Cheryl Myers, a Kingston resident, said she has been dealing with her neighbor’s dogs causing mayhem for more than 18 years. Even though this has been going on for years, the weekend before Christmaswasthelaststraw. The pack of dogs killed 15 of her chickens, some of them were high-value birds.
“Some of them were mutt chickens,” Myers said in a KXII interview. “Some of the were a part of a breeding program for dinosaur chickens because they get very massive and it takes a lot of work and money to raise them up to a certain size.”
She said the dogs tear through the lattice and chicken wire she has surrounding her hen house and chicken yard.
Myers said the dogs always leave a trail of their carnage that leads back to the neighbor’s house and has repeatedly asked for the neighbors to fence their dogs, but to no avail.
“The dogs always leave a trail of feathers, animal body parts and fur and that trail always leads right to my neighbor’s yard,” she said. “I have stormed down to the neighbor’s house repeatedly andseenthecarnagethedogs leave all over their yard, plus seen the dogs with blood all over them. These people have refused to do anything about keeping their dogs on their own property.”
Myers said that the dogs harm more than her chickens.
“They chase after my goat until she aborted her kids, and they chase my disabled horse at night, too, leaving bite marks all over his legs,” she said. “The dogs surrounded the tent my friends were sleeping in one night, right here in my own yard, and were growling and tearing at the tent.”
When Myers heard the commotion, she ran the dogs off, she even had to kick one in the face to get it to leave.
Myers said that how law officials handle the situation adds to her frustration.
“Marshall County has no laws in place for rural areas in regards to dog owners containing their dogs,” she said. “I have called the law so many times and they said there is nothing they can do about it, except talk to the neighbors, and it never does any good.”
She said this last time, they “didn’t even bother to show.” She said the deputy told her that their hands were tied, unless someone was actually harmed.
Myers said that since state law takes precedence over county law, something needs to be done. She said she questions whyMarshallCountyis allowed to be so blasé about the matter and “ignore state laws and statutes.”
Myers lives on Magnum Road and said she plans on stirring up a “hornet’s nest” by contacting anyone who will listen. She plans on contacting the Marshall County Commissioners, local and state law enforcement, The HumaneSociety,theASPCA, newspapers and local TV stations until something is done and the dogs are taken away from her neighbors.
Myers said her greatest worry is that the dogs have become so blood thirsty that they won’t stop at killing animals. She said she’s hoping that someone will step in and take the dogs before the pack hurts somebody.
“Hopefully, it will be done before these dogs get ahold of a child, because they are becoming very blood thirsty and there’s nothing more dangerous than a pack of blood-thirsty dogs,” she said. “This has all cost me a fortune in animals lost and cost me a good portion of my livelihood. The next loss could very well be the loss of someone’s child.”