Thank you everyone. DH managed to talk to the neighbours son yesterday, and he's going to call the pound and try to get the'Manacing Dog' label removed.
She hasn't actually been labelled as a Dangerous Dog though, it's the step before Danderous Dog that she's been labelled as. 'Menacing Dogs' just have to be treated as dangerous gods in case they do turn dangerous, which I think would be highly unlikely for her, she's been sulking since yesterday and won't even go near the fence when we take her outside to do her business. She knows she did something really really bad.
The neighbour's son also agreed that when temptation is dangled in the face every day for months on end, even the most placid dog will eventually snap, so he's not blaming her. He actually likes her a lot, as when he and his brothers/sisters go round to visit their mother (who is in her late 80's and almost completely deaf) she barks really loudly a couple of times and that lets his mother know that someone is there to visit her, it's the same for when people come onto her property that shouldn't be there.
According to him the only reason they actually called the pound was because we weren't home and they couldn't get her out of their backyard. She only killed 3 chooks too, which is still bad, but less bad than it was, the found the 4th chook up in a tree last night, completely unharmed.
So, the only thing we have to worry about at the moment is the fines, which we will find out in approx 2 weeks as when DH went and picked her up last night they hadn't even started to process the paperwork.
She's currently confined to the kitchen/laundry, and we are organising with the neighbours to have the fence completely replaced in july/august after we get our tax returns. It will involve having the fence sunk about 3ft into the ground with a concrete base so that she can no longer dig under.
It probably didn't help that there are gaps in the fence currently that allow her to see through it and see the chooks every day.
Also, the local animal laws people don't seem to care about the number of chooks the neighbour has as there have been no prior complaints. It doesn't bother us really about her having them, it's just when she has them in a spot that provided the original temptation for our dog, but we know we can't do anything about it even if we wanted to as what they do in their own backyard is their own business.
Besides, we love the eggs she gives us every 2 monthsLots of double yolkers.
So, thank you everyone for your help, and thank you Kazbah for those laws too, I tried to find them yesterday and couldn't find any reference to them at all. I'll save them in word in case they are needed in future.
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