Thanks everyone for your heartfelt words. Having just recently joined this community, I've been overwhelmed by the kindness and compassion everyone here has for each other. Your responses have really helped me through these past couple days. It's been a really tough week.
I'm devastated to report that Miss Peach was attacked and killed by one of our Neighbor's dogs earlier this morning. A VERY thorough reflection written in this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=539179
Please read it. Writing everything out really helped calm me...
This is a pretty lengthy post, but after the hell I've gone through today, I think this will really help provide some closure:
Soooooo, over a year ago, my girlfriend and I went on a picnic by Blue Marsh Lake. Had a bottle of wine, enjoyed the day and on our way home, we stopped at this random...
Haha, yea I'm just not sure yet how to handle this. Everyone feels bad for the dogs now (just my parents), but my brother and I were out there the first time when they attacked Willis, and there was no mercy. Their response was: "Well they're bird dogs, it's their instinct" ... Ok, dually noted...
So it just dawned on me that you guys would probably really enjoy this. I made and entered it AXE commercial to a MOFILM contest for London's BFI Film Festival. AXE was looking for a fresh new commercial that differed from their usual ads ... something that was smart, witty, and appealed to both...
I'll just copy and paste the description I typed up for the youtube video:
Here's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmJE9uVdgAk
So I finally let the duck (Willis - who's not even fully grown yet) free roam with my chicken (Miss Peach). We have two brittany spaniel dogs (known for being...