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Look around and find where the dog travels on trails he must have some place he patrols regular. Next buy some of that green twine like walmart sells in the garden section OR another kind that breaks easily. Next look up how to make a snare and how to set one up do it and instead of tying it off to something get a can that has a lift tab that stays on the can when lifted up. Tie the loose end to the can and have the snare have about a 2 foot long end on it where it ties on the can. Next put 10 or so small pebbles in the can to make it rattle good and loud. The dog will go through the snare and it will go around its neck and rattle as it drags it behind. This will send it running back home and if it catches on something it will break and not hurt it or kill it. I have used this for over 40 years and never injured a dog and after a time or two they won't run on my land. People think they can let their animals run at will when they move to the country and it causes a lot of problems. This is one of the ways I handle them.....
I rep'd you for the good advice, but I prefer the easier SSS method.
Well update:
For months now, I've watched this dog show up on my game cameras placed at random locations on my property.
Every time I'm there the darn dog comes around barking at me as if I were on his turf.
But yesterday was the final when this dog barks and follows me all around my property. It wouldn't give up trailing me.
I returned to the owner's house and informed him how his dog roams about freely and follows and barks at me on my property.
The kicker is that I watched for some 20 minutes as the owner and his wife unsuccessfully tried to call their dog in. They were clearly frustrated with the dog's disobedience to their calling.When I last saw them the dog was walking away from them as they pursued it up the road.
I did tell the owner that I spoke with the sheriff's department who advised me that dogs are not allowed to roam off the owner's property.
Well update:
For months now, I've watched this dog show up on my game cameras placed at random locations on my property.
Every time I'm there the darn dog comes around barking at me as if I were on his turf.
But yesterday was the final when this dog barks and follows me all around my property. It wouldn't give up trailing me.
I returned to the owner's house and informed him how his dog roams about freely and follows and barks at me on my property.
The kicker is that I watched for some 20 minutes as the owner and his wife unsuccessfully tried to call their dog in. They were clearly frustrated with the dog's disobedience to their calling.When I last saw them the dog was walking away from them as they pursued it up the road.
I did tell the owner that I spoke with the sheriff's department who advised me that dogs are not allowed to roam off the owner's property.
Odd thought probably, but have you thought about
taking the dog in and give it some training and love?
Dog obviously likes hanging around and this way you turn it
into something good for all parties, especially the dog.
Odd thought probably, but have you thought about
taking the dog in and give it some training and love?
Dog obviously likes hanging around and this way you turn it
into something good for all parties, especially the dog.
Yes, that is an odd thought.
Dogs that hang around are not necessarily showing affection for the person whose property they invade. We have this going on with two dogs belonging to a neighbor. The dogs run here while chasing wildlife. We rebuke them but they apparently are either very dumb or very stubborn about getting THEIR way on OUR property, because they come back.
They have plenty of their own acres to run on, and we do not welcome them. They also dig, which causes damage. Two dogs constitutes a pack. When the neighbors moved in, I only heard one dog early on. The invading and chasing was not a problem at that point, only after a second dog got brought in.
Odd thought probably, but have you thought about
taking the dog in and give it some training and love?
Dog obviously likes hanging around and this way you turn it
into something good for all parties, especially the dog.
No I haven't and won't think of spending my limited time there trying to train 'and love' on someone else's dog so it will hang around more on my property.
Wouldn't your hunting interfere with the peace and quiet of the neighborhood? How can you legally shoot in a neighborhood? That aside, dogs shouldn't run loose and animal control should take it away.
I used the term 'neighborhood' loosely but it's not urban or suburban; it's rural Georgia where it's not uncommon for folks to hunt on their land.
Hunting has always been legal here and gunshots can be heard anytime esp during hunting season. Hunting is a form of recreation and deep seated part of the culture.
If you don't fish and hunt here, you're the odd one.
I used the term 'neighborhood' loosely but it's not urban or suburban;
it's rural Georgia where it's not uncommon for folks to hunt on their land.
I bet it's not uncommon for folks to let their dogs run loose pretty regularly too.
Maybe even all the time as the 'norm'
In all this back and forth... have you spoken to any of the people who have been there
for the years or decades before you decided to grace them with your presence?
Learned anything about how they've been getting along without you?
over here if the dog is worrying livestock the landowner is within his rights to shoot it, I know at least one person this has happened to, his fault not the dog's but the dog paid the price.
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