The only thing keeping us from doing anything yet is to see where the damage in the fence is at. Last year, when somebody let the cattle in, it was in her fence. See, the law states that when you face your neighbor, you have respsonsiblity for everythingn to your right, and they take everything to their right. Basically, with her, she has two 40's to keep up, and we have two 40's to keep the fence good on. I've walked ours before, and i know it probably isn't damaged. Her part is in terrible shape, and is mended everywhere. You touch the fence and it falls over. In Wisconsin, if the fence is bad, a town board can force the landowner to build a new one orthe town boardwill have a person do it and send the bill to the landowner. We're checking the laws in iowa to see if this works.If the hole is in our fence, I guess we'll have to take responsibility for it and it's our fault. If its her fault, and she won't give reimbursement(as she probably won't), I'm going to find some Atrazene and make it right.

I really don't understand why we should have to keep the cattle out of our land, as it should be the farmer keeping the cattle in his/her land. The people that own the cows are said to be very lazy,and if it can't be reached by ATV, they won't do it. You'd think with the price of cattle these days one would try to keep track of their cows?I'm really like the shoot and shut up method if it happens again. The cost of round up ready corn and round up isn't cheap either..

I tell you what, I about darn near messed up my drawers when i saw that it was a bull standing there. I had shot the 3 rounds i had in the gun when i saw his cojones hanging there...Needless to say, i didn't waste anytime getting back to the truck. Swatting him with a .22-250 would probably do little more than seriously aggravate him. Then again, he ain't a cape buffalo..just a dumb old cow..