Reply #18: Do you know when they are in your pasture?

[MuseRider]

They can be sneaky but often are loud enough when hunting to know. Here is something that we did, it might help if you catch them enough times. I don't know why I did not think to add this to my first post.

We had a large gray one that was out during the day. He would be laying on the drive or I would see him running in the pasture and then there were two. Most times those are animals that were raised by people then let loose. Whatever they are, they were out during the day, well fed looking and not ill with mange. I started to see them come up to the side of my house just under the window where I sit while I am on my computer. Freaked me out because I let my little goats out to roam around the house during the day and my cats are often out. We have some M80's left over that we save for times that we see neighbors dogs on the pond when the ice is getting thin, it scares them off quickly. We threw one out from the deck and after 2 different times we have not seen them back. Just a thought. Fireworks come in handy for the strangest things but since we do not like to shoot animals for any reason, would have to make an exception if one was hurting our pets, we use fireworks. Try it and see if that helps. With 5 acres you may be able to control a lot of it but probably only for short periods of time but that is better than nothing. It also helps to get some night vision binoculars. You would be amazed at what you can see with them on the darkest of nights. Expensive but worth it when protecting livestock.