Moronic neighbours

[sxereturn]

Anyone ever dealt with idiotic neighbours? Just had ours giving us a bit of lip because HIS dogs are trying to dig under the fence to get to our 3 chickens. His excuse is that his dogs have never dug until the chickens were there, so therefore it's our problem to make sure his dogs don't get out? Obviously the law (and commonsense) is on our side, but they could cause lots of dramas for us, so how do we go about minimising conflict but not giving in to sealing the entire perimiter of our house to stop other peoples animals coming in?

[johnny]

Firearms tend to minimise the conflict rather instantaneously.

[|Matt|]

Hmm, an invisible electric field around the chicken coop sounds good. If he complains, simply say that the field never caused problems until his dogs were there.

[Tristan23]

Firearms tend to minimise the *immediate* conflict rather instantaneously.

Amended...

[sxereturn]

The shitty part is that we have got on well with them since we moved in 18 months ago. He's a really fat jolly Scottish guy who is normally a good bloke, but he just sort of switched this evening.

[conor.1]

put chicken wire behind the fence so when they dig under they go into wire. i once had a idiotic neighbour, a couple of doors down. the boy used to climb over the train tracks, then climb up oover the power pole thingos. that counts as moronic, and one day he fell, and now he has a plastic leg.

[arpit]

Ah yes, just another dog owner who refuses to take responsibility for the actions of their pet. I suggest you invite him over for tea or a beer and discuss the matter like gentlemen. Hell, Invite him over for dinner. Once he sees your kids he'll appreciate that you are a real person rather than just an annoyance.

Sure, you've done nothing wrong and shouldn't really need to spend two dollars to buy him a beer, but as you said, he could cause quite a few problems for you down the track.

[leitch]

Just plant a couple of your snakes in his dogs' beds....

[BM Epic]

Put pepper down where the dogs dig,they will sneeze,but soon learn that digging isn't worth it!
I am not sure if the firearms were a joke or not,It's probably not a good idea(escalation of problems will ensue very quickly with firearms involved).
Anyhow,try the pepper,it works for most dogs,but also talk to your neighbour and sort the problem out sensibly,it's the best way!

[tu plang]

Once he sees your kids he'll appreciate that you are a real person rather than just an annoyance.

A keen grasp of the irrelevant

indeed. .

[Benzy]

You can buy bitter spray from your local petshop which most dogs will stay away from. Just spray a shit load around the area the dogs are digging. Doesn't harm the dogs or anyone else either...

The other alternative would be to buy bigger dogs or pack thereof which patrol the fence-line and sort the problem out for you...

[NCR600]

sXe, yuour a herpetologist. Can't you just borrow a Komodo Dragon or a big Anaconda?

[Ty]

Just plant a couple of your snakes in his dogs' beds....

I'll second that.

You'd be the last person i'd expect to have issues with domistic animals bothering you.

[sxereturn]

The problem is they know about what we keep here. Despite the fact that all the animals we own are legally obtained and we have permits for them, the last thing we need is unnecessary attention. If they didn't know, the dogs would have been croc food ages ago...

[fleshbone]

Well if they get on your side of the fence,say it was self defense when the cops come over because you killed the neighbour and not the dogs.Or in a real situation,boot the crap out of the dogs.

Oh i forgot to mention,yeah i do,at times.The fools mow our bit of lawn,they have dogs too.When ever i open the side gate there dogs go ballistic.I've seen the owners stand there and watch em barking at me.I usually like to yell back.Or make weird noise,though i know have one of them dog whistle things.So i make em go nuts at night,it's the only time i here them telling the dogs to shut up.

[Vicious_Fishes]

move the chooks to somewhere else and put some fuckoff big nasty snakes/crocs/etc there, then when they go under the fence courtesy of his dogs freshly dug hole and come back with said dogs inside said snakes, say it was his problem to stop them...

