Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we raise rabbits for meat and he has been fed raw components of them. But I agree that it is the adrenaline and the thrill of the chase that they may get addicted to, not the meat. Though they do love raw meat!
Thanks so much for all of the great input! I truly appreciate it. I do not believe he really has a high drive, I think this was a "fun" motivated thing for him. He's never seemed truly aggressive except for a couple of food related incidents when we first got him. Those disappeared after a...
Thank you. I appreciate the insight. I definitely will never leave him unsupervised with the chickens again!!! That's just common sense. He is a really, really sweet dog. I will work with him and keep him away from the chickens for good!
We have a bluetick/beagle hound mix who is around a year old. We got him from the local animal shelter, where he was placed by his previous owner (a hunter) because he did not show any interest whatsoever in hunting.
We have had him since last august (8 months) and he has been mostly...