Criggster

Beware! Setting traps will catch them, but in my experience as a trappersome dogs will howl and bark untill they can't bark anymore. If you go and shut them up then someone will surely here all of the commotion. I have dealt with stray dogs for years. I lived on a dead end dirt road and people threw their unwanted dogs out there, and I had a nieghbor that left their dogs ruuning loose. So, I spoke to the neighbor after a dogs got into my track can. I saw the same dogs running around in his yard. So,I confronted him about it and he told me that two of the three dogs were strays, and that he would keep his dog from running loose.

So, I called the dog warden and when he went to get the two strays the neighbor told him that his wife wanted to keep them instead. That was wasted time. I saw two of the three dogs chasing a few deer in front of my house a couple weeks later. Again, I confronted my neighbor. Ohhh he said,....... I will keep put them up so they can't run loose.Well to make a long story short the dogs were finally laid to rest. I gave him two chances and he refused to comply. Enough said!

sullivt

If this were me... I would do what is necessary to protect my family. You have already contacted your neighbors... the local dog warden etc. Therefore I would take matters into my own hands... but would use something larger than a .22lr. I would use something that would drop them in their tracks (.223, .22-250 etc.). My only deciding factor to determine if the animal is someones pet or a stray would be it it has a collar... otherwise they are open for extermination.