*hic*
village idiot :D
If you lived with your dog(s) opposite an unlived in property and had been used to let your dogs roam freely through the yard and land and/or had been used to walking your dogs alongside the property and letting them run freely in the fields would you consider it the responsibility of the new owner to take steps to make the fencing dogproof to keep dogs out or your responsibility to maintain control of where your dog roams?
I've just moved in and been a bit horrified to be told by a neighbour "You want to keep those chickens locked up, my dogs will be in your yard and have them" and by another that the local dogwalkers are expecting me to fence my land sufficiently not just to keep my sheep in but to keep their dogs out as they are all used to letting their dogs on it. There are no rights of way across the land but there are roads along the sides. The dogs that have been roaming in the yard have to cross a road to get to it!
I've just moved in and been a bit horrified to be told by a neighbour "You want to keep those chickens locked up, my dogs will be in your yard and have them" and by another that the local dogwalkers are expecting me to fence my land sufficiently not just to keep my sheep in but to keep their dogs out as they are all used to letting their dogs on it. There are no rights of way across the land but there are roads along the sides. The dogs that have been roaming in the yard have to cross a road to get to it!