msue - love the costume!
Thanks all. We live in the country so shooting isn't a problem. I know I'd only be able to shoot a dog if it had a bird in it's mouth and then I'd cry because it's not hunting it's a pet and it's not really it's fault. In our county animal control is a joke, they may show up the end of the week. So anyway...
Here's an update and I'll try not be too long winded but .... My husband called the neighbor, neighbor replies the dog has been on the porch - I happen to know he wasn't home at the time because he drove in while I was tearing about trying to find chickens. Husband tells neighbor if the dog comes after the chickens again he's going to shoot it, neighbor says fine, they have had the conversation before. Neighbor's wife calls husband and asks how I am, he says you call her, so she does. She's sorry, it's her dog. Her husband cut the underground fence last month and it hasn't been fixed, she says it will be. Want's to "replace" my birds and I told her they couldn't be. I was too flustered to think of the cost. I don't remember much of what was said, although I mentioned how upset my son was. I told her I hoped her dog didn't get sick from eating my chickens. I lied, I hope the dog throws up chicken parts all night!
Anyway after a rotten afternoon, about 6 my son spots my little bantam Sizzle headed in from the field about 200 yards behind the coop and house.
This is my little Ms. Moppit who has never in her life been more than 6 foot from the coop. Then we discovered one of the button quail had hatched during all the excitement. 22 more are still in the incubator hopefully to hatch soon.
So I lost a guinea- Honey, a Blue Cochin-Blueberry who was so sweet and waited for me in the morning to pick her up off the roost, and a bantam Silkie- Dusty. I have one injured guinea in the dog crate in the basement for observation but I think she will go back out tomorrow - just minor injuries. So as sad as I am, I feel very fortunate out of 38 chickens and 6 guineas and who knows how much time the dog had, I only lost three.
There is that verse that says "the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, Blessed be the name of the Lord." I guess that's how I feel.
. Call animal control and report what happened. They may not want to do anything, but at least you are on record. If the dog comes again and you can catch him instead of chasing him off, you will have the prooof you need when animal control picks him up.
