When you are in the wrong, it helps to roll over, plead for forgiveness and offer restitution. It is not wise to be rude and callous when someone is telling you that your out of control dogs came onto their property and killed their pet. Free people don’t know how to be civilized with one another anymore so a police state has evolved to apply a zero tolerance sledge hammer to every nail.
My neighbors (4 year old)daughter came onto my property and went up to the dog while he was sleeping and pulled on his ear. He gave her a nip which barely broke the skin. I insisted that we take her to the ER even though I had proof the dog was up to date on all his shots. I told my neighbor I would pay the whole bill, he refused and we settled on splitting it 50/50.
Sara,
I totally agree with your post.
Political Correctness has trumped Common Sense and Civility.
If this happened 30 years ago, the neighbor with the dogs would have walked over to the neighbor with the chicken and apologized and paid for the cost of a new chicken.
Also, the neighbor with the dead chicken would probably have said “accidents happen”.
Can you honestly say you wouldn’t think it funny if someone called you up and was screaming that your dog had given his chicken a heart attack?
This has to rank in with one of the stupidest statements ever made on FR. We are talking here about two dogs that weight less than a cat and they are guilty of barking. The chicken died on it's own without any physical attack on it at all. We only have the owners word that the chicken died of a heart attack. These little dogs cannot be "out of control", it isn't possible.
BTW, I've seen chickens whip ass on dogs the size of german shepards and this guy wants us to believe a chihuahua scared his to death. Once again calling two tiny dogs "out of control" because they bark is about the dumbest thing I have ever read on FR. Not quite, but very, very close.