Free Range?

[rockhound]

i am not sure about colorado, but in AZ if your dog is bothering livestock they can be killed to protect the livestock.

you need to fence them out. and if your dog goes outside your property to chase livestock all bets are off for your dogs.

[BlasterBob]

Maybe immediately call (phone) the cattle owner EVERY time their livestock ventures over on your property. Try this only after you sit down with him and have a talk over a couple/few beers.

If you have a target range built, they had better not stay across your line of sight when you are ready to squeeze that trigger.

[BlasterBob]

Hope my post did not kill this thread.

[sniper7]

Be a good neighbor and talk to the guy. He has probably done this for years and years and never heard a peep about it. some new guy rolls in and starts demanding stuff and paintballing his cows and things are going to get ugly.

I know if I was that guy and that happened the second a paw hit my property there would be one less dog in the world just out of pure precedence. If you want them out, build a fence.

Being a good neighbor will go a hell of a lot further than pulling anything stupid. I bet if you play your cards right he might even help you out paying for or putting up the fence. I'm guessing he has a tractor and that would make putting stakes in the colorado clay for the barbed wire that much easier. Then it is just a matter of making sure your dog doesn't bother the cattle. And if you have been nice to him, he isn't going to shoot your dog. He can just call you and nip the problem in the butt.


My dads new neighbor went about this all the wrong way. shot his .22 up in the air while I was out on my ATV on property he didn't own and I had permission to be on. I was on the other side of his fence with my dogs running them and his dogs apparently went nuts in his house and he got pissed. I told him I am not on his property and I grew up riding here and still can. The sheriff was kind enough to have a very good talking with him about the situation. He ran in to another issue with another new neighbor who has been very cool to me. The new neighbor is extremely wealthy and apparently they were both in the same business. The new neighbor undercut the other guy so much that the bad neighbor lost his business and eventually got foreclosed on and forced to move! I was happy to see that happen

[BlasterBob]

It'd be a VERY dirty thing to do and I sure would never do it or recommend it but I have heard of one chap who got tired of having his neighbors cattle on his property eating up all the vegetation and ****ting all over the place. Even after numerous repeated friendly chats and then finally, since his complaints received zero attention, he got a power post hole digger and drilled a whole lot of holes in his pasture in the area where the neighbors livestock usually grazed. Of course he "intended" to gradually place fence posts in those holes.....It would be nasty but I understand that it did get the message across and quickly.

[johngraves2]

It has already been stated, but colorado is an open range state. it is the land owner's responsibility to keep livestock off their property. So you need to fence out anything you dont want on your property.

I know quite a few brand inspectors and they have tons of stories of people driving off the road to avoid cows just standing there and they totally reck the cars. no liability falls on the cow owner, all the fault is placed on the driver. best of luck with your neighboor.