A Journey Through a Different Way - Funny Story Pg. 69

[simba49450]

hi

true im one that dont agree with you but i do know that chicks are hardier than people give them credit. i bought 3 buff orp girls and they were about a week old when i got them to thier container i kept the temp at 70-75 degreese and they were fine, for alot of people it doesnt work for them. but i love your attitude about doing your thing, im the same way on other issues people dont want to hear about, and congrats on the babies.

 

[ruth]

Hi Jean - I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I must have missed that thread if you had one. It's very sad and a hard thing to deal with when it's the neighbors dog.

As far as calling me Ruth, that's my name on here and I only recently started using my real name of Monique - so I answer to either.

Don't worry about not being able to free range like you would like. Most people can't. It's pretty rare these days to have a farm in the middle of no where surrounded by no one so I can let my animals run free and it does have it's risks but hey, so does life.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

No I never started a thread about it I did mention it a couple of times but if ya start a thread ya get the should of dones and I had done all I could and it still happened. And life is like that. I was pretty pridefull of my one roo and hen in there they were so beautiful and I think that maybe I was too proud and so I had to be brought down a peg or too. But you learn from every life lesson and so I learned that my neighbors will stand by me and help me if I need it. They were all as devasted as I was. The week end before it happened the neighbors (hubby wife and 3 kids) came over and picked out 1 roo and 3 hens so they are safe and getting big, and they didn't have time to get the 41 8 and 9 week olds in the pen right next to them so I am also thankfull, was sure a week of mixed emotions.

Hang in there and looking forward to more updates

 

[ruth]

Hi Jean - I know what you mean about "dog killing chickens" posts - they get heated up more than anything and every one I've seen gets locked or deleted. I can't understand why those that don't have anything good to say or condolences to offer can't just leave well enough alone.

I too might have a potential problem brewing. Just came in from putting everyone in coop - the baby Marans always the last to go in and have to be herded in. Was heading back into house when I saw our dog Lucy take off after something. It was the Minicher Pincher we've been seeing down by the road for the past few days. He was under my carport and then ran into back yard. The dogs chased it off. We tried to get it come out of hiding a couple of times over the last week but it always charges at us barking, growling and bearing teeth before running off. Tonight it was right there between coop and carport. I shudder at how easily it could have taken out the chicks or chickens and it wouldn't be hard for it to get into duck or goat pens either. Hubby and I don't know what to do. We were hoping it was someone's dog though we know we don't have neighbors but the hunters are returning to their hunting camps and setting up their feed plots so we thought it might belong to someone in a hunting camp across the road since it was always at the road which is a ways from our home. But seeing it on my back steps tonight, still growing and snarling at us, made me realize we have a real problem and I have to make a decison as to what to do. I don't think it can be captured and tamed and the hungrier it gets the more in danger my free roaming cats, kittens, chicks, ducks, are. We had been warned that since we live in the country and have a big plantation house on the hill, people would be dropping off stray animals.

Now I'll ask everyone with an opinion to respect everyone else's opinion. I'm well aware that my option might be to shoot the dog. I've never visited our local pound and only know I've heard it mentioned in very negative light as being the place to take animals to be killed so I guess capturing it and taking it there is also an option. I truly wish it were gentle and would come to me and would love having a home here but I don't think that's an option as far as the dog is concerned.

I am worried though and don't have a means of keeping everyone locked in till the stray dog is caught because I don't have fences other than short picket fences which the chickens jump daily.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Well , that sure is a hard one, but with a stray ya never know. Those little dogs react with attack when they are afraid, sounds like he/she is afraid of you. You could try live trapping it and check with the local paper about a lost and found section here if ya call they will tell ya if someone called one in. Either way you don't have time to waste. So I guess live trap or shooting is your only option if ya can't catch it. It is a hard one. I'll support ya in any decission you make here.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Awesome pictures Ruth!! Great looking animals, all of them!

 

[cthrash1]

Hi Ruth,
I really enjoyed ready through the pages of your journey today...And I'm sorry for your losses along the way. I think it is great that you can raise your babies the way you do. I am outside city limits(countryish) but have neighbors, one loves the roosters the other I don't know they never say but I do know he sleeps a lot during the day(maybe he uses earplugs). Would love to raise mine the way you do it would be so fun but I can only expand my fencing a little more, build one more coop and that's it, DH is putting his foot down. Remember, the blessings always outway the losses...

 

[ruth]

Well we finally caught the little stray dog. It stormed all day and wind blew and yards flooded. It came up on porch and was shaking uncontrollably. I got it corned in shed and was trying to catch it all the while it was growling and snarling and lunging at me. Hubby comes in with thick gloves on and shovel in one hand and trash can in the other. I asked him what the heck he planned on doing and why not just shoot the little thing? Well, thanks to Rex, we were able to catch her and got her in the tub. As soon as we did she became a different dog. Started wagging tail and licking our faces. At this point she's had a bath, had all the huge ticks picked off her (notice large white one by ear in pic), has had food, water and taken over Scarlett's bed. She's wandering around house following us and meeting all dogs and cats and doesn't seem to mind any of them. She constantly wants to be picked up and held and licks our faces. We've named her, what else, Prissy.

Here she is as soon as we got her inside.

Here she is cleaned up and making herself at home. She cries if you leave her alone in the bathroom.

We're not sure of her age but guessing young. She'll visit the vet when they open on Tuesday. By then I'm sure she'll be settled right in.

 

[Katy]

She looks like she thinks she's at home.

 

[ruth]

Quote:
She knows she is.