[Jacob-list] Dog Problems in Michigan

[Linda]

In Georgia the law says something like you cannot shoot a dog UNLESS it is doing damage to your property.  I consider a 
dog that is not mine and is on my property as damaging my property.  As much as I'd love to, I have no right to shoot 
the dog that stays outside the fence barking all night at my dogs.  But, if that dog ever gets through our fence, he's 
fair and, I believe, legal game.

Linda

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:07:18 EDT,  wrote:
>In our state there is an old law on the books that lets farmers
>protect their
>livestock regardless.  Of course, the young yuppies and policemen
>that don't
>have agricultural backgrounds ignore it and tell us that we cannot
>defend
>ourselves from wandering predatory animals, but a lot of law
>enforcement will
>give you their opinion on the subject and they do not know or care
>about what
>the law says.
>
>The truth is that a person is allowed to defend their property.
>There are a
>variety of ways.  We went and bought a live dog trap to the tune of
>99$ and
>use nice hamburger or anything else to get the animal.
>THEN........it
>depends on whether the husband is at home as to what happens next.
>He is a
>softy.  I am not.  Sometimes, depending on the animal, I return it
>to the
>owner, because I know it got out by mistake.  With one owner, I want
>to be
>able to say that I would never harm his animals, so I trap his dogs
>and drive
>them 3 counties over and turn them over as strays to the humane
>society (They
>are never seen again!).  With other dogs, (I know the neighborhood
>dogs) the
>strays, they simply disappear quietly, when the hubby isn't home.  I
>talk to
>tons of old timers and they all have guns and stories to tell about
>defending
>their livestock.  Basically, a wandering dog WILL destroy livestock.
> Period.
> People that don't own livestock don't care about our losses.  So,
>it might
>be considered guerilla warfare.
>
>cindy j
>
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