Husky dog and poultry, slaughtered chicken

[ShrekDawg]

It is still harder with humans than with animals ....

Yes for sure! I always found it was easy to train the dogs. Training the humans was way harder I still haven’t trained my dad!

 

[M Brennen]

He was only about 6 1/2 years old, sadly. He had a terrible disease, masticatory muscle myositis (MMM), we think, and started slowly declining over about a year and a half or two before we finally had to put him down just a couple days after Christmas. that was almost 2 years ago now. Still miss him.

It’s so difficult. I have been there many times with dogs and cats. At least they knew they were loved!

 

[Morgank]

Is it possible for you to use your car to drive up to the dog so he has to move away and you can get the chicken? Losing the chicken might deflate his ego and you might be able to regain control this way.

I strongly recommend to get professional help with further training of this dog if you really want to keep him and stay safe.

Thank you Lafleche! I'm just reading your post now. My finnish husband drove his low Volvo. Thank you again.

 

[NatJ]

Kill a dog because he killed a chicken?

More like "kill a dog because he is a threat to a person."

The original question was about the dog guarding a dead chicken--showing teeth, refusing to come when called, etc. The dog was defending against his owner, not against a stranger.

The situation has since changed.

I think it was recognized all along that one solution to chicken-killing is a fence. The owner has a fence, the dog got out of the fence, of course the owner will fix the fence. (People also made various suggestions about training, of course--it's been a long thread.)

 

[tribalacres]

More like "kill a dog because he is a threat to a person."

The original question was about the dog guarding a dead chicken--showing teeth, refusing to come when called, etc. The dog was defending against his owner, not against a stranger.

The situation has since changed.

I think it was recognized all along that one solution to chicken-killing is a fence. The owner has a fence, the dog got out of the fence, of course the owner will fix the fence. (People also made various suggestions about training, of course--it's been a long thread.)

I wasn’t addressing you, I was posting to the original poster. Not you. I read all of the posts.

 

[M Brennen]

I hope you are having a better day, those moments are so tough and so weary. All kinds of thoughts come through to your mind.

Kill a dog because he killed a chicken?

I don’t get that. What I do know is most people’s responses always come from pain or purpose. Kill a dog because she/he hurt a friend/relative in the past. So now all dogs are dangerous, while this could be true, we can’t look dim glasses but a pure perspective and try to fix things for the future.

I too have three LGD’s, even asked for help once here a couple months ago. I got the same responses of “I shouldn’t have got them, etc. etc.” from another forum too.

I do get super attached to these animals, all of them, and we have a ton and it’s hard when a dog attacks an animal and it’s easy to give advice than to actually walk it out.

I sympathize with you and can tell you what we did, we hired a dog trainer that works specifically with LGD’s and man, it’s done wonders. We lost two animals and they weren’t chickens. So we haven’t lost anything since the training has started and have definitely learned rules, regulations, and their temperament.

I chain them up in a crate when we have guests on the farm. I know for sure we won’t have attacks that way, and the way I look At it, if you come on our property uninvited. It is what it is.

I’m terrible with acronyms. What is LGD? We have worked with numerous trainers too and learned a lot. It’s more about training the human than training the dog. (My husband struggles with his training). Still, I kennel the dogs when we have visitors and they have their own fenced in area. It will be interesting when I let the chickens out to free range. My lab will be fine, but my hound/ lab rescue with the strong prey drive may take a while to get used to chickens on the other side of the fence. I just hope I can survive it.

 

[tribalacres]

I’m terrible with acronyms. What is LGD? We have worked with numerous trainers too and learned a lot. It’s more about training the human than training the dog. (My husband struggles with his training). Still, I kennel the dogs when we have visitors and they have their own fenced in area. It will be interesting when I let the chickens out to free range. My lab will be fine, but my hound/ lab rescue with the strong prey drive may take a while to get used to chickens on the other side of the fence. I just hope I can survive it.

Livestock Guardian Dog. The first week I looked at our trainer and said, you are here to train me, not them. . I understand that completely. Our ducks, geese, chickens, have their own entrance and range area, however, at night when they are in the coops we open the gate so that the dogs can guard, thankfully they’ve never tried to go in their coops.

 

[NatJ]

I wasn’t addressing you, I was posting to the original poster. Not you. I read all of the posts.

Then I'm confused, because the original poster was not talking about killing the dog, for any reason!

 

[M Brennen]

Livestock Guardian Dog. The first week I looked at our trainer and said, you are here to train me, not them. . I understand that completely. Our ducks, geese, chickens, have their own entrance and range area, however, at night when they are in the coops we open the gate so that the dogs can guard, thankfully they’ve never tried to go in their coops.

I wished I had enough land and livestock to warrant a Livestock Guardian Dog. I love the idea!

 

[tribalacres]

Then I'm confused, because the original poster was not talking about killing the dog, for any reason!

There are plenty of people on this post who suggested putting the dog down, and you choose my post out of TEN PAGES to comment on?

The original poster stated that was super emotional to read that. I was speaking to the original poster to share what we did.

Again, there is no reason to address me as I wasn’t addressing you.