Boonbag neighbor is moving

[Redneck Toadstomper]

We had an idiot and his idiotette move in across the road from us last summer. He also brought 2 dogs that among other things, have destroyed about $1500 worth of specialty nursery stock that we grow commerially. Tried talking to him several times and his response was "SO". Finally told him that I would, as bad as I hated it, put his dogs down. As it turns out, these same dogs had been running cattle. Other neighbors warned him to be responsible. The laws was on his side. If you shoot a dog better be able PROVE it was harming livestock. The law in our county says damage to livestock only. ANY other damage doesn't count. This toad works at a prison and thinks he's pretty tough. He came to my house once and to get tough and got sent home rudely. Tried it with another neighbor and got several free knots on his head to rub. I heard the dog problem got taken care of the "cowboy way". Ain't admitting nothin. I don't know what happened to his dogs. Today they backed a U-Haul up to his front door, loaded up, moved, honked, and waved (1 finger) as they drove away. I think his idiotette was bragging about her IQ again and not really waving.

 

[RKelly]

Just reading that... I'm feeling relieved they are gone

I just wish they were moving to Afghanistan !!!

 

[The patriot]

My brother has new neighbors like that.

My neighbor had a dog. This POS never got used to us. We lived there 8 years, and this stupid mutt never knew who we were.

If I had the sliding door opened, and went to the utensil drawer in the kitchen, this dog would bark insaniley.

I was soooooo happy when the neighbor told us they had to put him down.

Eric

 

[Joe G.]

The law here in CA is that if a dog is on property where there is livestock he can be shot. period. No come back. The owner of the live stock doesn't have to prove anything. We had that explained to us by the sheriff years ago when our basset pup wandered thru the fence onto a neighbor's property and he took a shot at the pup. Only one steer. Didn't matter that the dog couldn't have caught a steer on a bet.

 

[illflem]

Sort of an antique law. I've had neighbor's cattle get lose in my orchard and cause thousands of dollars worth of damage. Neighbor isn't obligated to pay and it's both landowners responsibility to keep the fence up. Guess where I'd be if I shot his cows?

 

[Joe G.]

We thought the law as kind of radical. Sure cuts down on court cases I guess. The way the deputy explained it to us, was that all we needed was a goat to be able to shoot any dog that came on the property. Our dog lived longer than the guy who took a shot at him afterall. He shot himself one afternoon in his kitchen. One less crazy in the neighborhood.

 

[Champane Flight]

Sometimes

My dogs are in the backyard or the dog run except when I take them out to let them run in the praries. I have to watch where I run them as the old mutt has a habit of chasing cows, or anything else that will run. He wouldn't know what to do with it if he caught it and has shown his true colors by turning tail several times after said cow decided not to run. There has been a couple of antelope chases where I thought I had lost him. He and antelope just dissapeared over the horizon. He came back about 30 minutes later with tongue dragging and a look like " Man, thats the fastest cow I have ever seen!" .



There was a little old, very old, mutt that would take a turn around the block every morning. He never bothered anybody and would just sniff and pee. He became a fixture and I would look for him every morning just before I left for work. He was never out at any other time. You could almost set your watch by him. One day I saw two large dogs running loose, one was a Chow and the other a mutt. The old dog came down the sidewalk across the street from them and the Chow ran across the street and grabbed him like a meal, started shaking him. I ran to the bedroom and got my pistol and ran out. The Chow saw me and dropped the old dog and turned on me! I leveled the pistol and got ready to drop this critter and this guy comes running around the corner hollering " Don't shoot my dog!" . After I explained what happened he just said "So" and started to walk away. I told him that a dog with that kind of agression was trouble and if I saw it on the street again I would drop it! He then started to argue with me! Well, my Dad always told me "Never argue with a man holding a gun"! This stupid #$@%^!& had no idea. I finally told him to take his dog home, that I didn't make idle threats and that he was pushing his luck. I didn't get a chance to check out the old dog. But he never came back down my street. I don't blame him.



If you have an animal, you have the responsibility for that animal. It is an animal and doesen't know any better, but sometimes the animal is smarter than its owner. Then you have problems. We have a real wild dog problem around here, people get Pit Bulls, Rottewilers, and other big dog breeds thinking they look cool walking them around. Then it comes time to feed them and keep them. They finally take them out in the prarie and dump them. This is the worst thing you can do, its like taking a dump on someone elses front lawn. Every morning! The dog is starving and attacks cattle and any other livestock. A domesticated dog will pack quicker than a Coyote. And they have NO fear of man. I would like to catch someone dumping an animal... ... ... .

