Texas Gardening: Weather not fit for man nor beast. Let's stay by the fire!, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
There are rules to living in the country also. A friend of mine had some Java Green peafowl like I have in the picture above. These birds are on the endangered species list not cheep. Her new neighbors came by one day and asked if she had seen a couple of Cocker Spaniels. Yes she replied, they are laying in that ditch over there, I shot both of them this morning. They got into her Java pen and killed her cock bird. They were furious and called the Sheriff, but he told them there was nothing he could do and that she was well within her rights. Their layer called her and talked about the details and she heard nothing more about it. They were really lucky that they did not have to pay for her losses. Javas are not very domesticated and are quite wild. Cock sometimes attack hens or will only breed certain ones. She bought all her birds as young young sexed birds and had one cock and five hens and the flock was very happy and she go fertile eggs from all five hens. Sometimes she would hatch 40 or 50 chicks a year. At a price of $300. each, she lost big bucks that year and never found another cock that liked all the hens and produced that much production. People move to the country and think they can let their dog run FEE. My dogs run free and I know if we ever have problems with our neighbors, this may change. What helps is we have predator dogs and we are surrounded by cattle and most of our neighbors have no problem with our dog running down Coyotes. Good fences make good neighbors, so do good dogs.