LMAO! I know you are joking, but domestic pets disappear all the time out here unless they are taken indoors at night, and we don’t even have bears or wolves-just coyotes, feral hogs, mountain lions, and at times, packs of feral dogs.
Clueless Birkenstock wearers sometimes move here from the city, get chickens, ducks, goats, etc and keep them all mostly unfenced with their domestic cats and dogs. Then they howl when the creatures get picked off one by one by predators. The county has little sympathy-this is, after all BFE-not a burb. But they did put up signs on all the roads warning everyone that a loose dog will get you a $500.00 and up fine-and if it is running or killing livestock or pets, the sky is the limit...
The Comal County officials have also imposed these ridiculous fines on your loose dog after one of them chewed up Grandma years ago.
Texas is a state of MIND.
I was actually using humor to make a point about my Chihuahua. I was tempted to leave her outside all night when we first got her. It was miserable getting her potty trained to use the cat box and I thought of putting her in a pen with a dog house over night. Thankfully she got trained before going to the pen. Good thing I tested my pen design on less expensive birds, as I explain below.
We have had found chicken feathers and duck feathers with no chickens or ducks. We have lost Cottontail and Bugs because of the feral things out at night. It was poor pen design that must be done right. Then, we got wise and built the pen with a solid top and chicken wire that went two feet under the ground and curved outward. It was nice to have fresh chicken and duck eggs for breakfast again.
The real point is the priorities of animal rights people. They would rather animals of the feral nature to pester animals that humans keep domestically. In our neck of the woods, people have been attacked by a gaze of raccoons. The bottom line is, these feral animals will taste our domestic animals and move on to lip-smacking humans. Mmmmmm!