You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[stuckmotor]

Winn-Dixie currently operates 513 stores in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Mississippi.

I 've got 3 in my area . All pretty new .

Thanks Salorman,
I guess I got north and south mixed up. Not as serious a mistake as it would have been in 1863.

 

[dadster4]

You're not kidding, we left the suburbs about 2.5 years ago and moved to our ten acre farm. We recently flew to Orlando FL. When we got to DFW we had to get on an escalator. We tried explaining it to my 9,7, and 5 year old but still ended up causing a traffic jam at the base of the escalator. Ended up I had to fling all three of them on to the escalator. It was definitely a "Clampetts go to the Big City" moment.

Classic: I grew up outside Chicago...my mother would leave my brother and me to "play on the escalator" at Sears while shopping for hours!

 

[STx]

I think you need to sell, move out of that place and never look back. LOL Or maybe I need to move out of the danger I'm in. A flock of wild turkeys are walking around here all the time.

I have a group of 10 - 16 that I feed just outside my back door. They're within 20' of the house 2 - 4 times a day, I wish someone had told me how dangerous they are before I got them acclimated to us.

 

[dickfoster]

I have a group of 10 - 16 that I feed just outside my back door. They're within 20' of the house 2 - 4 times a day, I wish someone had told me how dangerous they are before I got them acclimated to us.

Yeah maybe I need to worry about my dog now too. When we moved here, he had great fun flushing the flock and watching them fly up into the lower tree limbs but now he just sorta hang out with them when they come by. Maybe he thinks he's a turkey now or else he just likes the company.

 

[STx]

Yeah maybe I need to worry about my dog now too. When we moved here, he had great fun flushing the flock and watching them fly up into the lower tree limbs but now he just sorta hang out with them when they come by. Maybe he thinks he's a turkey now or else he just likes the company.

We have a fenced yard for the dog that the chickens also stay in. My dog still half heatedly barks at the turkeys when they're 5' from her but, they really don't pay her much attention now that they know she's contained. Sometimes they'll run 10' or so and then come back for more corn. She'll probably give up completely in another month or so.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I have counted as many as 64 turkeys in my yard at one time. They have the neighborhood cats terrified. They clean up the wasted birdseed around the feeder; they fertilize my driveway, roost on my truck and scratch the paint, dust themselves in the bare spots under my trees and leave feathers in the yard which my mower won't mulch. I suppose they do eat some bugs and ticks and such and they are kinda fun to watch, especially when the mother brings her chicks for a visit.

 

[Paul Thornton]

A few more and I'll have enough for a whole bird.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I have always been a farm kid, and some rural people have no manners at all. When I bought my current place, it had not been well managed for timber. I planted thousands of tree seedlings, which the neighbor's cows proceeded to tear up and eat. I told him he needed to fence his cows, and he drug his feet. After nagging him for six months, I told him it was time to **** or git. He told me it was "open range" and his cows could eat there if they wanted to. I figured if he wanted open range I would give it to him, so took down all my fences. He found his cows a mile down the road blocking traffic. Then he wanted me to put my fences back up so his cows wouldn't get out. I told him where he could stuff his cows. He made a half hearted effort to fence his property, but just doesn't pasture cows on that parcel any more.

 

[bruski]

A year or two ago a new couple from the city moved in up the road. They had some visitors from the city that brought a big dog with them. They thought it would be a good idea to let the dog run free while visiting their "farm" friends. It found its way into my horse pasture when the horses were out. Ran it off with a pellet gun before Skip, a huge quarter horse got to him. Skip has killed more than one dog, nothing that horse hates more than a dog. He's the master of the side kick and the stop and rear kick, either deadly for a dog. Went to the neighbor's house to let them know getting the dog back on their property would be a good plan. The visitor informed me that her dog wouldn't hurt my horses. I had to explain to her exactly who was about to get hurt. My GSD, Greta, watched the dog in the pasture with amusement. She knew better than to go there, that that territory belonged to Skippy. She frequently walked around the pasture fence line, but never entered.

 

[Garandman]

Out of curiousity looked up Missouri law on worrying livestock (which all states seem to have).

2. If a person has, on at least two occasions, complained to the county sheriff or to the appropriate animal control authority in his or her jurisdiction that a dog, not on a leash, has trespassed on property that such person owns, rents, or leases or on any property that constitutes such person's residence, and when at least one of the prior two complaints was motivated by reasonable apprehension for such person's safety or the safety of another person or apprehension of substantial damage to livestock or property, then any subsequent trespass by such dog shall constitute prima facie evidence that such person was in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful contact.

The county sheriff or animal control authority to which any complaint under this section is made shall notify the owner of the alleged trespassing dog of such complaint. Failure by a county sheriff or animal control authority to notify a dog owner under this subsection shall not invalidate or be construed in any way to limit any other provision of this subsection.

Chapter 273 RSMO