[daever]

as mentioned previously pepper and stuff like that that you lace in the dirt. also chilli powder works too. Try to get the dogs use to the chooks too... Most of this is the scottsmans responsibility btw, sometimes old people are stubborn it seems and can't ever lay blame on their dogs because theyre the only living things that will put up with their stories and watch murder she wrote with them.

I would tell him to eat some cement and harden the fuck up and use a bit of elbow to discipline his dogs and don't come crying to you when loliepop and princess are being difficult.

[alexMc]

I have insane neighbours always fighting with his parents at terrible hours in the morning telling his parents they are f*n c*ts and everything else you can imagine, he is on drugs as i've heard him admit it, should've heard them on christmas eve, going off the worst i've ever heard, threatening to stab his dad and what not, I'm surprised the police didn't turn up

[Stackerz]

I'm surprised the police didn't turn up

Why don't you call them yourself? You might be able to get them to calm down a bit? :o

[arpit]

indeed. .

I suppose you'd have preferred it if I suggested razor wire and bear traps?

[tu plang]

I suppose you'd have preferred it if I suggested razor wire and bear traps?

Well given that sxereturn doesn't have kids and is not a kid himself (if you meant you're kids) razor wire and bear traps would probably be more easily sourced.

Did wikipedia say that sxereturn has kids?

[Angry Atheist]

The only option to use if the diplomatic process with a baseball bat hasn't worked is to get one of those high frequency dog repellant noise-maker-thingys. They come in handheld version for personal safety, or you could buy (or build) one that mounts on the side of a building.

The industrial strength types come with a tweeter about the size of half a housebrick. Don't go smaller. Since the tweeter/siren thing is wholly directional, just mount it under the eave and point it directly at the middle of their yard. Avoid any barriers to the sound (trees) and avoid having point in the general direction of your chicken coup. I do not know if chooks are sensitive to high freq. sounds like dogs are, so get advice with that.

You could have it going constantly to annoy the dog or play it smart and have it connected to a movement sensor of some sort. AFAIK, typical PIR sensors don't work well with sunlight outside.

CAREFUL!! Don't switch it on and put your ear next to it to try and hear it the squeal. Even though you cannot hear it, your ear drum is still moving from it and thus, can be permanently damaged from it (with decreased sensitivity).

You could use chilli/pepper/ant rid powders, but then you have wind blowing it all around and could affect humans as well.

Hope this helps.

[dcrofty]

You could have it going constantly to annoy the dog or play it smart and have it connected to a movement sensor of some sort.

Bit rough to torment the dogs when its the owner thats the problem.

[R33F]

Just plant a couple of your snakes in his dogs' beds....

sXe, yuour a herpetologist. Can't you just borrow a Komodo Dragon or a big Anaconda?


I would be thinking that letting a couple of snakes or a dragon loose would not be particularly good for the chickens health - although after they have been consumed by the snakes and the dragon - the neighours dog(s) might quieten down a bit ?

[my_bike]

sxereturn You have a crocodile? Because if you do do they eat allot or just lazy.

I suppose you'd have preferred it if I suggested razor wire and bear traps?

Pfth according to the "BORAT TOURISTIC GUIDINGS TO GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN" its not RAZOR WIRE its electric fence and instead of BEAR TRAPS its Jew traps.

[tnankie]

Firearms tend to minimise the conflict rather instantaneously.

I am also in favor of shooting dogs that attack your livestock/animals.


though discharge of a firearm in built up area is probably a crime....

[dcrofty]

though discharge of a firearm in built up area is probably a crime....

Actually unless its changed recently there is nothing in the NSW Crimes Act that states you cannot discharge a firearm in a built up area. No distance restrictions or anything.

You just need to be able to prove in a court of law that it was conducted in a safe manner.

NSW only mind, that's the only one I've had experience with.

[tnankie]

right, shoot the buggers then.


It might be nice to tell the owner that you will shoot them first....I know thats how we sorted out the dogs attacking our sheep. (told the owners that they would be shot next time the dogs entered our property.) After that their dogs were properly contained.

[Regan of Gong]

Yeah well our neighbours made us paint our wall that faced their house. Just because the old lead paint was peeling...