I REALIZE THIS IS A POULTRY SITE BUT!

[tfpets]

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Aside from the fact that the only dog I've ever seen chained up was a neighbors dog that was hanging from a tree/clothesline setup being strangled to death, while they were inside watching television (I jumped a 6 foot wood fence and lifted him up, unsecured the tie line, layed him down and banged on the door. I never saw him again)

June can chew through solid metal, we've kenneled her, she destroyed the chain link and got out.
During our wildfire evacuation, we took her off of our property and tried to put her in a shop bathroom and she tore the paper towel and toilet paper dispensers, the sink, the frame of the door and the mirror off the wall, water was spraying everywhere from the pipe she chewed, and she ripped up the floor tiles. She wanted to go home, to her yard.
She's very obnoxious, but incredibly sweet and loyal. She will do anything to come home, she follows commands, and she is a total work horse, just high strung.

I know if I put a chain on her, she would kill herself. She stays right in the yard now, I mean it, I cant get her to leave. At all. Not since we tried to rehome her and she came back, 12 miles and it took her a month, but she came back.
Tina/tfpets

 

[redhen]

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if you offended anyone by telling your opinion like you was asked too,,, then THEY shouldnt be reading a forum

*SIGH*..i always get people mad...i just cant seem to help it...

.....besides we are all allowed our opinions...so its no big deal...

 

[meriruka]

Last Sunday, I let my silkies out in the yard to free range a little, under my supervision.
My neighbors' dog, a beagle he had let out to run free around the countryside, trotted up the road, charged into my yard, grabbed my smallest, sweetest silkie hen. He snapped her back then trotted off towards home carrying her in his mouth. I chased him and got him to drop her. She rolled several times on the road. I picked her up and as I ran towards the house with her, she died in my hands.

I can't describe to you how painful this was. She was just happily digging around in the leaves and the next minute-- dead.


I've always been someone who hates the thought of killing an animal. I am vegetarian. I have always advocated retraining or rehoming, trying every option to save an animal whose behavior is bad, with killing as the absolute last resort.

All I wanted to do was walk up to his house and empty a full clip into his kennel.


The dog's owner is also the person who cares for my chickens when I am away. When I told him about it, he felt bad and offered to pay for the chicken. I told him I don't want money, just to please keep the dog away or at least warn me when he is out roaming, so I can keep all my chickens safe in the run.
I also know to keep all the chickens in during hunting season, because all the people around here use dogs to hunt (don't get me started) and let them all run amok over the county.

That said, I will ABSOLUTELY shoot that dog if it ever sets foot on my property again.
Yes, dogs will be dogs and they are absolutely free to do as they please but not on my property and not with my chickens. If that makes me a bad person, then, well, that's what I am.

(Please, no one be offended by this, it's just my own position and it felt good to let it out.....)

 

[deerman]

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Native American ate dogs, also horse meat.
Still people eat dogs today, this is the WWW

Just because people eat chicken doesnt mean, other dont keep them as pets and show.

Point I was making about dogs being domesticat dinner.

 

[redhen]

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Aside from the fact that the only dog I've ever seen chained up was a neighbors dog that was hanging from a tree/clothesline setup being strangled to death, while they were inside watching television (I jumped a 6 foot wood fence and lifted him up, unsecured the tie line, layed him down and banged on the door. I never saw him again)

June can chew through solid metal, we've kenneled her, she destroyed the chain link and got out.
During our wildfire evacuation, we took her off of our property and tried to put her in a shop bathroom and she tore the paper towel and toilet paper dispensers, the sink, the frame of the door and the mirror off the wall, water was spraying everywhere from the pipe she chewed, and she ripped up the floor tiles. She wanted to go home, to her yard.
She's very obnoxious, but incredibly sweet and loyal. She will do anything to come home, she follows commands, and she is a total work horse, just high strung.

I know if I put a chain on her, she would kill herself. She stays right in the yard now, I mean it, I cant get her to leave. At all. Not since we tried to rehome her and she came back, 12 miles and it took her a month, but she came back.
Tina/tfpets

awww!..Tina!..you gotta keep the baby!..she loves you guys!...

...talk about devotion!......now to get the men to be so devoted....*snort*.....i'd take a devoted dog anyday...heehe....but honestly, she really sounds like an amazing dog!..what breed is she?....i know how it is to take in a re-homed dog....my poor Great Dane(Ares)..when i got him, he was devastated to loose his family...he whined and whined..kept going to the door where he last saw the lady leave through..it broke my heart...

....heres a pic of him..( i always have to show him off..heehee..

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[kwynn's birds Alaska]

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I wasn't offended...I just remembered reading the story on the news not too long ago.

about dogs for dinner. I heard someone say once...if I had a dog like that, I'd sell it to a vietnamese restaurant.

 

[deerman]

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Fine here

 

[redhen]

How do you think the dogs Chow-Chows got the name?..think about chinese food...Chow mein.....

 

[mtnhomechick]

If someone broke into my home, my dog would make them a 5 course dinner and then serve tea.

But she's a big girl and they wouldn't know that.

And that's the way I want her to be. A FAMILY dog.

We'll do the protecting.

 

[tackyrama]

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Ok folks, for the reecord again, I don't condone marauding dogs. I never said it was alright for dogs to go around killing anything on anyone elses property. I also have issues with bad dogs. My point was simply that too many people on BYC seem ready to shoot first and ask questions later. My main point that seems to have been missed by almost everybody is concerning WILD predators. Check out my posts and in almost every one my main concern has been killing wild predators, especially protected and endangered species.

This is geting too personal so I'll sign off this thread. Have fun folks!