I had a dog show up last fall during hunting season. He was clearly a bird dog, so I assumed he got lost during a hunt. I kept my birds locked away and kept him and fed him while I looked for his owners. His owners turned out to be neighbors of ours who I like very much. I was happy to return him. A month later he showed back up, this time while my chickens were out and killed one of my BR. The neighbors quickly replaced her with a couple EE (like I said she is a great neighbor) and I have not seen the dog again. However if I ever do see that dog in my yard again, I will probably shoot it and bury it deep in the pasture, I can act dumb if anyone asks :/. The trouble with protecting a dog is it remembers and will come back. I have no ill will against these neighbors, but I may have to kill their dog.
I would not hesitate to kill a fox or coyote...they are not dogs, they are predators that will not only kill my chickens, but they will kill my cats, my dogs, and even a new unattended calf
Surprisingly, not a single hunting dog out here has gone after my birds. Can't tell you how many we've collected and called on. There has been a single hunting dog without a collar out here. Normally, they have radio collars with a number to call. On the rare chance it doesn't have the radio collar, they have always {except for that one, that went back home, we think} had a collar with a number to call. Folks out here are serious about their hunting dogs.
Once we got that pit off my other dog {which we later took to the shelter because it was 'dumped in the country' and killed one of my cats and then became relentless with the others,} it followed my truck a mile down the road, where I stopped at the hunting club and the guys there kept it so I could leave. I think one of the guys there took it home. Super friendly with people- just not other animals.
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