Dog attack...dog dead. update Pg 4

[Boyd]

If I hadn't invited my 1 barred rock rooster over for dinner, I wouldn't probably be too trigger happy either. He still had his spurs and I know he could and did take on my lab any day of the week when he got too close. he just got too mean and I still had little kids at home, so he had to go. Now I am not against LGD's or Ornery roosters as a predator deterrant, but in the heat of the moment when somethings attacking you use what you have handy. In Cetawin's case it was a gun.




"Don't hate the player, hate the game"
-Booker T

 

[lickskillet]

That's the mentality I don't understand. That dogs somehow have gotton to human status, and should be treated as such. I understand that they have prey drive yada, yada, yada, but in the same breath, they have been domesticated, and should be kept in check (for their own good). You did good Cetawin. And I agree that it's unfortunate that the dogs have to suffer the owners ignorance.

But you gotta do what you gotta do!

Appropriate quote Boyd.

 

[Cetawin]

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You do not understand...it is not about a dog vs a chicken or a dog vs a dog. I do not care if the stupid dog was going after my daughter's pet rat, my dog or a chicken. It has no business on my property attacking anything. I do not blame the dog, it lost its life because the owners made a mistake in leaving the gate open, the made the mistake in not training the dog to stay at home but it is not my job to train everyone's dog for them.

You look at it from the perspective of which has more value a dog or a pet chicken when in fact it has little to do with that. A pet is a pet. My 12 year old has cried bucklets when her 3 year old rat died and also when one of our pet chickens died and when we had to have our pet wolf put to sleep at 13 years old...I cried with her. Neither pet was any more important or less important than the other...neither had more value or less value.

You have the same obligation to the pet chicken that you have to the hamster, the dog or the cat...you must be a responsible owner & keep the pet safe along with the other requirements of housing, food, water, vet care and etc.

I would love to have been able to scare the dogs off and then wakl down to the neighbors to let them know what had happened and ask that they keep the dog home and away from my coop and my pets. I did not have that option...the options I had were

1. Watch it kill my little dog
2. Kill it

Those are not options to me...it was on my dog's property...he stays home and should not have to worry about another dog in his yard. The invader died.

Every member of BYC needs to put their input in the posts here, whether it be some sympathy, encouragement, advice, instruction on fixinf a coop problem, to give a little support, share a laugh or smile. All of them are important. You input was valuable to my thread, I objected to a category being placed on those of us who have had no choice but to kill a dog as "dog shooters". Yes, it raised my back but onl because I have been terribly upset over what has happened and what I did. Just try to remember in the predators section...not all look at different pet animals as being varying values or importance, many of us see no difference in value between the hamster and the horse when it comes to a predator.

And again I am sorry I was witchy in my reply to you.

 

[GaNewChick]

IMO ~ there is a lot of disrespect towards dogs. SSS, got a coon ... get a dog, got a fox ... get a dog, got a coyote ... get a dog, other dogs ... get a dog. Just get a dog and throw it in the backyard to fend for itself against any other predator. What's with that?

For those who say they would be 'sad' or 'understand' if their dog was shot and killed on someone's property (and may only be passing through with no intent to harm livestock) ... I can only hope that you would be devastated. I hope that you would show as much heartbreak over your dog as you would your chicken.

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, I would be very sad. My dog is a house dog, all 65 lb of her, sleeps at the foot of my bed, is petrified of chickens, actually. But, my devastation over the loss of my dog would be my own fault, self-inflicted, as it were. That's all I'm saying. Has nothing to do with how upset I'd be, but the upset would be over the loss of my pet and my stupid mistake in allowing her to get out of the fence, not at the person who was protecting their own pets/livestock. Someone who has the attitude "It's just a chicken" is showing disrespect for my birds and my own love for them, so disrespect goes two ways.

 

[Cetawin]

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Deplorable you say? How deplorable would it have been for me to stand there and watch this 60 lb dog maul and kill my 10 lb dog?

You obviously read only what you wanted to...I yelled at them, threw a brick at them, shooed them you name it....my daddy taught me one thing about guns...if you point it be prepared to kill with it. I am not running in the house and grabbing a paintball gun (if I had one)...I am grabbing my 9mm...if I point it at something...something dies.

Your holier than thou attitude and pointing the finger at everyone here that does not think the nonsense that you do is deplorable. How dare you? What gives you the right to judge anyone? I am ashamed of nothing I have done in my life from running naked through my college campus on a beat to shooting that dog. Am I happy about it...nope but there you have it. I did what I had to. Hopefully, for you pets, you are never in the same position because something tells me your pets will lose.

 

[speckledhen]

For probably the third time here, I am telling you folks to read these rules! If you cannot deal with stories like this, stay out of Predators & Pests, period.

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