2 dogs Vs His chickens

Not so much fun today for my neighbour!

Two scrawny little dogs, probably terriers, had gotten into his chicken run from outside the garden by digging under the gardens fence and biting through his plastic netting. They where having a whale of a time biting and killing his chickens until i banged on the garden fence as i was passing, before i ran to his front door. I walk there for the vast amount of mole hills which i collect, i remember munty i think saying it was good for some uses. So i bang on his garden fence and out he runs out while i go to the front and yells 'what the * are you doing' "something has gotten into your chickens" 'f##king'ell' "I was just passing are they alright" 'If your hanging around f##k off 'cause you ain't getting your dog back' "Alright, i was only walking here for the molehills. They arn't my dogs i don't keep dogs"

I also told him i hadn't seen the dogs before, it seems me was pretty angry which wasn't a surprise as i think quite a few chickens where either dead or lost a lot of feathers and had gained injury's!

Looks like my first encounter with my chicken keeping neighbour wasn't a good one (Possibly exacerbated by him wearing his housecoat & slippers)

Any way to patch it up?

He may be feeling a bit of an idiot too, so he might be relieved to know you're not angry with him.

The card or note through the door sounds a good idea. Just don't mention the house coat and slippers !

Hope you patch it up ok.

Rob

Went round and had a chat with the guy, he was relived that i actually took action as he didn't hear his chickens getting slaughtered only me yelling at what i thought then was a fox. Thanked me and we had a good natter about what breeds he had.

Well, the two little gits that perpetrated the crime have now been split up. One * got away while the other was caught and handed to the pound. Unfortunately i wasn't quick enough to save a cookoo maran hen and another has 1/2 a wings worth of feathers missing while a third has a huge gash down it's side. He doesn't know what other injuries the rest have. He expects to lose a few more due to infections/shock, so i feel for the guy.

I felt like a bit of a bum, but i pointed out his weak spot (using plastic netting instead of metal) and put him on the way to weldmesh from B&Q (another fab pointer from here).

I'll probably get along like a house on fire now, but the poor chickens! I bet he isn't getting any eggs this week.

Sounds to me like you've done a good job all round    

Hope you've given him this web address as well ...  http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewforum.php?f=3