Fwiw I’m not SSS this dog. If it comes back, I’ll put it in a stall and call ACO, but if it’s chasing I’ll do the first S and call ACO.
Could you put Rory in the paddock closest to the dog’s property? That might solve everything.
I don’t know why people like the neighbor seem to go out of their way to irritate people.
I’m doing two horse paddocks right now, to rotate, and both will be close. Unfortunately the donkey paddock will also be close. But if it jumps into Rory’s paddock first, well… problem solved.
Wishing good hunting for Rory! Hope it won’t be necessary, but it may be.
I really wish people would keep their animals contained.
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Law is on my side, we are a fence in and not a fence out state. Additionally, good laws for loose dogs AND the boundary fence meets the definition of a legal fence.
I simply can’t afford (right now) to do an inset no-climb AND a property line no-climb. If I could, it WOULD be a no brainer.[/QUOTE]
Just adding it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side if your animals are harmed while you are at work, can’t get there fast enough etc.
I have the no climb to fence in AND fence out. A canis would have to be pretty determined to scale the fence-not that it couldn’t happen- and there are much more easily edible creatures around (like cats).
I don’t think 2 sections of no climb is warranted, but 1 offers peace of mind and can be just as affordable depending on how/where you are purchasing.
You may have missed it, but I am doing no climb 
I’m so sorry. I’d bet the reason the neighbors are stand-offish is because they’ve been in trouble with neighbors in the past over their animals getting out.
I have neighbors like this, whose horses used to get out all the time. They couldn’t be bothered to even speak to me when they’d come to catch them. The last time, the man caught one of the horses and put his little girl up on it to ride it home - bareback and just a halter, no helmet or even shoes on the child. Thank God they finally got rid of the horses - in my county they’ll fine you for allowing your livestock to roam - but of course they bought the kids a four-wheeler. I think we were all safer with the horses.
I’m so sorry about the dog. I have an ACD who has begun making regular appearances on my farm, luckily so far it’s in the morning before I release chickens and at night after they’re put up. Apparently he’s been shot before because he flees at the mere sight of me. Otherwise he’d already have had an owner upgrade. I think your plan to put this one in a stall and call your ACO is a good one.
ETA: Forgot to add: I left about ten feet between my fence and the property line, but that was so when my farm manager cleans out the ditches in the spring they don’t run over my fence. It makes a nice little riding track around the farm, which is nice on days when the feral children are running the four-wheeler wide open on the road or during hunting season.
I am actually starting to think that I will put my arena at the bottom of my property and use it as a lane to get to it! Instead of walking all the way around my two paddocks and then down. Bazinga!! Presto change-oh, good thing I’m in the building stages. I have only a couple feet MAX of change down there…
Good Luck
I’d sell that piece of property so fast your head would spin… this is not going to end well EVER
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I’d sell that piece of property so fast your head would spin… this is not going to end well EVER[/QUOTE]
I have to say that is a bit heartless and extreme. Actually, it’s pretty simplistic as well. Like that expression, “Better the Devil you know…”, dealing with a neighbor with a loose dog is not the worst neighbor situation TheJenners could encounter… by far.
You do know she is in the midst of building a new house on this property, right? So if it were yours, you are saying you would stop everything in the middle of building your dream house and just sell because the neighbor’s big dog wandered onto your lot? Really?
I think a few sturdy fences will make this end very well.
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Unfortunately, you have one of the neighbors we all dread. I would fence on your side, inches inside the property line, probably with hot wire (I assume that’s the cheapest), and keep it hot. Then put your substantial fence inside that at least 6’-maybe further, if you intend to get a regular, tractor mower deck. Put no access from their property. I think you’re neighbor to people who don’t care, never will, and if you let them it will be an issue forever.
He just told you he was hooking the fence up to get rid of you.[/QUOTE]
This in it’s entirety. I would not mediate with someone like that, and would keep communications to hello, since they are going to be one sided in any case. You cannot fix anti-social and ignorance and you will just make life much more difficult if you try.
Ran into the former owner (wife-half, very gregarious, adore her and wish they were my neighbors still) at the post office Tuesday.
