Help! Emergency!

[Little Chicken Mama]

No dip Sherlock

 

[ChickMama1234]

Ok sorry lol I just don't know who's being serious anymore

it's good lol. Must be hard dealing with idiots all day

 

[Little Chicken Mama]

it's good lol. Must be hard dealing with idiots all day

Fosho

 

[K0k0shka]

really? I thought feeding chickens to raccoons was a bad idea. You’re joking right?

Just playin' along.

 

[The smith family chicks]

What?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

What's going on is probably better than it sounds to you. If my kids are yelling and breaking things to their own parents, anyone would punish them.

If you don't want random internet strangers making the wrong assumptions, maybe don't tell them you punish your kids for being angry that their pets were violently killed due to complete neglect. Or, if that isn't the whole story, maybe tell the whole story. Animal neglect, by the way, is punishable by law in Georgia with up to a year in jail.

When I was eight, my dog got loose and our mail lady hit her and I watched her die. It wasn't the mail lady's fault. She had slammed on her brakes, and I saw that. It took ten minutes for my dog to die. And I watched it. I screamed things eight year olds should never scream at that mail lady, and the mail lady never responded to my mean words except to say sorry, and my mom, who actually has common sense and empathy, held me close and told me its okay to be mad and hurt. And then when I calmed down, she sat me down and told me a more appropriate way to manage my feelings when things are bad. Both my mom and the poor mail lady that hit the dog KNEW that I had every reason to feel hurt and traumatized over what happened. They knew what it was like to feel pain and knew what it felt like to be out of control. If my mom had never sat me down and had a civil discussion, I never would have realized there was a better way for me to express myself.

So if there is more to the story, please, by all means, do let us all know that you aren't irrationally punishing your kids without redirecting their emotions because of their mother's complete and total negligence. I want you to prove me wrong. Believe me when I say, I surely hope I am misunderstanding this situation.

Edited to add: I'm telling you the honest-to-God truth, if someone left my coop door open thinking my chickens wanted to make friends with racoons, and my chickens died, I'd be in jail for a whole lot more than animal neglect. So far you've had numerous chances to correct yourself, and you haven't, so given the minimal information I've seen, I feel your kids reactions were completely justified.

 

[McChooky]

really? I thought feeding chickens to raccoons was a bad idea. You’re joking right?

Its obvious you haven't earned the trust of these raccoons yet. Clearly you want them to get along, otherwise why would you ask ask for our help? Perhaps buying the raccoons some corn and placing it in the coop with the chicks they'll stop eating the chicks altogether?

 

[ButtonHoarder]

I really thought this was a joke at first.

I have a solution: stop feeding your chickens to the racoons.

 

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