SHOCK

Call us shocked!

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I've had some problems with some neighbors.

Minor things since they've moved in.

What they say doesn't match what they do.

Those kind of folks.

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A few weeks ago after a skirmish with some underbrush

being removed between our properties, (and since finding out

that it isn't their property -- it's a utility easement)

from what they deemed was their property, they came

over and fussed and fumed and issued a dire

warning NOT TO DO IT AGAIN!

They also stopped the people I PAID to do the work.

This is the underbrush. It's thick and had lots of thorny vines.

There was problems with bees building their nests,

snakes, and debris falling all the time.

Last year one of their medium sized trees fell into my yard.

Did they help?

No I had to hire someone to cut it up and remove it.

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Anyway....

Last week they came over and asked if we'd

seen their rooster??? I hear their rooster

I've never seen it.

They have an 8 foot privacy fence.

So the rooster was missing. Feathers had been 

found by their cars on the other side of their property line

from mine. But they had seen some cats.

Of course they were accusing the outdoor

cats of taking off with their rooster.

Ummmm....

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I honestly do not believe the cats had anything to do 

with this.

I know I'm being biased with my thinking,

but the cats that were seen were probably alerted to the smell

of the kill. These cats do no go hungry and the chicken coop

has been in existence for over a year.

The missing feathers were over on the other side of their

property.

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I have tried to just not have any interaction

with these people as they are not very likeable.

I imagine they think the same of me. 

I just hope they don't try to do anymore 

to those innocent cats.

Two of them have been shot with bb's.

When I mentioned that fact to them they were

quick to deny it was them.

Strange though that this only happened

after the chicken coops were put up.

But, I don't know for sure it was them,

just like them I have my suspions.

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But, since they have a free roaming cat I was

warning them.

Someone shot two of my cats.

I didn't go over and ask them when it happened.

I didn't go over and insinuate it was them.

Like they did with me.

I didn't go over and ask for assistance.

I just dealt with it.

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If you have a chicken coop,

make it so other predators can't get in.

We have all kinds of predators in my wooded

neighborhood.

Raccoons, possums, foxes, snakes, bears...

I mean it could be any type of predator.

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I know cats could be the culprit, but I doubt

the ones I feed were.