"Miss Betty Boop! NO!"

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Betty Boop has a little short face like a shihtzu, so I don't think I could muzzle her, unless I gave her a plastic bubble helmet to wear around the yard, you know, the kind that the hamsters run around in? LOL I don't think I would trust her short snout to hold a muzzle in place, especially if a bird's safety was on the line. I think my best plan is to "just say no" to her going out back when any birds are out there.
 
My wife's Miniature Pinscher always likes to go to the coop and run to "terrorize" my barred rocks when we let him out. Over the week end I took him out on a leash to see the chooks as they were free ranging. He was all tough and eager until the 10 week old roo swelled up and flapped his wings at him. I had to pry him out from under my lawn chair just to get him back inside. I think his days as the aggressor are over.
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Glad she didn't kill the goose. Have you thought of closing it up a little with super glue?
 
This is a old thread, just wanted to update, a year later. Goose recovered fully, and he and his sister found a new home, because they were too noisy for suburbia. I am zoned for them, but not for a jillion chicks growing out here, didn't want to draw attention to that little detail. I have since brought turkeys, and some muscovy ducks here, and they are free ranging in the back yard during the day, locked up at night. Betty Boop has cooled her jets quite a bit, and shows some interest in the smaller birds through the wire, especially if I am catching one to move to another pen, or letting out young ones for the first time, but besides that she is doing fine around the turkeys and the muscovies. She is off lead, and doesn't bother them at all. I don't feel like I have to watch her every second, but I make SURE when we all head indoors, she is accounted for and the wooden gate shut and the kitchen door shut before I let myself quit monitoring her. The one time with the goose, I nearly put the fear of death in her, and I think it took. I have not done much in the meantime besides watch her and call her name from time to time when she "perks up" if something flapped its wings, or jumped up and did a Jackie Chan kick like some exhuberant pullets are known to do for no reason. LOL One of the muscovies even has a gimpy leg, which I thought would trigger her attack mode, but it has not. So, there is hope for little attacking feinds, but never let your guard down. Betty Boop's glamour shot from a few weeks ago.

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When I was a teenager, a little 5 pound Jack Russel Terrier grabbed on to my horse's leg and tore a chunk of flesh out. That horse was kicking and that little dog was latched on with jaws of steel. The horse finally managed to kick him loose and took off running. The dog was chasing the horse but we were able to scare him off. The dog was a stray and that was not the first time he had chased the horse. Tiny dogs can do HUGE damage to livestock.

I'm glad your goose will be ok, wow!!
 
-have a wee 9 year-old Yorkie and under no circumstances will he ever be permitted around the chickens. He is the sweetest, spoiled rotten little thing - BUT, has the instinct to do that for which he was initially bred (kill rats)! He is 6lbs. of ferocity when something encroaches upon his territory. The hubby's huge Great Pyrenees was a very good dog around fowl.

Anyway, I hope that your bird makes a full recovery!
 
-just read about the age of the thread. Well, there it is....
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-glad that everything is fine!!! (and I'll read more closely before posting)
 

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