Captured a Vicious Predator in Our Perimeter Fence Today (Pics)

[Happy Chooks]

What a little cutie!

 

[loanwizard]

I'd have taken that dog to add to the menagerie around here. I have a blue tick beagle and she sure looks a lot like it, but hard to tell size on a puppy. Sometimes dogs get away from their owners. My neighbors call me first if an animal is found. That said, my beagles are allowed to run. They run all day and sleep at the farm at night.

 

[Cetawin]

I'd have taken that dog to add to the menagerie around here. I have a blue tick beagle and she sure looks a lot like it, but hard to tell size on a puppy. Sometimes dogs get away from their owners. My neighbors call me first if an animal is found. That said, my beagles are allowed to run. They run all day and sleep at the farm at night.

Yes dogs escape their owners grasps once in awhile, heck mine has taken off chasing a deer BUT my daughter and I were right behind me to catch him and bring him back home where he belongs. He does not belong running around on the property of others regardless of what he is doing there.

A serious question for you...do you love your beagles? If so, why do you allow them to run? As a dog owner they are your responsibility and part of that is to protect them and secure them on YOUR property. To allow them to run in my opinion is neglect and displays a lack of dog ownership skills.

Good thing you do not live near me because strays and dogs that are not mine are shot on my property, just like any other predator. My animals have the right to my protection on this property and they get it. Dog owners think it is okay to let them run and never think that they are not the same animal that they are at home, then when you shoot them their owner screams about how horrible you are. How horrible is the owner for not keeping them safely at home?

Nuff said

 

[Mattemma]

Awwww what a cutie. I would AC the dog and let owners pay a retrieval fee.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

A close neighbor of ours has this same breed of dog and was telling us just this past Sunday how his escaped from it's pen and he went in search into the valley to find it. He never did. A few days later he had a visitor show up saying, 'You're dog killed my favorite chicken'. If you knew Joey the way he tried to imitated her voice would have you ROFL! She had locked the dog up in one of her pens knowing it probably belonged to him. He offered to pay for the chicken and asked her how much she wanted for it. Again her reply was 'You're dog killed my favorite chicken' but she refused the money. She's another neighbor of ours who lives on the other side of the valley from us. He couldn't understand how anyone could have a favorite chicken, LOL This is when we tried to make him understand how 'YES" you can have a favorite chicken!!! We then went farther and told him we'd set him up with a few chickens so he'd see how much fun it can be to have them. Which he refused, LOL. We have two roosters we'd love to find a new home for. Or for a better term, PAWN OFF! Oh well, guess we need to come up with a plan 'B".

There is fourteen different families and we all live in a big valley but we all try to keep peace among ourselves. Sometimes it's hard though!! Long story short she gave him back his dog and life is back to normal. It feels like we live in GOOD OLD MAYBERRY!

 

[speckledhen]

AC does have the puppy. And she has good adoptability. The local paper comes out twice a week here and runs an ad from animal control with pictures of new available dogs. I feel she will find a home if no owner claims her.

No one came to my place looking for a missing dog. If mine got away from me, we'd be canvassing the n'hood searching for her until we found her, but in almost 30 years of owning dogs as an adult (we had Dobermans as a child and surprise, surprise! We were usually the only folks who had a good fence, complete with height extension so they couldn't jump over), we never lost track of one dog, not once.

If she had been an adult who came baying across my property and my chickens were out, I would have yelled for my DH to bring his gun, not just come help me catch it. See my signature line if you haven't already.

As far as compensation, the nextdoor neighbor during the last incident said something about if his dog killed one, he'd pay for it. I wanted to say, well, you idiot, some of those hens have been around here longer than your stupid dog has been alive, so I'm more attached to them than you are to that roaming mutt of yours. They know their names when called than he does, as witnessed by the number of times I hear them yelling it down the hill. Of course, that guy wouldn't get that. He's clueless.



Cetawin, that Rottweiler you just dropped in your barn who growled at you? We'd have done the same thing. Let me know if anyone ever comes looking for her . I can't believe no one has shown up trying to find her yet(well, yeah, I can believe it, but still...). I wonder if it's the same guy who owned the last Rottie that sheriff's deputy shot at your house not long ago. At least, this one didn't get any chickens.

 

[Cetawin]

Speckledhen, not a whisper from anyone about the Rottie, real shame too because she was a beautiful dog that should have been at home being loved and cared for, not threatening me in my barn.

 

[jjakaus]

My super cute beagle has killed about 6 of my chickens over the past few weeks. If it weren't for my kids, he would be gone!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

My super cute beagle has killed about 6 of my chickens over the past few weeks. If it weren't for my kids, he would be gone!

We've had very good luck training our dogs with an electronic training collar (remote shock collar). You put the collar on the dog, then get comfy and watch. Dog chases chicken, dog gets shocked. You have to be a bit vigilant and make sure that you hit that button every time for a while, but pretty soon they stop chasing hens. My dog wears her collar all the time when we're outside, because we also use it when she goes onto the neighbor's property or digs in my garden.

 

[speckledhen]

When we got chickens, we owned a dog with a VERY high prey drive. He just never had access to my birds or he would have slaughtered the entire flock, no question about it. He killed several cats at the old neighborhood who had the misfortune to jump into my fenced backyard (again, we spent $$ to fence our dogs at that house, too) and never got out. The inevitable "Fluffy is Missing" poster would go up, but I wasn't saying a word. My dog was where he should have been and the cat was not.