 

[TPCDrafting]

I have to defend my rotweiler and my chow/german mix. They are the friendliest dogs I've ever had. Rotweilers especially have to be trained to be mean. They are mostly used as scare tactics. I know this, I've had 4 rotties in my life and never a mean one.



On to the topic. I'm experiencing a similar situation right now. I have a neighbor down the street who has dogs he lets run loose most of the time. One is a boxer, the other is a pure german sheppard. My folks also live in the neighborhood and Mom likes to walk to stay fit. She has to carry pepper spray with her for those dogs as they charge out after her every time she walks by. She has called animal control several times. Other neighbors have done the same thing. They go into neighbors garbage as it waits at the ends of driveways. One went into my next door neighbors garage and ****** on everything. Animal control has been out several times. The owner is a city cop (we're out in the county) and I think he and the animal control have that buddy-buddy syndrome. I ride my horses by and sometimes they follow. If I could only get them to follow me to a friends house down the street, he live up over a hill and can't even see his house, he'll shoot the dogs for me. I've also tried to get Mom to switch from pepper spray to her 38 spec.

 

[illflem]

Get Mom a squirt gun and load it with straight ammonia, aim for the eyes. I guarantee the dogs will never approach her again.

 

[me4osu]

Loose Dogs

I live in the country, and keep my dogs fenced, because they can't seem to stay in their own 30 ac. yard. I wish my neighbors would do the same.



One neighbor across the road had one that would come at us while we were opening/closing our front gate. He was a chickens#!t though. One stomp at him, and he would dart back across the road. Anyway, I went over to my neighbor and told him that the dog does not scare me, but I have small children and they could be hurt or killed by this dog. He seemed genuinely concerned and even more concerned when I told him that the dog chased his horses. After that, the dog would stay on its own property for quite some time until my wife said she saw him by our house! Well, I waited until the next time he was at the house, scared him off until he was about 100yd. away (but still on my land). Then, I peppered his backside real good with some #8 bird shot from my 12ga. He has not left his land again for the last four years.



Champane

I agree with you about people dumping dogs. It is cruel to the dogs and a menace to those who live in the country. I live about 45 miles west of Houston, so we get dumped dogs all of the time. I guess these people think that "the country people will adopt them". Nothing is further from the truth. I, and many of my friends who live in rural areas, feel that it is more humane to kill a dumped animal than have it starve and get mean.

 

[Rotty]

I have a neighbor who is a royal pain in the %^$^&^*(&! :-{} :-{} He had a pomerainian sp? that bites everybody and did nothing about it. Well this dog thought it could tangle with the garbage man and his truck. Lets see dog versus garbage truck. I wonder who won?

Problem solved. Now lets see, can I get the garbage man to run over my neighbor????

 

[TPCDrafting]

Ill, that's a good idea, and I'll bet she'll do it. I agree, stray dogs can be problematic. But this neighbor is a cop and should know better. I think he believes he's above the law. I respect cops but not pigs.

 

[me4osu]

tpc



Two words: cyanide steak.

 

[rrausch]

My cousin lives across the road and runs some steers and heifers. In the early 1980's a Philippine M. D. , moved some bulls onto the land next to my cousin. Don't ask why anybody would want to keep 3-4 bulls on a little piece of land and not own any cows. I guess it was a Philippino thing! Anyway, the biggest and baddest bull jumped the fence raped one of my cousin's heifers. Once he learned he could do that he kept doing it every time a heifer would come into heat. It was ruining the heifers. My cousin would get the bull into his corrall and call the M. D. and the educated immigrant idiot would take his sweet time getting a truck to come pick up the bull. The last time it happened was the last time! Bull jumps fence. Gets it on with heifer. Cousin catches bull. Calls truck himself. Sends bull to market! Quote, "Bull? What bull?" He did send the M. D. the check tho.

 

[jwdeeming]

To the uninitiated, it does seem unfair. If I'm ranching, and Joe's dog comes and harasses my livestock, I can shoot the dog on the spot. But if my cows get out and trample his lawn, well, according to the "open range" laws, it's HIS responsibility to fence my cows OUT, not my responsibility to fence them IN.



