Wow!
I moved to the country so I could let my dogs (strays that came up) run free. They were happy until the county paved the road, then the joggers took over.
- So you moved to the country so that your dogs could run free so everyone else should just respect that? And I guess the county should never have paved that road and those joggers should never have used that road?
One filed a complaint and within two days I had the sheriff and backup appear and told me I had to pen them up.
- How would you have handled this? Should the jogger not have filed a complaint? Should the sheriff had ignored the complaint?
They are not happy dogs now, they are prisoners in my yard. They never caused problems with people walking, riding bikes or riding horses, only joggers who stirred up the “chase” response in them.
- So how would things have gone better in your ideal world?
***- So how would things have gone better in your ideal world?***
Never had a problem till the road was paved and joggers started using it. It is not a good jogging road as cars now fly up the hill here at a very high rate of speed. Won’t be long till some jogger finds he cannot jump into the 5 foot deep ditch on each side of the road to escape getting hit. We’ve seen quite a few car wrecks on this road.
Meanwhile, my dogs cannot establish their “territorial claim” and as a result coyotes and feral dogs, coons, which are worse are moving into the vacuum left and killing my chickens.
And like I mentioned, they don’t bother people walking, riding horses or bicycles, only joggers.
Our house has been broken into twice, We’ve had prowlers and strange calls in the night. All that stopped the day I brought in the dogs to run free.
Out neighbors were broken into till they also brought in dogs. The nearest neighbors are 400 yards away from us.
I am very much aware that burglars will call the law to get dogs removed before they hit a home.
I have been forced to increase security measures as a result.
I moved from the city, then the city expanded to get close to me. Bummer. I was here first.
Next some city boy will be calling the law because my roosters crow and wake them.