Horrible day today.
I had just come back from a ride, put the horse out in the field and went down the drive to shut the gate when I heard this awful screeching. I looked round to see next doors dog with one of our hens in it's mouth - tossing it about and shaking it and I go to phone my neighbours to tell them to come and sort it out before anyone answered I spotted one of my neighbours in the lane. So I shouted at him to come and sort his dog out. By this time the dog had disappeared (presumably to get another hen). After a bit of 'where's my do?' 'are you sure it was my dog?' the dog reappears and my neighbour trys to call it to him . He eventually gets it close to him, turns his back on me and walks off. He gets to the bottom of the drive and I shout to him, ' you haven't even apologised'. So he says he'll be back.
While he's away I find another 2 dead hens and one flattened, bloody and struggling for breath which I had to put out of its misery. My neighbour arrives back ( I don't really remember in what order the rest happens) - I show him the 4 dead hens - he tries to tell me one is just in shock. He apologises, says that he didn't apologise at first because he was getting the dog under control (well it's the 1st thing I would have done). Says 'you don't think I did this on purpose do you?', asks me how much the hens were worth (I told him I didn't want his money). Says that the only reason the dog was out was because he had his gate open as he was sweeping up the leaves he also says that it wouldn't have happened if my gate had been shut. I said I expect my animals to be safe on my own property and I didn't think it was my job to keep his dog off my land. At somepoint we had a conversation about where his wife was - she was out looking for the dog (she drives everywhere and there was no sign of her so I'm guessing the dog must have been 'gone' a while).
So apart from being angry and upset and think that my neighbour handled it very badly by not apologising and then saying it wouldn't have happened if my gate had been shut. Also, there was blood and feathers everywhere, I had ripped trousers and blood dripping down my leg and was shaking - he didn't ask me whether I was ok or offer to help clear up). I am mostly worried that the dog will come back and go for the remaining hens or the cats or the sheep. In fact, only last week I found a huge dog poo in the sheep field, when I asked them about whether their other dog had got in with the sheep - they denied it (and I believed them) but we don't live near a foot path and there was no way this pile of poo came from a fox (unless it had a problem!) so I was a bit suspicious....
Anyway, is it worth reporting this to anyone? if so who? From my conversation with my neighbour he didn't really seem to accept that he had done anything wrong so I have no confidence that they will go to any lengths to stop it happening again.