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[cimarron]

well put, mjs. your husky dog looks like an absolute darling! i remember seeing a photo on here somewhere of a huge rescue husky/wolf with a chicken sitting on its back. it was a chicken killer at first, but had owners that worked very hard to train the dog to respect their other animals. but that was THEIR dog and THEIR chickens. i wouldn't trust a neighbor dog for a second. a lot of people don't get it. they're embarassed that their precious dog could kill somebody elses animals. these are not the people you want for neighbors. and if they are your neigbhors, you have to do whatever you have to do to protect your livestock.

 

[Stonerowfarm]

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.

 

[Tala]

Most people don't understand that all dogs are PREDATORS by nature. Some are bred for it so it shows up more strongly, but all dogs really are.


I probably wouldn't have said I would shoot her dog though. I probably would have just said "then don't move in next to me because I don't want your dog running lose around my kids" or something of that nature.

There's a reason the third S stands for "shut up" because so many dog owners are ignorant about the predator vs. prey relationship that exists in ALL living things.

 

[emilyweck]

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What does SSS stand for? Never heard of it.

 

[fargosmom]

It seems to me that, from posting the original question, you have doubts yourself, and that might mean that you yourself are a little uncomfortable with what you said. If that's true, and if this is someone you previously had a good relationship with, and will continue to deal with in the future, perhaps a clarification is in order. Not necessarily an apology, more of a "perhaps you misconstrued the spirit in which I made my comment" kind of line. It just seems a shame to sour a business environment unnecessarily . . . if she can be educated as to why people with livestock are unhappy about other folks' dogs running loose, maybe you'll both come out ahead. Just my two cents. Personally I have no patience with anyone who can't control their own dog. Mine don't have 100% reliable recall but I work on it, and I don't trust them precisely because I know they're not totally reliable - it's up to me to keep them out of trouble.

 

[chickenlips1954]

SSS=Shoot, shovel, shut-up.

 

[amamaofmany]

I think you were right to tell her the consequences of her allowing her dog onto your property. It is one of the things she needs to KNOW before deciding to buy that house. She has to be perfectly clear that a dog running loose in the country can mean a dead dog when it goes onto someone else's land.

Maybe what she needs to have made clear to her is that ANY of your neighbors would do the same thing to her dog on their property and it is legal and to be expected. That is the way of country life where other people's animals are concerned. If she wants her dog to 'run free', she runs the risk of never having it come home.

Maybe she ought to see pictures of a flock of dead hens at the teeth of a friendly, never-hurt-anyone husky.

You actually did her a favor in giving her fair warning, even though she doesn't know it yet.

(emilyweck, SSS = shoot, shovel, shut up.)

 

[Wifezilla]

I agree though that I probably sounded a little scociopathic

Is that a bad thing? (Some of my best friends are sociopathic

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[gypsy2621]

Does any one else get sick of the phrase" oh it escaped" its becoming the first excuse out of peoples mouths.

I dont think you were harsh nor a sociopath by any streatch of the imagination.
She admitted no recall for the dog, it lacks disipline and training, a lot to be said about the owner if you ask me.
If I had more hands and toes I can continue to count how many people have the idea dogs shouldnt be trained to do anything other than be fed and watered.


I just got a now almost 11 week old Malamute puppy 2 weeks ago and he already knows sit, stay, off, leave it, we are still working on come here. in the 2 weeks I have had him he has learned a lot of commands and many of the hand signals to go with voice commands.
Malamutes are very smart and I always have to be one step ahead of him, I know this and expect he will eventually out smart me. but the recall will be in place by then.
He goes to the brooder box to look at the chicks, first words are OFF! he walks away checks out the duck brooder and the first words are LEAVE IT! he walks away dejected but leaves the area any way.

There is no good reason nor excuse for a dog not having a recall command. its plain laziness on an owners part.

 

[Tala]

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Not only that, it's REALLY easy to teach with positive reinforcement.
Take the dog out with your SO and kids, each of you have treats, make a game of calling the dog to different people in a random order. Puppies love it!