English Shepherd as Poultry Guardian

[aart]

I found it far enough away to need a truck.

Are you home from hospital and ambulatory then?

 

[centrarchid]

Home from hospital, but can barely cross yard. They put me on a medication that lowers blood pressure that makes me dizzy during exertion.

Will have to conquer this in steps.

 

[Molpet]

Home from hospital, but can barely cross yard. They put me on a medication that lowers blood pressure that makes me dizzy during exertion.

Will have to concur this in steps.

Prayers that you get well soon

 

[aart]

Home from hospital, but can barely cross yard. They put me on a medication that lowers blood pressure that makes me dizzy during exertion.

Will have to concur this in steps.

Best of Luck getting adjusted...hope you are feeling better soonest.

 

[centrarchid]

We brought pups back into yard for a while today. Kids had a blast being able to run and roll with pups.

Ben sniffing his mini-me.

Same pup posturing against her brother. Both pups are brindle.

Pup that is black and white like a border collie.

Daughter as pups started to pile on for a dog pile.

Son with pup he selected for 4H and that will be donated to school for poultry research projects. This one is black and tan.

The yard ornaments that had issues with pups chasing them.

 

[fisherlady]

Mindy and Dillon gave us a present last evening. Not sure where they found it but had to be somewhere around the coop.

 

[centrarchid]

Mindy and Dillon gave us a present last evening. Not sure where they found it but had to be somewhere around the coop.
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It appears alive.

 

[fisherlady]

It appears alive.

It was mortally wounded and was finished off shortly after the picture. She had crushed the spine and rib cage.

 

[centrarchid]

It was mortally wounded and was finished off shortly after the picture. She had crushed the spine and rib cage.

Once my dogs have caught and killed a few opossums, they start to loose interest in finishing job. With those dogs, opossums that play dead get little more than a rough sniffing. Then I have to collect those opossums myself by trapping or catching by hand. if opossums were not so abundant here, I think there would be no such problem.

 

[fisherlady]

Mindy is determined to get any possum anywhere near, she absolutely seems to hate them, playing dead doesnt get them a pass from her. Dillon isnt as concerned, if it is upright he goes after it when it hisses or growls, usually he worries varmints from the front to distract them and Mindy then comes in from behind and grabs them by neck or upper back area. She rarely let's him get a chance to get a kill bite in on them.
If that possum was just ambling around or playing dead he would probably give it a pass. He does get serious though when a confrontation starts.