As a child growing up, no one kept a biting dog or a flogging rooster. It was a given.
I have one girl who comes in regularly and that's what our dog does. He wants to play with her so bad, but if he moves towards her to fast he catches a pop to the nose.
I imagine, I feel for you. I am glad you're still here and didn't give up. I made a mistake but I'm not a quitter. I learned the hard way but I learned..
Same. It’s devastating and defeating. But you got this. Im always hyper aware of where my dog is now
That one is tough! We had a German shepherd that we took in when the owners home burned down. They assured me that he was raised with chickens and wouldn’t harm my new babies. As a precaution, I put hardware cloth over the top and closed the door. When I came home, I realized the door handle was a lever type and a quick paw could easily open it. The hardware clothe was lifted up and all my baby chicks were a mid afternoon snack. He never hurt my adult chickens, but those fluffy balls of goodness was just too much to resist. He was quickly forgiven, because he had far too many redeeming qualities. Then, this year, my mother moved down from Missouri, bring with her the hated chihuahua from helllll. He wasn’t even her dog! He belonged to her drunken boyfriend who went to jail for stealing her car and drove intoxicated. I know TMI. Anyway this dog was the bane of our existence! He growled at everyone, marked the house and would poop just minutes after coming inside. Then one day, mom left the door open so she could take a nap without having to worry about him. I told her that my gosslings were loose, but she forgot. The rule was that he was never to be out unsupervised. Well, he killed all of my 6 week old goslings in no time! To say the least, no one shed a tear when mom took him back to Missouri.
Wait, you SHOT THE PUPPY? That breaks my heart. That puppy was just being a puppy, doing what God made it do to survive. It needed to be trained how else to act, not shot! When I first got the chicks, my puppy hated them to. She would have killed one the second she got a chance. After a couple months of training and showing her a different way to react, she is now super polite and I 100% trust her around the chickens. It is their instincts to chase and kill the chicks, they know no other way to act, and it’s horrible to kill it without even trying to train it. And just to save yourself from “heartbreak”. Doesn’t it break your heart to kill that baby dog? Please help me to understand, cause right now I am truly so saddened. I wish I could have given that puppy a home where it could have gotten proper training and love.
