Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

They have the orange table outside that Piglet uses often for water so I could bring that into the run area.
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Good idea. It's already familiar, so she's more likely to use it.

 

[Sylvester017]

This is my bestie dog Jack waiting for me to stop messing with the chickens. He's at his boundary. He would probably kill a chicken given the opportunity, given he's a bird dog.

Just about any unsupervised dog breed will play-kill birds... not just "bird dogs". Bird dog trained breeds are used by hunters for their soft mouth when retrieving killed birds. Not like a Pit or Bullie that clamps tight-jawed ruining a hunter's pheasant catch.

Your Jack seems to behave properly under your supervision. I would venture to say a "hound breed" would be harder to control as they are bred for "chasing" prey rather than soft-mouth bird retrieval.

My DD's Golden Retriever has a much softer mouth action than her Pit mix. Both are trained, well behaved, but the Golden is an all-around real marshmallow sweetie. She smiles a lot too

 

[kattabelly]

Just about any unsupervised dog breed will play-kill birds... not just "bird dogs". Bird dog trained breeds are used by hunters for their soft mouth when retrieving killed birds. Not like a Pit or Bullie that clamps tight-jawed ruining a hunter's pheasant catch.

I used to have a Staffordshire bull terrier cross - looked like there was a bit of sighthound in him too - who would sometimes catch pigeons and always released them unharmed when they didn't want to play

He was the most rubbish terrier ever, he saw rats and mice as something closer to pets than prey If a mouse got into his food bowl he'd just sit there making sad, starving puppy-dog eyes until I chased it away.

 

[kattabelly]

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