Visit from the RCMP re: dumped carcasses
- Thread starter sjemac
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Having lived in rural Sask. for over 30 years, my advice is to be nice. Being a good neighbor is always the best route. Sooner or later, any good you do will be returned, and sooner or later we will all need some help. I don't understand why anyone would want to be in a constant state of conflict with neighbors, even if it means you have to compromise on something.
Of course, I'm old, and that sentiment seems to be losing its cool factor in what seems to be the modern "angry and aggressive solves everything" context we live now, but whether you use the "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" reasoning, or if Karma is your thing, or maybe just "What goes around, comes around", you will always be better off being nice if you can.
Of course, I'm old, and that sentiment seems to be losing its cool factor in what seems to be the modern "angry and aggressive solves everything" context we live now, but whether you use the "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" reasoning, or if Karma is your thing, or maybe just "What goes around, comes around", you will always be better off being nice if you can.
Yeah, it's all one big "what if" to people who live in cities and don't actually have to deal with it. That's why you can give advice like this:
I would have shot the trespassing dog, and shoved it in her mail box.
Like I said people who actually have to deal with this get to choose between being a good neighbour and an ignorant douchebag. Those who will never face the situation for real are free to engage in their trigger-happy fantasies on the Internet.
- Location
- Niagara Region, Ontario. For now
Like I said people who actually have to deal with this get to choose between being a good neighbour and an ignorant douchebag. Those who will never face the situation for real are free to engage in their trigger-happy fantasies on the Internet.
^^ THIS!!
Not often I agree with Claybuster but he hit the nail on the head with this one!
So we are calling the neighbour a citiot and getting up in arms over a wondering dog, and that makes her ignorant right?
How ignorant does it make some of you look suggesting shooting the dog for doing nothing but wondering?
She went overboard calling the cops and she realized and apologized for it. Sounds like she is making an attempt to make things right.
Killing her dog will likely have the cops back at your place, and the prior incident might lead to the police believing you had motive to kill the dog. Nothing good can come from it.
Thanks to those that continue to make us look like trigger happy hillbillies.
Living in rural AB and having animal carcasses around the property means the neighbour's dogs are probably going to smell it and come to investigate. Not your fault and not the dog's fault. Not necessarily even the dog owner's fault. That's what dogs do.
In a rural areas most people don't tie up their dogs and most of the time it's not a problem. The lady just isn't used to rural realities yet, although she seems willing to try and be a good neighbour since she actually stopped in to apologise for sending the cops after you.
The lady just needs to learn that if you live in a farming area and have dogs then those dogs will probably drag dead s**t home and leave it on the doorstep. It's a fact of rural life. The lady will get used to it. Wait until her dogs kill a skunk and bring it home - then she'll wish it was just a deer head.
We used to bury dead livestock just to keep our own dogs from dragging it back one piece at a time.
In a rural areas most people don't tie up their dogs and most of the time it's not a problem. The lady just isn't used to rural realities yet, although she seems willing to try and be a good neighbour since she actually stopped in to apologise for sending the cops after you.
The lady just needs to learn that if you live in a farming area and have dogs then those dogs will probably drag dead s**t home and leave it on the doorstep. It's a fact of rural life. The lady will get used to it. Wait until her dogs kill a skunk and bring it home - then she'll wish it was just a deer head.
We used to bury dead livestock just to keep our own dogs from dragging it back one piece at a time.
- Location
- Golden Lake
I heard a commotion in the farm yard one morning and looked out and saw 2 strange dogs killing my Muscovy ducks, ducklings and chickens. I could have shot them but felt bad about it so I fired into the ground near them and they ran off. About a week later they came back - this time when I looked out I saw that one of them had our pet African goose (Lucy) pinned down. The other was chasing our few surviving ducks.
I put a 100 gr .308 Speer Plinker through the one on the goose (who luckily survived). The other ran off and was not seen again.
I later found out that cottagers along the river often had "summer" dogs for their kids to play with while they were at the cottage. Then when it came time to go home at the end of the season they turned the dogs loose. No doubt telling their children that "the farmers will take care of them".
The next time this happened I shot the dogs but not before they'd killed 1/2 my flock.
The 3rd time it happened the dog had a collar. I took it to the owner and demanded that he pay for the dead birds. He didn't want to but I wasn't budging off his front porch until he did. Plus I told him that if the dog came back I would shoot it.
