Today was not a great day! I am a teacher and I found out our school is making a major change which is not good. My wife is a consultant and she was not home today. When I came home I found that I had 2 dead ducks a dead drake and 3 possibly mortally wounded. One of my student's mom is a Vet. She is coming out to see what we can do to help them.
My birds free range in our yard at this time of year. Well our "neighbors a couple of farms away have two big German Shepards that killed one of our barn cats last summer. Now today we came home to find our ducks attacked. Killing my daughter's cat was bad enough but now killing 3, possibly 6 ducks, which provide us with eggs and ducklings for meat.
All 3 ducks are able to walk to varying degrees.
If I see the dogs they will be shot!
My wife plans to watch for them and shoot them as well. They are outside barking at all hours of the night. I had accepted the loss of a cat as we used to have coyotes howling at night and all around. Since this family moved in with their dogs coyotes had not been a problem. Had it gotten My goose as well I would be seeking legal advice. I now will make sure that my birds are only out in the pasture. It also looks like I will be setting all of my duck eggs to hatch some more.
What a day! What does help is that Boris greeted me just like always and that I could get some time with the goslings and 4 ducklings, which are growing like weeds.
My birds free range in our yard at this time of year. Well our "neighbors a couple of farms away have two big German Shepards that killed one of our barn cats last summer. Now today we came home to find our ducks attacked. Killing my daughter's cat was bad enough but now killing 3, possibly 6 ducks, which provide us with eggs and ducklings for meat.

All 3 ducks are able to walk to varying degrees.
If I see the dogs they will be shot!

What a day! What does help is that Boris greeted me just like always and that I could get some time with the goslings and 4 ducklings, which are growing like weeds.