I have been over this several times since we went rural 8 years ago, and it's still true here in Colorado. I've only had to shoot one dog, and most of our neighbors are pretty considerate about keeping livestock contained. And for the most part, my neighbors and I can settle minor livestock annoyances by being civil and courteous to each other. A whole lot of the reason we bought our place was that the only covenants we have are made with a handshake over a cup of coffee.



However, there's one neighbor (there's always one, right?) up on the mountain behind us who may need a cowboy education. Seems they think we all should live by their draconian, city-slicker covenants. They don't like us raising cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, or having two dogs, or the fact that if I feel like it, I shoot deer, prarie dogs, rabbits, coyotes, and clay pidgeons - right off my back deck. He's up there in his fancy log cabin with one indoor cat, on his nice little 35 acres of rock and cactus, and no fence. He also has a nice view of my place, and tells me I have too many animals.



Some day, if he keeps pressing, I'll spend about $50 at the local livestock auction. I figure if I come home with a big ol' retired dairy bull and cut him loose to graze back there, this fellow can find out what it's like to run 35 acres of barb-wire fence on a rocky mountainside.



In our county, they actually had to pass a "right to farm" law, because people kept buying 35 acre plots and building million dollar homes downwind from Bob the dairy farmer, or Pete who burns weeds out of his irrigation ditches.



What did they expect?



Here's your sign...

 

[Champane Flight]

Have

I have a Pit Bull and a big mutt. I have seen people go clean across the street from my house, even though my dogs are fenced or penned. I was worried about my Pit pup being agressive. He jumped out of the pickup one day on my wife. She is a space ghost and didn't notice him gone until she got to her destination. She thought he was gone forever, but when she got home he was in the backyard. A little girl down the street saw him playing with all the kids getting out of school and brought him home. That and he is scared of the little kitten that my wife got. Killer Pit Bull... ... ...



The point is that any breed of dog can be agressive. I have seen toy poodles that are much more agressive than a Rott. It is all in how they are raised and what they are born with. The Chow that attacked that little dog was raised by someone who beat it and never showed any love to it. Not the dogs fault 99% of the time. Its the owners fault 99% of the time.



Had a little peekapoo down the street that would come to my front lawn to take its dumps every day. I finally got tired of picking up the $#%@ and got the bacon grease out. Pour a little on the the offending $#@% and it disapears, usually the offending dog takes it back... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... :--)

 

[NVR FNSH]

Originally posted by rrausch

Philippine M. D. , moved some bulls onto the land next to my cousin... . a Philippino thing! the educated immigrant idiot

and the point of these statements would be? Glad to see some things haven't changed.



Brian

 

[illflem]

jwdeeming, you sure about the open range law? In Montana, which is heavy into open range, it's your responsibility to keep your cows off other's property. It used to be the other way around but the law was changed in the '40s.

 

[rrausch]

Thank you Nvr Fnsh. I was merely specifying exactly which type of idiot the good Doc was. Most Immigrant Idiots are of the uneducated variety (and not all are idiots by any means). But it is unusual to come across an educated one.



He didn't see anything wrong with his bull impregnating the neighbor's heifers, but giving birth so early hurt the heifers. He left town a couple of years later after one of his married nurses (white with a white husband) gave birth to a leetle Phillipino bambino! Yup! Boy were those Catholic Nuns in the Hospital surprised! I think those two things qualify the good Doc as an idiot. And he was educated. And he was an Immigrant.



The Phillipine Islands were under Spanish rule for about 300 years. Long enough for the Cultural interest in Bulls to sink in. Something in the Spanish Psyche demands mastery over Bulls. You can see it in the interest in Bullfighting which is evident in all Spanish countries. So I guess the good Doc was a notch above the rest... I mean at least he wasn't out there on horseback sinking swords into the poor little bulls hearts... at least he was only keeping 3 or 4 of them on a little 10 acre farm-ette. As I recall he didn't feed them too well though. I think he let them starve over one winter and the Sheriff had to come.

 

[Scot]

Originally posted by rrausch

... He did send the M. D. the check tho.

I heard another version of this. Guy took it to the sale barn and left it several weeks until the feed bill got good and high and the bull was to be auctioned off several hours later. Then called owner...