I see where you're coming from.
I love all animals.
But I am a cat person for many reasons (mainly being my cat is awesome!)
I know some people will probably have some negative thoughts about me from this, but my son kept begging for a dog. So we went and got a black lab/ beagle mix from the shelter that was about to be put down and gave it to my son for Christmas. The dog jumped & nipped at him and his friends, he chewed all his toys, he started destroying our house, and soon my son wanted nothing to do iwth him. My husband who was going to train him left in January for Afghanistan leaving me with 2 young kids, all these animals, a house & yard to care for, and I had NO time or patience to try and train this dog. While I did love him, it was appearing I was the only one. One day he decided to randomly kill my best laying Ameraucana and he had to go. That day. I found someone on the other side of town with some land and no chickens looking for a lab. Gave him to her for free with all of his stuff. I really hope he has a good life now, and I do still feel some guilt from it, but hopefully wherever he is, it's better than being euthanized in a shelter.
I will never get another dog.
Our neighbors have some ridiculous black lab golden retriever type mix that they got as a free puppy and never trained. This dog jumps their fence all the time and tries to come in our yard. He ALMOST killed my chickens, but my husband was outside, tackled the dog, and carried him down the street to his owners practically dragging the dog by it's choke collar with me screaming down the street at him not to hurt the dog!
So I see where you're coming from. You can't have dogs killing your animals. But I personally could never kill a dog.
Now if it were legal, I would shoot the **** out of a hawk (haha if I had better aim....)
I love all animals.
But I am a cat person for many reasons (mainly being my cat is awesome!)
I know some people will probably have some negative thoughts about me from this, but my son kept begging for a dog. So we went and got a black lab/ beagle mix from the shelter that was about to be put down and gave it to my son for Christmas. The dog jumped & nipped at him and his friends, he chewed all his toys, he started destroying our house, and soon my son wanted nothing to do iwth him. My husband who was going to train him left in January for Afghanistan leaving me with 2 young kids, all these animals, a house & yard to care for, and I had NO time or patience to try and train this dog. While I did love him, it was appearing I was the only one. One day he decided to randomly kill my best laying Ameraucana and he had to go. That day. I found someone on the other side of town with some land and no chickens looking for a lab. Gave him to her for free with all of his stuff. I really hope he has a good life now, and I do still feel some guilt from it, but hopefully wherever he is, it's better than being euthanized in a shelter.
I will never get another dog.
Our neighbors have some ridiculous black lab golden retriever type mix that they got as a free puppy and never trained. This dog jumps their fence all the time and tries to come in our yard. He ALMOST killed my chickens, but my husband was outside, tackled the dog, and carried him down the street to his owners practically dragging the dog by it's choke collar with me screaming down the street at him not to hurt the dog!
So I see where you're coming from. You can't have dogs killing your animals. But I personally could never kill a dog.
Now if it were legal, I would shoot the **** out of a hawk (haha if I had better aim....)