Yesterday my wife and I were out walking one of our dogs and she saw some strange footprints coming from the direction of a neighboring trailor park. I had noticed footprints two days earlier leading from the same direction down along one of our fenced paddocks to the barn where the prints climbed over a fence and left the opposite direction. I figured someone got turned around but left when they realized their error. We are on 45 acres or so and run a farm in addition to regular jobs. We own pygmy goats as pets and make extra money on organic chicken eggs and organic veggies.
Anways, back to the issue. We had just returned from a nice lunch and Cornell Lacrosse game and were walking our dog... My wife was twenty feet ahead of me on one of our trails following the tracks and she stumbled upon two teenagers gutting an animal twenty feet over our property line on the adjacent wooded land. She didn't know if they were armed so she indicated her presence to them and came back to me elaborating on what they were doing. It is not hunting season so I gave her our dog and went over to see what they had and told her to go call the sheriff. As they saw me approaching they bagan to scramble and run at full speed into the forest. I yelled to them as they were running and picked up my pace as I realized something was terribly wrong. My wife called to me and came up behind me. A couple of seconds later, I came upon the steaming bloody and maimed body of one of our sweetest little goats with her entrails spilled over the ground. I immediately removed my jacket and took off after them at full speed screaming bloody murder and that they were fucking dead among many other choice things.
I gave full speed chase for about 1/2 mile when following their sporadic footprints in the melting snow and emerged into the middle of the huge trailer park. I was making so much noise that people were coming out of cracks and crevices all over the place but ran away as i raged toward them. One kind lady indicated who she thought might have been the culprits and I went pounding on doors and threatening to kill motherfuckers. I was out of my fucking mind. After 15 minutes of this and people lying to my face i promised to return and, I ran all the way back to my house. As I got there my wife was freaking out and the State troopers were en route. I took a cruiser back up the trail and waited with a framing hammer for whoever might come back to try and get the carcass. ( Later I would find they had been stealing our organic feed and chickens and torturing them before killing them. They had shot our goat with ahomemade bow and arrows and smashed ber in the face with rocks) I slowly came off my adreneline as I crouched behind a tree and State troopers and sheriff arrived and we walked the scene. They were so livid and disgusted at what they saw that we immediately went to the trailer park and they started doing their thing. Within 30 minutes we had the suspects in custody with a confession from the younger of the two and were en route to the Barracks for a deposition. One guy was 19 with a record, the other his 15 year old brother who looked like he is missing some chromasomes. This fuck would not look me in the eyes and had no remorse and actually flipped out and threatened me and and my wife while being detained at the scene. It was straight out of cops. We found a cage under a tarp with 3 live chickens stolen yesterday afternoon while we were out. We found chicken carcasses all over the place. They have been watching us from the woods for months and casing our shit whenever we left.
Anyways, they older guy is being charged with felony burglary and 3 counts of animal cruelty but he is getting out on bale in a day or two and my wife and I are pretty freaked out because I work 3rd shift and she is home alone all night a few times a week.
I am scared and don't really know what to do here. We are in the middle of the woods 1/2 mile from the road and the nearest neighbor. Troopers say go get a shotgun asap then get a cc and got a handgun for the house.
Is there a small shotgun my wife could use? She is 5'3" and 110 soaking wet. Can anyone recommend a specific weapon? We don't know much about what kinds of guns are out there right now.
We are also looking at handguns for each of us just to carry on our property. Maybe you could recommend something light and reliable with good knockdown capabilities for her? I was thinking of a G22 for myself. If this guy comes back to our house after getting released I want me or my wife to be able to put him down permanently before he knows what hit him.
Thanks so much guys. this sucks.