New neighbors apparently had something go hinky with the well that is an easy fix by pushing and holding a small, semi-hidden, button. They call and ask the old owners for assistance, they say “sure be there in five min” and drive over. Sit at the well in a bright red pickup for a while, husband gets fed up and does the well thing, they sit another 15 minutes. They finally drive over and the new neighbors are just…at home. “Oh you wanted us to come down?” Lovely. I also learned that the new neighbors had two pigs. HAD. They put them in a pen, pigs pushed out and old owners saw them on my property… New peeps finally notice they have no pigs, spend hours looking for and shooing home pigs and put them back in the same pen. No luck relocating said pigs since, and this has been a while.
Not planning on selling but thanks :lol:
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Ran into the former owner (wife-half, very gregarious, adore her and wish they were my neighbors still) at the post office Tuesday.
New neighbors apparently had something go hinky with the well that is an easy fix by pushing and holding a small, semi-hidden, button. They call and ask the old owners for assistance, they say “sure be there in five min” and drive over. Sit at the well in a bright red pickup for a while, husband gets fed up and does the well thing, they sit another 15 minutes. They finally drive over and the new neighbors are just…at home. “Oh you wanted us to come down?” Lovely. I also learned that the new neighbors had two pigs. HAD. They put them in a pen, pigs pushed out and old owners saw them on my property… New peeps finally notice they have no pigs, spend hours looking for and shooing home pigs and put them back in the same pen. No luck relocating said pigs since, and this has been a while.
Not planning on selling but thanks :lol:[/QUOTE]
The whole saga is the kind you shake your head and all you can say is, “you can’t fix stupid” and hope they won’t do too much damage before it catches up with them.
That settles it. You’re going to need one more (bigger) donkey.
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That settles it. You’re going to need one more (bigger) donkey.[/QUOTE]
Another donkey for TheJenners? What a TRAGEDY! :D:winkgrin:
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Weird… I have NEVER heard of this place. Not a whisper. Nor has anyone mentioned it to me. And I don’t recognize the name in the Contact Us tab either.
Regardless, no more mouths!! Not until PMI drops off at least ;).
Small update First of all, ACO has talked to the neighbor about the dog, and AFAIK, it has not been loose in more than a month. Yipee. Also, he did install hot fence, so no more bovine trespassers (he laid hot wire on top of the hot braid? not sure why since the braid is set up to be hooked up to a charger, but it’s there and now it pops when it rains and the wires are already charring, so it’ll break soon…). A neighbor down the road had a larger husky that was jumping a 7-foot fence and trying to eat neighborhood goats, which I also photographed in the road in front of my property before getting in the car and trying to follow it home to assist with ACO. That husky has been rehomed (into the city, my jurisdiction) where it has continued to get loose and run home, and has now been rehomed again… I suspect actually PTS.
My fence posts are in, and I went with an 10-foot lane between my fence the property fence for the horses, and 2 feet between the donkey paddock and the fence so I can weedeat between them. It would have been too narrow otherwise, but this does keep the cows off my fence.
My only gripe now is I think the neighbor thinks the fence has to pop in order to be on, or that means it’s working?? Anyway, it is loud as hell from over by his house (~530 feet from my house) and I can hear and SEE it popping from in front of my garage. That will get old in a hurry, in fact already is, but I see absolutely no way of communicating it to him. It’s about 20’ from his house so maybe he’ll get tired of it eventually? I may have to walk over with cookies when I move in later this month and bring it up, like “man that’s loud, doesn’t it bother you?” sort of way.
Oh yes, moving in later this month!! 
Driveway is going in Feb 20 and I may go ahead and move the RV over and park it there while they finish inside, use the bathroom and shower in the house but sleep in the trailer. Trailer park life is old beyond belief.
That’s a good update. I think moving over to the house, and just sleeping in the trailer sounds like a great idea, plus you’ll save the rent at the park.
If you want to use that strip, put up your own very hot, extra tall electric fence a few inches away from their fence. Then you can still weedwhack to keep it clear. And add off set insulators on your side to keep your horses from trying to sniff their horses. Andyou make it tall so there is no ability to put their heads over to bite each other.
I have 1,000ft of arsehat neighbor and I had a woven fence put up 8ft from their fence and an 8ft gate to get in and out. It is technically our fence and we own .5acre of ‘their’ fenced paddock, but the previous owner probably let them ‘take’ it and we can’t try to get it back because of adverse possession, been over 15yrs, so we’re screwed. Really should of done better research before buying the land…
Their place is for sale. Hoping nice people move in…
