Last night at 3a.m., Meg came out of her room . She looked out the back door and noticed something moving. She ran upstairs and saw a big dog walking in the back yard. She loudly called for Dad and within minutes, most of us were up. This is what we had been waiting for, a chance to identify the creature(s) killing our pets. I glanced out the window and saw a dog slinking through the yard. Larry, the girls and Sam began an armed watch that resulted in witnessing two big dogs walk all around the animal pens.Within 15 minutes, the dogs both took off to the left and immediately after that, a truck left our neighbor's drive way.The dogs were not sighted again, although three deer walked up the driveway.Everyone got back to bed by 4a.m.
This morning, Larry followed the dogs' footprints and they led to the house of our next door neighbor who lives to the left of our back-yard ,through the woods.Walking through the gully that separates the houses, he came upon the feathers that had been our third peacock, dashing our hopes that she had escaped.He knocked on the door and was told by the woman who answered that indeed, they had two big dogs and had only been renting there for five weeks.Funny, her husband had told Larry that he hadn't seen any strange dogs in the area when he was asked, after the bunnies were killed.Larry explained that losing 7 pets was significant, not to mention the violent damage done to all their cages. He pointed out that we are really afraid that these killer dogs might harm our young children while they are in their own yard.She said that she would like to get rid of the dogs, but that her adult children who live in the basement don't want to and they let them out of the house. She told Larry to do whatever he had to do.Hmmmmm.....Let's just say that those vicious dogs don't want to go for a moon walk on our property anymore.It would'n't be wise.
It most especially wouldn't be wise for us to seriously contemplate this course of action! You know how crazy the law can be, it doesn't have to make sense.No doubt those dogs were just having a bad day ( can you hear me back-pedaling?)!!!!Any way, a great dog is a tremendous asset and an amazing tool for good,like when they save a kid's life or alert homeowners to the smell of smoke and predators (yeah,predators stink.)A BAD dog however is a HUGE liability.It is a danger to society.We really don't want to have bad blood between ourselves and our new neighbors who may be very reasonable people who will deal with this situation in their own way and as soon as possible.Self defense is one thing, revenge a completely different one.Hopefully, our pretty pony will not have to suffer a horrible injury at the claws and teeth of these known attackers while all these semantics are going on.
