LK> Paul, by any chance are you zoned for small livestock; chickens,
 Zoned?  We aren't.  When Avondale annexed this area it didn't have any
 zoning that conforms to the nature of the properties.  They still
 haven't figured us out.  The good part of that, of course, is that when
 some bureaucritter says "You can't do that," there's no law backing him
 up .
 LK> rabbits, etc.?  If so, buy a few, then wait for the cats to start
 LK> predating on them then you'll have a =legal= justification for shooting
 LK> the cats that even the "cat lady" can't touch.  Furthermore, if you
 That would get me into the ccr's.  Horses _only_ are legal, other than
 household pets.  I don't want to open that issue -- so far they ignore
 the goats, cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, turkeys etc that many of the
 neighbors raise...
 LK> This works very well for the few sheepers who winter their stock in our
 LK> urban alfalfa fields and have problems with dogs. I know one guy who
 Oh.  I thought those sheep were for target practice...
 LK> got paid 3 and 4 times for lambs and ewes he lost to dogs; made out
 LK> better than if he'd not lost them and sold the wool and meat.  :-) 
 Cool, anytime a agriculture guy can figger out a way to actually _make_
 money off an ag operation.  Even if it has to be sheep or pullin' teats
 or some other activity a real manly man would look down on.
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