MJSDHS - Oh my Tala is beautiful. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Personally I'm not condemning huskies, I put my own pets into the same predator category and they are far from large.
I had just written a whole post and somehow deleted it. But, to clarify a little bit the work situation. I own my own company, her boss is a client. She is not in charge of accounting/checks. She is a file clerk/typist. I go in and pick up work daily and as such we have become friendly over the years. She tells me all about her kids and hubby, etc. We have had many conversations about my animals and the difficulties in keeping them safe from predators. Here we have coyotes, bear, deer, foxes, fisher cats, raccoons and just about everything else you can think of walking through the property at any given night.
I value all animals whether they are mine or not. She knows this. But, she also knows that we have had problems with animals in the barn, most recently a fisher cat who spent two seasons there. Luckily he moved out before the chickens came in. But now I have the coon living in there. This is totally my fault. I left an area of the foundation open for the feral cats to escape from the coyotes. Unfortunately in being kind-hearted I let the coon take up residence without knowing and lost one of my babies Monday night.
So, she has a good idea of the background here and what I have to do, and have done to keep my animals safe. While my chickens are invaluable to me, my goats are money makers. Over the life of one doe she has production potential of $5,000+ in offspring and milk. that's big bucks.
I agree though that I probably sounded a little scociopathic
I was concerned, even with the past conversations, that I sounded harsh or abrupt. But all I could picture was that dog racing through the yard tearing into my girls.