You can call me "a trigger happy arsehole" if you want but until you see dozens of your own valuable birds (some of them were fancy breeds and most I'd hatched and raised myself) lying mangled and torn in the yard you have no idea what it's like to be on the receiving end of feral dogs.
I love dogs and have had dogs all my life - I make sure that mine don't roam off my property.
- Location
- Saskatchewan
Hatfields and McCoys
I do not think you are a "trigger happy arsehole" and actually justified with this situation, however, these free range birds would have been cleaned out by foxes and coyotes around here before the wild dogs found them, this is why birds need a proper run built for them, what did you think was going to happen to them? I'm with Claybuster, the "country" others seem to live in is nothing like the one I live in and for that I am very thankful. Enjoy your feuds.
I do not think you are a "trigger happy arsehole" and actually justified with this situation, however, these free range birds would have been cleaned out by foxes and coyotes around here before the wild dogs found them, this is why birds need a proper run built for them, what did you think was going to happen to them? I'm with Claybuster, the "country" others seem to live in is nothing like the one I live in and for that I am very thankful. Enjoy your feuds.
I do have an idea of what it is like to be on the receiving end. While I haven't had to shoot a dog yet I've come close. A few years ago I had a stray bull mastiff chasing our horses along a fence line and had it gone under the fence and into the paddock I'd have done what I needed to do to protect our animals. I wouldn't have liked it or bragged about it on the Internet but I would have done it. As it turned out the dog was pretty friendly but I had a very direct conversation with the owner when she showed up a few hours later.
The trigger happy arseholes are the ones who just pull the trigger whenever they see a stray dog. You made the effort to prevent having to shoot to no avail. Sometimes these things can't be prevented and you have to do what you have to do.
I live in the badlands as well and also grew up in the middle of nowhere.
If someone openly shot my dog I would walk right over and kill there dog.
Im an Albertan and dont take this mans words as bible. I dont know anyone who would openly shoot there neighbours dog.
- Location
- Niagara Region, Ontario. For now
Shooting a dog for attacking your animals is perfectly legitimate, and I wouldn't hesitate to do so either.
Shooting your neighbours dog for wandering on your property on the other hand is a different story.
Lets compare apples to apples here.
What really chaps my ass is that if a fella releases game birds on his land without a license. He is subject to a fine etc... Yet these people move to the country and think its ok to let their cats and dogs roam free... Big piss off
- Location
- London Ontario
so keep the birds captive (easier to catch and eat that way), and make a sport out of stray animals. "help control the pet population, have your cat painted bright orange and let it run free in the woods to be a target"
- Location
- Prince George B.C
In my opinion, the olive branch is null and void if the police are are called out of ignorance first. This is not a neighborly action. A reasonable person would have made an effort to figure the situation out before resorting to calling the police...it sounds like she insisted on it. I had a similar situation once when I was younger. I had a car for sale parked on the lawn; as I lived with other people, and driveway space was at a premium. A woman came over and said that she had called the city to get the car towed away, but they couldn't because there was no law in place against it. She asked me to remove the car anyway. I told her that I would move the car because I am not a douche, but that I was disappointed that she had exhausted all other channels before just asking. Long story short, they expect you to be a rotten person, that's why they over-react first.
So it's OK to over-react second?
Why not really pull a fast one on them? Be nice.
Think about how you can punish them and screw up their world by being something so unexpected. You might be able to actually hurt them by being a nice person. That would make you feel good, right?
- Location
- London Ontario
So it's OK to over-react second?
Why not really pull a fast one on them? Be nice.
Think about how you can punish them and screw up their world by being something so unexpected. You might be able to actually hurt them by being a nice person. That would make you feel good, right?
"love thine enemy- it messes with their heads"
I had a pastor once with that tattooed on his arm.
LOL. You don't likely don't live west of Highway 22 either. There are a lot of people here who haven't spoken to brothers, sisters, neighbors and former friends for years-- all over shot dogs.
Problem with the bolded statement is that you would be in the wrong and they (legally) would be in the right.
In a sense you are right. None of us would openly shoot a neighbors dog. IF we knew it was the neighbors dog. Most would shoot a strange dog causing problems without a second thought. It's why I try to introduce all my new pups to my neighbors. I keep them on my property but if they get out, I hope the pre-courtesy avoids a shooting.
Another neighbor. What would all the dog shooters say to this traipsing through their yard? My north neighbor's bull came through the fence into my property and proceeded to knock over everything in the yard that could be knocked over -- including some of my livestock panels (pigs didn't catch on), a table saw, my bench rest, picnic table etc..
What did I do?
What did I do?
