Don't know where to put this as it has a bit of everything, so it is here. We have had a crazy morning. My mom wakes me up this morning and tells me that our dog Shadow, attacked our neighbors ferret! So I get up, and she has a half dead white ferret, our neighbors, in a feed sack. In case you are confused let me explain.We have some weird neighbors, between drug addictions, cussing 3 year olds, a bunch of giant black labs, a teen who is into who knows what, they are a little odd. They have a few ferrets, and last summer, I walked outside and there was a ferret running across the lawn, and I wanted to keep it, but turns out it belonged to them, so I had to return it. It is weird as these neighbors are not like suburb neighbors, they are surrounded by a ''moat'' like creek, with just a bridge to get to their palce, and there is a couple hills you have to go up and a road, to get to our place, so how a ferret did that I do not know. And as far as the dog, his name is Shadow and he is a some type of black setter. We rescued him from euthanasia from the dog pound last winter, and he is a Godsend. He guards our chickens and our farm, and alerts us when someone is here. He will kill any small animal, except cats thankfully, that comes along. So back to the story. Shadow saw the little ferret in our garage, near our chickens, and attacked it. So my mom told him to drop it and he did, so then she frantically put it in a feed sack and into the house. We called the owners, and the man came over to get him ferret and I was shocked by his reaction. He laughed at the almost dead little guy, and teased our dog with it, and said ''If he croaks he croaks'' and when we said we were very sorry he said ''Oh don't be, these things are just nuisances''!!!!!!!!!! I have been around ferrets before and they are sweethearts. If we didn't have so many animals I would have took it. We later heard gunshots, so we called them again and as we suspect, they killed little Snowball. Now it this isn't weird enough, it continues. An hour or so later, I head out side to give my chickies some treats and to my surprise, there are two dead chickens in there! The pen they were in is connected to the garage and there is a little opening at the bottom, so it is possible that a very small animal could get under there. I walk in there and it is Mr. Peeps and Duncan. They were young roosters, and were probably going to be slaughtered by a neighbor of ours, but no one wants to see there chickens dead. Mr. Peep's head was removed completly, and Duncan's head was all yucky and bloody, lacking eyeballs and such, neither are good scenes for a meat-a-phobic vegetarians eyes. I had silkies in that pen as well, so why they went after utility type roos I do not know. I removed the 5 silkies and put them into a nice coop. I am absoulutly sure it was the ferret. We do not have predators since Shadow has been here, I have free range silkie roosters, and nothing has even gotton them. I know this all makes little sense, but does a pet ferret killing chickens make any?
Ashlyn
Ashlyn
