English Shepherd as Poultry Guardian

[centrarchid]

Do electric fences produce ozone. Motors I work with do big time. In some instances I can feel electrical fields with my hair and by same mechanism fish can pick up such very well.

 

[centrarchid]

Very early this morning shortly after midnight Ben ran down hill behind something barking along the way. Lucy was inside at the time bolted out the front door barking as she caught up to him. At most a couple of minutes later Lucy came back and started jumping on me while whining. She was trying to get me to go outside. As I put on shoes, coat but not much else Ben came inside to so the same as Lucy. We quickly went outside where both dogs barked at something to the south but neither seemed motivated at that time to go after it as the threat seemed under control to them. This is the process where I need to get faster in responding so I can get out quickly enough to help. Both dogs may be in process of learning to do the Lassie / Scoob thing where a very clear single is given to me to follow. This may increase odds we can catch raccoon that otherwise gets into tree or gets into hole in ground. I can help with former. For a while with Scoob, it was just he and I which likely setup for a more natural dynamic I desired than what I want now. Scoob was also nearly a year older than Ben is now before Lucy was acquired as a pup making so training sequence is very much different for the latter two dogs.

 

[hellbender]

That's a very interesting scenario but if that happened here, it would drive me to distraction. My dogs simply kill whatever has trespassed and whoever locks the night dogs up will see what they got laying near the kennels. An exception was when the dogs caught a black bear in the walnut grove several weeks ago and a neighbor killed it (legally) when I was out of town.

 

[centrarchid]

Your dogs cannot climb trees any better than mine. Read my threads (linked earlier in this one) discussing what happens when trespassing predators are caught by dogs on ground so you can keep your statements more relevant.

 

[dan26552]

Your dogs cannot climb trees any better than mine. Read my threads (linked earlier in this one) discussing what happens when trespassing predators are caught by dogs on ground so you can keep your statements more relevant.

Actually on the ES board on Facebook there are quite a few dogs who do climb trees.

 

[centrarchid]

I am aware of dogs that can climb trees. Some of our coonhounds and faust cross dogs could do it. They cannot climb the 70 foot pin oaks where the raccoon gets out on distal branches.

 

[hellbender]

I'm an old 'coon hunter. 'Coon hounds (aka tree-dogs) do not climb trees. Nor do the numerous Cur, Feist or Terriers that are used for hunting treeing game.

Here's a pic of one of my Mt. Curs. He was the first Mt.Cur to be registered with UKC. He was also a WTDA (World Tree Dog Assn) and ARBA (American Rare Breed Dog Assn) Champion.

Not only would he tree 'coon but he was a very good bobcat dog.

 

[centrarchid]

Coon hunting occurs outside your neck of the woods and doing the canned hunts for show are just that. The tree climbing is rare and not consequential as the dog can not get to where the raccoon is located.

 

[hellbender]

Coon hunting occurs outside your neck of the woods and doing the canned hunts for show are just that. The tree climbing is rare and not consequential as the dog can not get to where the raccoon is located.

Outside my neck of the woods? Friend, I live on my 2,000 acre farm in the Central Highlands of West Virginia. I've coon and all treeing game since I was about 6 years old and started doing it alone when I was about 12.

I sold coon hides to help me defray costs in college and as a side note, I caught rattlesnakes (when it was legal) in the summertime for the same purpose.

While Marcellus Shale pays my bills now, I still get out once in a while with friends (as do my adult children) and ride along with friends on bear hunts, my old friend arthritis prevents me from taking as active roll as I would like.

My daughter killed a bear this year with friends ...her first. I mean you no disrespect and take none from your attempts to question my integrity.

Here's a pic or two of my daughter's bear.

 

[allenw]

Hellbender

Good looking Fiest and your daughter's bear looks like a nice bear.