went from trapping possums to a sermon is beyond me.

Maybe God is just feeding other critters with these pet yard birds but God only knows? :thumbsup:

Well it is ... the way I read it was basicly ... Don't Preach to me about your believes and I won't Preach to you.

 

[tallyho8]

My property is a mile deep and the dog I caught is on the front of my property close to the Mississippi River batture. I have game cameras in different areas and I have never seen a dog on my game cameras that are about 1/3 of a mile back on my property where the chickens are. Just coyotes, possums, armadillos, coons and cats so I don't think a dog is getting the chickens.

Car Doc
My "sermon" was in response to a post that likened foxpens to staging dog fights and I wanted to clarify that this is not the case. Foxpens that are built around large tracts of land encompassing hundreds or even thousands of acres are fenced more to keep your valuable dogs from trespassing or getting killed on the highways than they are with the intent of making "easy" game for the hunters. My "sermon" was just to further explain the situation before many others agreed and turned this into an anti-hunting thread.

It is not the same as a 10 acre pen filled with deer where you get to go in and pick out the one you want to shoot.

 

[Obed]

When I grew up on the farm, our dog ran loose. Before we moved to the farm, we lived in a subdivision. Our dog ran loose there too just like everybody else's dog. We own some vacant rural property. The dogs on that road run loose. One man complained that one of our neighbor's dogs had killed one of his chickens. That dog disappeared. Our neighbors who lost the dog seemed to understand and didn't harbor a grudge.

Where we live now, several dogs run free. I see them on our land. After we get settled in the house we are building, we will probably get a dog for security reasons. We plan to let the dog run free as that seems to be ok where we live. If our dog killed someone's chickens, I wouldn't have a problem if the farmer killed our dog. I figure that's his right. I've heard that once a dog kills a chicken, it's really hard to break that habit.

If someone's dog killed a chicken of ours, I'm guessing that dog would disappear. I suppose it's different if you suspect someone's dog but have no proof. While it's very nice to give the dog owner a warning, I think you are more likely to cause deep seated grudges if you complain to the owner. If you complained and the dog later disappeared, you would always be suspected whether or not you had anything to do with the disappearance. Bad blood between neighbors is to be avoided at all costs; even if that means dispatching of a bad dog in secret.

In some ways, it's sad that dogs can't play in the neighborhood anymore. It's sad that kids play soccer every night across town instead of playing in the neighborhood with the other kids who live there. It's sad that we build back porches instead of front porches and don't know the names of the people who live across the street from us.

I guess that I'm old fashioned and not up with the times.

Obed