Mountain Peeps's Chat Thread...Continued!
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Ugh. Yesterday I witnessed something very sad. We went to the Humane Society with my aunt because there was a really nice dog I wanted her to visit. She and my cousins seemed really serious about getting a dog since they're new house is finally built, so that's why I told them we should go and look at this dog. This dog was a mistreated, extremely shy, Treeing Walker Coonhound. Despite his shyness and his past, he's a complete sweetheart once he warms up to you. My aunt decided that she wanted him, so she adopted him and took him home last night. We went back to her house because my mom is really experienced with animals and knows the first night is usually the worst. The dog is really nervous when we get him home. All he wants to do is go outside because that's where he feels safe, and this makes sense....he was found out in the country with another hound, both starving and killing barn cats for food. Most likely someone mistreated them and then dumped them in the country or they ran away from an abusive hunter. We don't even know how long it had been since he was in an actual house, perhaps he had never been in an actual house and was always kept outside. Anyways, like I said, when we get home the dog is nervous and just keeps sitting at the door. My aunt brings him on a walk once and then decides she's done walking him for the night. You can't do that! New dogs that come to your house need to be brought outside to go to the restroom evey half hour to forty five minutes. So my mom and I start bringing the dog outside everytime, and guess what? The dog starts to become more attached to us than his actual owner because we are taking care of him! And it didn't help this poor dog bond with my aunt when she yelled at him for putting his paw up on the door to go outside. You cannot yell at nervous, mistreated dogs the first night you have them. So, my aunt decides that it would be best to put the dog in his cage for the rest of the night because she "needs to wrap presents". Dogs that come to your home need to be led around and shown the house so they are more comfortable! They are not supposed to be out in there cage and ignored. As we are wrapping presents my aunt decides she doesn't want the dog anymore and starts saying things like "my life is so stressful", "when I come home from work I don't want to deal with a dog", "the kids better take responsibility for this dog", "I don't want him peeing on my new house", "I didn't know dogs were this much work", etc. Then my aunt says she doesn't want the dog anymore and she's bringing it back to the Hunane Society tomorrow. Great! At this point I'm so mad! This poor dog has done nothing and he's already getting returned where he's just going to become more nervous around humans and continue to lay on the hard, cold ground. I just went over to the dog and gave him a kiss and we left. I admit, I was crying. I was so mad and sad that first off someone made this dog so nervous and stressed and second off, my aunt just adopted this dog without thinking and now is just returning him. And my family would adopt him, but when he was running around in the country all he had to eat was cats. So now he hates cats and eats them. We can't keep him on our property because we have barn cats and they are very important because they keep the mice at bay. I'm just really upset.The poor thing doesn't deserve this at all. Luckily my mom said we can visit him and work on socializing him until he gets adopted. I just wish that we could adopt him, because I can tell he's a very special, kindhearted dog. But, the only good thing that came out of this is I realized that I need to spend more time with my dogs. And I need to hug them and kiss them more often. And so everyone who has a dog here, go hug them for me, and especially if they were adopted and mistreated before, give them an extra big hug!
Awe poor guy. You know, almost anything is trainable with a dog. As long as he's being fed he's not going to eat any cats. Now chasing is another story. But don't worry, this is instinctive with dogs (especially hounds). You could keep him in the house for a few weeks to socialize him and fatten him up, then you could introduce him to the cats on a leash a few times a day for a few weeks so he can get used to being around them before you start training him not to chase. Sarah wrote a great article about harmonizing dogs with chickens and it works much the same way with cats. A training collar works really well with this sort of thing, too. I just got one for my guardian livestock puppy to train him not to chase. It was $20 on Amazon and it's a pretty good little collar for the price.
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NI'm sorry.Hope you get better soon.
). The flock might be dealing with worms, but I'm using natural remedies to hold them off until I can kill the infestation in the spring. We have 8 kittens in the coop right now so I think that's where the worms came from.
How's your birds?
Hello Destiny, how are you today?
I'm good. How are you?
I'm good. How are you?
So far so good.
I'm good. How are you?
So far so good.
That's good. How's the flock?
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