German Shepherd Shot

[fc]

I don't know what an, "OP" or, "DD" are (unless DD is Dunkin Donuts).
Glad I don't have neighbors from hell like the guy one of the posters talked about.
I've had four German Shepherds that have wanted a piece of me in the past. One chased me every day when I was riding a motorcycle to high school. Three German Shepherds intended to attacked me when I was taking a nature walk in another state. I threw rocks as fast as I could. They were running at me growling and barking. I had a German Shepherd once. She was such a poor pet I gave her away.

 

[ladysfield]

Good job Mrs. FC! It takes some courage to shoot something and is not a pleasant thing. I'm fortunate that my husband is an excellent shot and is willing and usually available to take care of problem animals so I haven't had to shoot very many.

I feel the frustration of 'Stormy Moon' in Alvarado, also. We are in Alvarado as well and not all neighbors are considerate when it comes to pets and livestock.

We try to give peaceful dogs a pass who are just crossing the property if they have collar and tags. A shot overhead hurries them along and gives a lesson about where they are not welcome.

Unfortunately, too many folks are completely irresponsible out here and dump everything from tiny puppies to grown dogs. These we immediately eliminate as humanely as possible. The poor dogs often are starving or bald with mange or suffering from some other disease. A friend who works in a local vet clinic says the nickname for our area is 'distemper central'. This summer we had also confirmed cases of rabies. So there are many reasons to put down these animals, unfortunately.

 

[terrilhb]

OP means Original Post I think. I know DD means darling daughter, ds means darling son, dw darling wife, dh darling husband. mil mother inlaw. You get it. LOL or dear what ever. one of those.

 

[dainerra]

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I'm sorry to hear you've had such bad experiences with GSDs. Shepherds are way overbred, not to mention that some people believe that "guard dog" equals a dog that will attack every person it sees.

 

[Desert Rooster]

FC , your wife did good in protecting your pets

i always have a 12ga ready just in case, the first two rounds are blank, and the rest are 00 buck shot if the predator dont get the message with the blanks

 

[Duramaxgirl]

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That's a cool idea.

 

[Mommy 2 Wee Ones]

To FC & Wife, I am so sorry for you loss, and what your wife has had to go through. Like most everyone has posted, she did the right thing.

To all those who are giving OP a hard time, have any of you tried to take a rawhide away from a dog, big or little. No matter how much you yell, scream, throw at them, they will not let it go. These dogs were in her coop, she had every right to do what she did.

I had a similar situation, there were 3 dogs on my street who were let out at night to roam. I called animal control, gave them the address. I was told that I could come & pick up a trap or try to catch the dogs myself & bring them in. One was a Sheppard, the other was a Rot mix, the other a big dog, mixed breed. There was no way I was going to try and catch them myself.

We had at the time a duplex rabbit hutch & a large metal hutch with 3 rabbits. The hutch had a interior for sleeping & a fenced exterior, raised off the ground 2 ft & the enclosure was taller than me (I am 5'2").

My aunt went out that morning to feed the rabbits, and I heard the most horrific sound I will never forget. My aunt was screaming, crying & moaning, she's gone, she's gone. I thought for a minute she was going to pass out on me. I raced out there (the side yard of our house) and the underside of one hutch was ripped out, the sturdy mesh, the holes so small that rabbit poop sometimes did not go through. My uncle built this and he built things like Fort Knox. The other metal hutch was on it's side, two of our 3 rabbits were gone. I do not know how my angora, Whitney survived, but she was traumatized.

The next night (Whitney was inside) I heard scraping on our side gate, I went out to look & all three are jumping back over our fence and heading down the street. 3 nights in a row this happened, and after calling animal control, and the police, nothing could be done unless I trapped them.
My poor aunt was despondent, Gidget was a little dwarf dutch, that was her pride & joy, my aunt was in her mid 60's when this happened and suffered from High Blood Pressure to the point of nearly having a stroke a few times.
She could not even go out the sliding glass door onto the patio, she would get light headed.

We are all animal lovers in our family, but this could not happen again. I bought gopher poison, a large can of wet dog food, mixed it together in a pie tin & set it out that night & waited. I heard them scale our side gate, and leave, they never came back again.
And to this day, I never felt a ounce of guilt for what I did. The terror & fear my poor rabbits went through that night & the screams of my aunt the next morning, justified what I did to protect my remaining rabbit, who from then on, lived on the enclosed patio.

No one, human or animal has the right to come on to your property and hurt or kill your animals. If they do, a price will be paid.

 

[LiLRedCV]

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[boxermom]

to your wife. I'd be upset too because I love dogs, but I love MY chickens too. Sorry you had to go thru this. She's a strong woman. I applaud her.

 

[cafarmgirl]

What a rotten situation your wife had to deal with. I get so mad when crappy dog owners put other people as well as their own dogs in those situations. I love dogs, I've had them all my life and I do not want to have to shoot one. But in a situation such as yours there is no choice, unless you want to let the dog slaughter all your birds, or whatever else he's after. I know I will NOT stand there and watch any of my animals shredded by someone else's dog.

As someone else said, it's easy to sit here after the fact and come up with alternatives, not so when your faced with the dog in the coop and murdering as fast as it can.