Not to sound mean, I am a bigtime pet lover and owner. But when a strange dog meanders into my yard and doesnt leave and acts like he wants to bite, I wont hesitate for a minute to pelt him with a BB gun. I have lost two priceless persian cats to wandering dogs. I have 7 dogs,3 cats, 1 pot bellied pig, 1 macaw(used to have two, one died two weeks ago), 11 snakes and 5 turtles and not a single one of them have ever escaped my yard, some have escaped there cages like the snakes though.
"But when a strange dog meanders into my yard and doesnt leave and acts like he wants to bite, I wont hesitate for a minute to pelt him with a BB gun."
I've heard that spraying a dog with a water hose gets them to go away.
Surely there are other ways besides having to shoot them. Try a fog horn, anything....
Turtles? :)
We have one, too!
A really great snapping turtle named "Shelly".