My dachshund

[The Wolf Queen]

I am so so sorry for you. I have two chiweenies. 1 purebred chihuahua, A lab cross, and an appenzeller mtn dog(Yoshi). Yoshi was smart enough to figure out how to open the rabbit hutch that I keep my younger chickens in and she has killed 10 of my best birds. Not to mention 8 of those were on my birthday last year

. Anyway one thing that Ive heard is that leave the dog outside, and yes this sounds mean, and tie the dead bird to the dogs neck for a few weeks. Its been proven to work everytime.

 

[*proud*new*momma*]

Banty girl I've heard of that too, it does work! It looks and smells awful but hey if it will do the trick.....

 

[kycklingmamma]

We have a Dachshund too, Gus, and he has killed my daughter's hamster, tore it in half, horrible sight, thankfully my daughter never saw this and we told her my dog, the Westie did it. Gus has also tried numerous times to get to the chickens and now we don't let them freerange when he is out. It sucks but hey that is what the are supposed to do, hunt. Let's just learn the lesson, a very hard lesson none the less, and not trust them with smaller animals, and then I think we will all be much happier. I am so sorry to hear about your daughters loss, it is heartbreaking I know.

Kycklingmamma

 

[horsejody]

Doxies were bred to kill small animals. The dog has to be kept separate from the smaller prey type pets.

 

[Brindlebtch]

You need to do something pretty quick because killing critters is an enormous reward for her, so it is a self rewarding behavior and will be very difficult to stop at this point unless she simply can't get to something she can kill. She needs to be separated from your other animals, period.

 

[ssteiner]

We own 2 dachshunds and after they killed three of my girls, I came to the conclusion that I had to be a real fanatic about keeping them apart. I was mad at my dogs when it happened, but I came to realize they were just being doxies. So now we have a chicken part of the yard and a doxie part of the yard and a big demilitarized zone where only people and my harmless cat can enter.

I would never get rid of a member of the family though - especially when they were just being a dog.

Good luck.

-Scott

 

[sparkles2307]

Dachsunds were designed to hunt, its in thier nature. Our little girl in only 8 lbs and she keep our entire yard bird and rabbit free. She is just kept away from the chicks... I dont know why she doesnt attack our ducks because theyr are free range, and if they do happen to be in the pen, chances are shes in there napping with them... she gets really agressive toward the chicks tho... shes an outside dog and the babies are indoors so se wont have much to worry about till they go int he coop. And if its fox proof Im sure its Emma proof too

 

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[waibel zoo]

I did do what I believed would keep the dog from the other animals. But there are other factors involved I can not control all the time: CHILDREN. I understand she is a hunting dog and I researched the crap out of the breed. I also was under the understanding that if raised with the other animals the dog would be less inclined to hunt them. WHich I did.

I would give dogs more credit. She very well knows what is not allowed. You can tell from her body language. If I am present the behavior does not appear. But as soon as I am out of sight, she does what she know she is not allowed. And I caught her on both occasions with the animal in her mouth. She knew exactly what she was being punished for. I did not hurt the dog, I dicipilned the dog. There are lots of people here who just shoot the dog instead of trying to train it. I am using a shock collar for training, not punishment.

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[NancyDz]

I have two doxie mixes.. one is a lab/doxie, one is an aussie/doxie. I would never leave them unsupervised with any small animal. I was cleaning my quail brooder and they ate 2 of my baby quail when I went to answer the phone. My fault completely. I don't know what your chinchilla cage is like or what they are like as babies but it seems weird that she would be able to jump up and grab and pull a baby out of a cage if the dad was as protective as you said earlier. I wouldnt think he'd let the babies that near the edges of the cage? Can the walk on their own that young , are they like guinea pigs.. all furred and ready to go. Is it possible your daughter had the baby out or was trying to hold one? I'm just having a hard time picturing a doxie being able to jump up, get her nose in and grab one from the ground
at the perfect moment the baby was near the side of the cage which the doxie couldnt see
from the ground could she? I don't know.. sorry , just trying to picture how it could have happened.

If you want to keep her, you just have to keep them separate unless you are there watching. I don't care how much training or correction you do... I would never feel safe especially since she's had a "taste" Instinct is way stronger than anything else.

Baby gate sounds like a good idea to keep her separate.


Good luck!

Nancy