I'm on the other side of this spectrum - to an extent. My daughter (my daughter is 14 and pretty responsible) had let our older black lab out last Monday night. They were playing and having fun. She had been running and got hot and thirsty. She went in the house to get something to drink. While she was in there she got distracted by something or someone and didn't come back outside right away. In the mean time, I was on the tractor working at filling in a trench I had dug for an electric line. When all of a sudden I see someone out of the corner of my eye. It is my neighbor. She said your dog killed my chickens. I immediately apologize to her. Holler at Oreo, scold her and told her to go to her cage. I then again apologize to the neighbor. I say that I want to make it right. I will either give them cash or order new chickens in for them. I ask how many chickens did she have? She said 12 and they can only find 1. I say OK, just let me know. He then (we get along pretty well) comes up later with a hatchet (because Oreo brought a rooster back with her that wasn't completely dead). I said that we had already shot it and buried it. I asked again - do you want chickens or cash? He said chickens. I said, OK, I will order 15 hens, what kind do you want? He said that is too many. I said, I want to do right, I feel really bad this happened. So Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday go by. No word. Friday I'm mowing the grass and I see him out. So I drive the tractor back to talk to him. I asked him if they knew what kind they wanted yet. No, we don't know if we want to do chicks right now..blah, blah...I then look over and they still have 7 chickens 5 hens and 2 roosters. Oreo had kill 4 hens and a rooster. He says we may just have you pay half the food bill, again, I say, OK, whatever you want, just let me know an amount. We then continued to chit-chat for awhile, he isn't mad (she is a bit more of a b.... and probably is though) and just says he should have had the run done because the dog was just being a dog and if she hadn't got them, something else would have...any way...I just want an amount that I owe them so that I can get this off my chest. I feel bad about it and want to make it right. I know either cash or chicks either way, isn't going to be quite right as they were close to getting eggs from them. They had gotten them the first week of March, so within a couple months of getting eggs. I know we were wrong, but I don't think they are doing me right either in changing what they want and then not telling me amount so that I can make restitution.