Posted: 2/18/2014 3:39:03 PM EDT
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They got three before I could get a good shot off.
One was chasing my panicked Saipan Jungle Fowl in the pond and it made for an easy shot but the other was too erratic to get a clean shot. It was an ugly shot and took tracking to find where it bled out. Dog kills my chickens, dog dies. That's the rules. The collars were returned to the owners' mailbox handle. 
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| A neighbor down the street from me lets his Pit Bull out sometimes to roam. I shot the hell out of that dog and his Border Collie who also killed a total of 6 chicken on MY property. The Pit ripped off one of my pant legs when I got near the pen to see what the hell was going on in there. The Collie dug the hole and the pit followed. I had no problem killing somebody else's dogs when they came on my property and killed my fenced animals. It was a sad deal for everybody but it won't happen again from his dogs anyways. He was not mad... he was sad, but those chickens are our pets too. |
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I have killed many dogs in my chickens. I've had a Pit go straight through the fence about knee high before. That one brought a Rot as well. That was satisfying morning even though I lost almost everything.
Domestic dogs mortally wound EVERYTHING but out right kill few. |
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Yes, Georgia is an owner liable state.
A few years ago I caught a neighbor shooting my chickens right outside my window early in the morning. When I confronted him with my 870, he dropped his 22 and ran. I chased him with my truck and called the police. They actually did a break the door in entry on his house and dragged him out for me to identify when he refused to answer the door. |
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Yes, Georgia is an owner liable state. A few years ago I caught a neighbor shooting my chickens right outside my window early in the morning. When I confronted him with my 870, he dropped his 22 and ran. I chased him with my truck and called the police. They actually did a break the door in entry on his house and dragged him out for me to identify when he refused to answer the door. Why the hell did he do that? |
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Quoted: Why the hell did he do that? Quoted: Quoted: Yes, Georgia is an owner liable state. A few years ago I caught a neighbor shooting my chickens right outside my window early in the morning. When I confronted him with my 870, he dropped his 22 and ran. I chased him with my truck and called the police. They actually did a break the door in entry on his house and dragged him out for me to identify when he refused to answer the door. Why the hell did he do that?  |
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They got three before I could get a good shot off. One was chasing my panicked Saipan Jungle Fowl in the pond and it made for an easy shot but the other was too erratic to get a clean shot. It was an ugly shot and took tracking to find where it bled out. Dog kills my chickens, dog dies. That's the rules. The collars were returned to the owners' mailbox handle. I love dogs, but that's exactly what I'd do. Actually it's what I have DONE in the past. So if the flaming starts, I stand with you. Once they start, they never stop until they're taking a dirt nap. |
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Yes, Georgia is an owner liable state. A few years ago I caught a neighbor shooting my chickens right outside my window early in the morning. When I confronted him with my 870, he dropped his 22 and ran. I chased him with my truck and called the police. They actually did a break the door in entry on his house and dragged him out for me to identify when he refused to answer the door. WTF? Why did he shoot your chickens? |
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I have no idea why, they never got in his yard or anything.
Another neighbor had a llama and peacocks. However I suspect he killed them too. He's lucky to be alive when I had him point blank with the 870. My orders now are shoot on sight any dog that gets onto the property at the center for birds of prey until we can get a permitted Golden Eagle to train for at large predator control. |
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I have no idea why, they never got in his yard or anything. Another neighbor had a llama and peacocks. However I suspect he killed them too. He's lucky to be alive when I had him point blank with the 870. My orders now are shoot on sight any dog that gets onto the property at the center for birds of prey until we can get a permitted Golden Eagle to train for at large predator control. I might have given him one free pass for killing the peacocks. |
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I have no idea why, they never got in his yard or anything. Another neighbor had a llama and peacocks. However I suspect he killed them too. He's lucky to be alive when I had him point blank with the 870. My orders now are shoot on sight any dog that gets onto the property at the center for birds of prey until we can get a permitted Golden Eagle to train for at large predator control. Killing a dog just for being on the property is a dick move. I am all for killing them to protect your property or killing them if they come back after killing though. We have livestock and the asshole city dwellers keep dropping off dogs. Ya hate killing them for doing what they have to do to survive but I have killed a lot of them. 
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I have killed two dogs from next door. Last week their 2 new dogs were sitting at my fence druelling over the chicken at which time I yelled at the neighbor and told him he would be wise to put his dogs in a pen before they got after my chickens because if they did those dogs would be dead as well.
These morons move out to the country and his wife wants dogs but says it is cruel to keep them in a fenced yard, so they let them run all over the place.
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A long time ago when I was about 6 or 7 I went outside and saw some stray dogs killing our chickens near the barn. I ran inside and told my dad, then ran back outside to help with whatever he did. He came out of the house with a Marlin 30/30 and started rattling off shots, 5 or 6 I think, and he got 2 of the 3 dogs while they were running at a full clip from about 50 yards. I remember my mouth was literally hanging open. I'd never seen the rifle before and had never seen anyone shoot a gun before. It made an impression.
