A hard lesson learned about chickens and pit bull not mixing well

[sundance]

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Wow. Was that nessecary? I am the PROUD owner of a VERY SWEET American Pit Bull Terrier, who has never been inclined to growl at anyone, BITE anyone, or ATTACK my chicken (who free ranges while I'm outside and has been known to jump on the back of my WONDERFUL PIT! Guess what? My roo lived to see another day.

I tried to abstain from commenting- but I cannot sit idly by without speaking on my bullie's behalf.

That being said, I, too would shoot a dog if it got into the chicken coop or was attacking my chickens, be it a pit or a chihuahua, but I will not tolerate ignorance.

I also have a pitt that sleeps in the driveway with the chickens all around her, and she pays them no attention, do I watch her when they are out No, She has been taught chickens are off limits so she leaves them alone.Sometimes we're gone all day with chickens free ranging and dog asleep in back of P/U marrie

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

I have both a chocolate lab and a pitbull. I keep the lab fence in my front yard, she has about a 150ftx50ft run, plenty of room. We cannot let her out at the same time as the chickens because she will chase them down. Not sure if she would kill it, but I do know from experience the hen will be missing the tail feathers for a while.

My pitbull on the other hand is kept in the house, and we let her out with no leash or fencing. I do not have to worry about her being out at the same time as the chickens, she will not mess with them. Last year it was so cute, we had some very young chickens that would follow her everwhere in the yard. I guess they thought of her the same as they do us.

My point in this is, it had nothing to do with the breed. Simply the training of the dog. Don't stereotype, that is why pits are being banned from cities.

 

[hungryhensfarm]

Once my daughter found out that Mercedez (the pit) may have killed the rooster she was very upset. Although she has not come right out and said so I believe that she is ready to move on and at least give the dog away. Training is a great idea but I'm not sure DD can afford that. I am going over there later to check to see of we can find the rooster.

I had a hard time going to sleep last night because I was so worried. I will post as soon as I know anything. Even though the rooster was my cousin's this little guy made his home at my parent's house for whatever reason. We just love the little fellow and hearing him crow. If he's gone, he's really going to be missed.

 

[hungryhensfarm]

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Believe it or not I do agree with you. My parents have a black lab that roams around out in the yard all day long. With the rooster. She doesn't bother the rooster at all. I think Mercedez should be trained, not put down. Actually, I think she should have been trained as a puppy and maybe this would have never happened at all. Mercedez is a beautiful and loving dog otherwise. She's so sweet and lovable. She just chases anything that will run from her. It's instinct. As I indicated in my original post I realize that any breed of dog can and will attack chickens. It's in their nature to do such things. Even while being playful. I am still hoping that the roo was just scared into hiding.

Please don't think that I'm stereotyping the dog. That's not what I'm trying to do at all.

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

I hope you can get her trianed or into a new home. If I had room I would take her. I can usually train aggressive dogs. I trained our beagle/lab mix who is very agressive and growls at every human possible. He bit my brother on the hand as he was petting him. After I trained him he does not attack anybody. I guess before we rescued him he was beat as a puppy by his owner. Another dog I wanted to rescue but was way to agressive was one of michael vicks dogs. She is now in a pitbull rescue in PA. Any dog can be trained. It takes a lot of time and patience. Maybe you need cesar millian?

 

[babylady4]

Yeah, call the Dog Whisperer!

 

[hungryhensfarm]

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That's a great idea! I think that's what we might end up doing. In the meantime we are looking at purchasing a large kennel. I'm not really big on caging dogs but until we can find a better option I don't know what else to do. I am one of few who actually love this dog. As I said earlier she is very sweet and lovable. She just chases anything that runs from her.

 

[nzpouter]

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more as in quality, not quantity, and where did I ever mentioned lock jaw?

my dogs are trained and not chained all day in the backyard thank you very much... they will stop dead on their tracks when I tell them to, even in the middle of a chase/ fight.

 

[toredano]

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more as in quality, not quantity, and where did I ever mentioned lock jaw?

my dogs are trained and not chained all day in the backyard thank you very much... they will stop dead on their tracks when I tell them to, even in the middle of a chase/ fight.

I wasnt saying you had yours tied up in the backyard.I was making a statement. You took it wrong. Read again what I wrote ..It was simply a statement as to why alot of dogs turn agressive towards people, dogs etc.
People have the dumb idea that Pitbulls have a different muscular set up as any other dog.They do not. It doesnt help the current situation that this breed is in.

In my perfect little world .. new owners of pitbulls, mastiffs, Tosa`s etc should require a IQ test before they are allowed to own such a dog.That would eliminate alot of idiots owning and adding to the demise of this breed.

Dont get flustered.I wasnt talking about your dogs.

 

[trilyn]

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So nice to hear a voice of reason!