My situation is a bit different. The closest dogs to me are a pair of Malmutes. Over the last 3 years, they have come down and taken 7 of our chickens. I have talked to the owner numerous times. Short version, nothing has been done by the owner. He tells me these are his daughter's "therapy dogs" ... she lives about 15 miles away with her mom (ex-wife of neighbor). She gets these rescue dogs and drops them at dad's (the neighbor). He has told me to shoot them 3 times. But my wife and I agree that would not be the best course of action.
I go out day and night and when I see them, I shoot to miss. As Malmutes, they often have a raised tail and that is a dead give away due to yotes not doing "raised tail" at least not in my experience. But, these Malmutes do not ALWAYS have the tail raised and head on, I might be tough to tell the difference anyway. And if I see any predator within 100yds of the coop at night, I will aim to hit.
So different scenarios require different ROE.
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And BTW all my other neighbors tell me to shoot them, just to show you the culture around here. And the Malmutes have also chased the cattle and blocked them from their protein tubes on several occasions, neighbor admits to seeing that. About a month ago, I suggested that he restrain them if they are not supervised and I have not seen them on our land since, except one time when I think he forgot to restrain, I happened to be heading towards the relevant gate at the moment they were heading out on a "hunt" and I encouraged them to go home and they cut the corner going on our land for a few feet. But other than that, he might actually be restraining them now.
I shoot all the yotes I see that come near the coop (and coons and opossum also ... who probably kill more chickens around here than yotes). But my "war" is with the malmutes, whom I cannot shoot !!
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But I agree, PID with thermal takes a lot of practice, experience and patience. I have 3 OASYS core thermals now and they have great images, but over the last weekend I was hunting in some large fields and with 60mm Mk3 trijicon ... PIDing hogs and yotes at distances from 300-800yds was non-trival. Guys with me had 2x scanners and a lot of preliminary IDs turned out to be false. And I would hear "Joe put the big one on it" (I am Joe and the "big one" was the 60mm) ... I was trying to PID a pig at 400yds and every time we rolled the truck a few more yards, the pig turned towards us (he didn't detect us it was just his culinary process causing him to turn - we did get him). I think I spent 10m before finally declaring PID PIG. So "patience" is definitely part of the game.