What are the laws on animals on your land?

[angrybear]

I also have this type of issue with the ocupier of land ajoining mine he has around 20 horses and a dozen dogs loose on a few acres of scrub, (he lives 5 miles away) because they have little to eat the horses are constantly knocking down the fence/hedge to get in to my fields, & with the wet ground over the winter they have done a lot of damage to the ground, around 6 of the dogs are left to run free all the time & are constantly on mine.

I have had the RSPCA out they are a waste of effort, the local dog warden tried to help but has no power on private land, and unless/untill a dog "goes for you" you cannot shot it even on your own land, and the horses are classed as "livestock" & while he is responsable for keeping them in it would aparantly take legal action to enforce it.

Re Deer or Pheasants, if on your land you can shoot them as per any legal seasonal or calibre conditions.

[secretagentmole]

If the deer or pheasants are carrying out verminous attacks you may not even have to wait for the right season. My dad had hell with a lazy keeper who moved the feeders close to the garden where we used to live, in the knowledge that the pheasants would find food in the gardens! My father got fed up, had a word with the law (a policeman lived close by), bought a Super Meteor from mother's catalogue (ah the good old 1970s) and shot the beggars! Keeper not very happy! Keeper comes onto our land and accuses father of poaching, policeman (who was a keen gardener and entered competitions for his produce) appears, tells keeper the law and says if he does not get off my father's property with his shotgun he was going to be arrested and failure to move the feeders would mean that the police officer would buy a shotgun and see how many of the damned things lived then!

[suicide jockey]

sorry you can't shoot any animal with a bow and arrow, please don't try