A year later we had some stray hounds get in our fence and kill 5 goats (nobody was home that afternoon), 2 of which were pregnant and ready to kid. One we were able to keep alive long enough to deliver 2 healthy does. About a month later we got the first of these shepherds below and we never again lost an animal to strays. Their presence kept most other dogs away, and they made short, lethal work of the few who were persistent enough to push through the fence. 
Unfortunately (and this would be a big asterisk for you, heh) they did kill chickens occasionally, a vice we could never cure them from. We usually had 20 or 30 free range chickens roaming around, and they'd maul 3 or 4 a year. Certainly bad behavior but not enough to be a significant problem since the majority of the chickens knew to keep their distance. |
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What part of GA is this. Once a chicken eating dog=always a chicken eating dog. Good shoot.
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Yes, Georgia is an owner liable state. A few years ago I caught a neighbor shooting my chickens right outside my window early in the morning. When I confronted him with my 870, he dropped his 22 and ran. I chased him with my truck and called the police. They actually did a break the door in entry on his house and dragged him out for me to identify when he refused to answer the door. |
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I have no idea why, they never got in his yard or anything. Another neighbor had a llama and peacocks. However I suspect he killed them too. He's lucky to be alive when I had him point blank with the 870. My orders now are shoot on sight any dog that gets onto the property at the center for birds of prey until we can get a permitted Golden Eagle to train for at large predator control. I would not risk my golden eagle to take out a predatory dog. That kind of animal is not worth more than three 12 gauge slugs. Just sayin. |
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It's my orders as we are a federal site and it's to protect the owlets come spring. Can't take any chances when they are learning to hunt in the pond. They will be totally vulnerable. Quoted:
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Killing a dog just for being on the property is a dick move. It's my orders as we are a federal site and it's to protect the owlets come spring. Can't take any chances when they are learning to hunt in the pond. They will be totally vulnerable. If I could be down there, I'd have my shotgun and be right there with you. |
| remember years ago my aunt & uncle had a boxer who got out and killed a neighbors chicken. He advice them to tie the dead chicken around his neck for a few days, he stayed outdoors in his pen. As I recall he never chased or killed chickens again. Of course this could all be BS as I was a a 10 year old kid at the time, memory sometimes right on, sometimes not. |
| I shot our neighbors beagles that killed most our chickens, these dogs did it twice before to other people so i dumped them called the cops gave him the collars and he handed them to the guy i buried his dogs for him. Now my pit bull is helping watch over the homestead she's a good dog |
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I would not risk my golden eagle to take out a predatory dog. That kind of animal is not worth more than three 12 gauge slugs. Just sayin. Quoted:
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I have no idea why, they never got in his yard or anything. Another neighbor had a llama and peacocks. However I suspect he killed them too. He's lucky to be alive when I had him point blank with the 870. My orders now are shoot on sight any dog that gets onto the property at the center for birds of prey until we can get a permitted Golden Eagle to train for at large predator control. I would not risk my golden eagle to take out a predatory dog. That kind of animal is not worth more than three 12 gauge slugs. Just sayin. They use golden eagles to hunt and kill wolves in the -stan regions. They f them up. |
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As long as they don't mess with anything I'll let a dog run through without a second thought. I've even let em pass for just one or two chickens if I've never seen the dog before. I love my dogs, but they always get out/loose at least once in a blue moon. I'd hate to know someone shot my dogs just because they ran through their yard the one day out of the year they got a wild hair in their ass, so I try to practice what I preach. Now that being said, the second visit that causes a chicken loss/damage it's dead on sight or any future sighting.
My ex-neighbors kids had a few mixed dogs that took out about ten hens in one day and I rolled in from work as they fled. They took one with them, so when he saw it he came over and first thing he asked me was did I have a 12 gauge. I said yes, and he handed me 2 5rnd boxes of 00Buck and said if I ever saw them again just let him know and he'd pick up the corpses. He also refused to leave without paying for not only the hens but also the years worth of feed I had in them as well as compensation for any eggs I may have gotten from them for about 6 months. Said he just appreciated not having to explain the facts if life to his small child, but would actually be upset with me if I didn't shoot them next time. Pretty good guy actually, never had any issues. |
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If you don't want to kill them, there are other options: http://imageshack.com/a/img34/3997/dogspraypainted.jpg Yeah...most of the chicken-killing dogs I've ever seen know exactly what they're doing and you can't catch them. With your hands. 
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They got three before I could get a good shot off. One was chasing my panicked Saipan Jungle Fowl in the pond and it made for an easy shot but the other was too erratic to get a clean shot. It was an ugly shot and took tracking to find where it bled out. Dog kills my chickens, dog dies. That's the rules. The collars were returned to the owners' mailbox handle. You are way nicer than I am to return the collars. The rules are the rules. Had one of my own dogs get to killing chickens... he's in the ground now. No amount of 'training' broke him of it. Don't remember the final death toll, but he got to where he knew and was damn sneaky about it. If my current pooch ever goes in for that, or strays and gets at it... by God someone's gonna shoot the SOB. So far, so good though. Four years into having chickens and he's only ruffed up one or two - more from trying to help move them than to kill. And then there are the strays and the coyotes. Target practice for me. |