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The unmitigated gall of some people is a real head shaker.
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My neighbor has sheep, he is a retired school teacher. This spring we were having issues with his sheep getting out and decimating the deer corn piles, mineral blocks and trampling the food plots. Two week ago they went through 800 pounds of corn in about 12 days. trampled the food plots all to hell and made a mess. I called Dave and offered to help find the hole in the fence. He said "we have looked for the hole and can't find it". I took the Honda 500 out and found the hole in 15 seconds. Dave had "fixed" it with a length of 14/2 Romex. the sheep pushed right through it, like a gate. So I got fence wire, some posts had a couple of friends help patch this fence. Dave and his wife live like slobs and of course being retired they have no time to do ANYTHING right but expect me to figure out their fence problems for them and then fix it.
Today, I was out mowing around the food plots. I can't mow because the damm sheep are eating all the corn. The guys dumped a 4X8 trailer load of corn there last Sunday, it is GONE. I went back got the Honda and chased the sheep out with it. They went to the hole we fixed and seemed flustered but headed down the hill where I could not go with the Honda.
I called Dave, I said "I think they are getting out down by Kathy's pond. He said "Oh, we are letting them out and thought they were behaving". I was incredulous. "Dave, they ate an entire trailer load of corn, you have to keep your sheep on your land and out of our food plots." He seemed surprised saying "we thought they were behaving". Well, they are they are "behaving" they are acting like sheep and going beeline to my food plots eating my plots, corn and mineral licks.
This idiot is letting his sheep out of his pasture ON PURPOSE, ignoring them and expecting them to not act like sheep. He thinks they will be staying on their property when the sheep know corn is piled high only 500 yards away.
Grrrrrrr, this is really bad. The corn is expensive, the sheep are not mine and he is LETTING them out of his pasture to free graze on my land. The messed up thought processes of some people amaze me. Oh, imagine this they are Obama, Biden lovers......
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Sounds like a near neighbor of mine up until recently.
His 3 large dogs roamed the neighborhood, although several of us asked him to deal with it. Repeatedly.
When all 3 of his dogs attacked my dog hooked up to his trolley line, well on my property, (unbeknownst to me)- he came over to see how my dog was, as his had taken a beating. I told him, if I had been outside and had witnessed it, his dogs would have been on the ground.
His dogs started to go missing shortly after that. Go figure.
Quite a few of us, (all his near neighbors, asked nicely.) He was not getting it. Damn If my Buddy or myself (more than once) would be getting threatened by his animals on my property. Repeatedly.
Sheep? What Sheep.
Kinda like "No, I've not seen your dogs in a while."
Not me Ray.
Bruce.
I'm the guy that "Had" an aggresive dog problem.
Sheep? What sheep?
I hope we don't have that trouble this season. We get no pleasure doing what we have to do.
I heard you Ray.
Bruce, sometimes the only way you can get through to people like that, after repeatedly talking to them, is to become an ***. I find it difficult to be civil in situations like that.
Perhaps Dave needs to be presented with a few Bills for your loss, in order to understand. Mention Small Claims Court. Start documenting when they get out, and your losses. Be sure to mention to him you are doing so.
If it keeps up after that, have him Served with papers. Maybe that will get his attention.
Just dang!!!
Dogs chase things, it's what they do. Did you talk to the owners of the dogs and ask them to keep the dogs restrained during deer season? I've never understood this attitude from people over dogs chasing deer. Deer are not cattle or other livestock. I have no problem with someone shooting a dog that needs shot. Chasing deer doesn't make the cut. Until broken from the habit any dog with game drive will run deer. Any dog, mine yours, pure breed mixed it doesn't matter.
Good fences are one thing, purposely opening gates is hard to wrap my head around.
That is wild.
Lazy and letting you repair the fence, scratch your head and mumble. Purposely letting them out to obtain your corn and plots, no Bueno. Time to send him a bill for the feed.
Also, I can't remember what the law says in Ohio, but in some States you can load them up and take them to a livestock auction. Have fun!!!!!
No, Tastes like a sweater.
Too funny.
A sheepherder came,
And put up a fence.
I saw him once,
But I ain't seen him since.
But if it's mutton you're wantin'
We got mutton to sell,
Cause we're cowpunchers
And mean as hell.
just video and report it and have the local lawyer sue for damages and hardships loss of property and food sources have the lawyer tack on his 90% fee ( LOL )
but then again ( green font and in fun no way suggestion ) a fence of dead sheep bodies on the property line would have a visual impact
You say:
A retired school teacher
Already past time for YOU to get the: You know nothing attitude and be a quiet type of a neighbor. ( For example: I do not know anything about any of your missing sheep)
How do I know this sort of stuff? I did not read it (taking care of business and staying quiet) from a book and I was not taught such in a school room. I'm just a good ole country boy and a good neighbor.
That retired teacher is a slow learner and he has tried to teach brainwashed and taught some of our future generations.
We all have seen highly educated people that do not have any common sense.
I'm going to have to stop saying, How dumb can you be, People take it as a challenge.