my dog did it and this time it was brutal!!

[watchdogps]

Even young LGD breeds (which she is not) need supervision for a long time, so yes she still has hope. HOWEVER - she is a dog made of herding breeds and herding IS PREY DRIVE under control. If you arent there to guide it, she doesnt know what to do.
As for her "knowing" what she did -nope, she knew you were mad. Dont think she couldnt tell from the second you opened the door. Dogs are masters of body language and can read you from the angle of your pinky finger. To prove this, they have done studies where a dog was taken out of a room, a turd placed in the room and the owner returned and gave no indication of anger. The dog still acted "guilty". It even did it when the turd didnt belong to that dog! The dogs had simply learned that when a turd was on the floor the owner would be angry.

 

[sunket77]

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This is a good suggestion. I actually got a collar to work with her this way, it has a vibrate mode also for an extra warning before a shock. I have gone out and worked with a couple of times with the collar mostly using the vibrate mode (shocked her once after vibrate so vibrate worked well after that) She did not associate me with the shock, I hid the remote behind me or in my pocket so she can't see it. The main thing I am concerned about is that she is on a wireless fence system which makes a beep and the shocks if she get out of the boundary. It works wonderfully she refuses to go near her boundary so I usually leave it on the lowest setting. I am just worried I will confuse her since it is the same sensation as her static shock collar she wears for her fence. I may try and really work with her using it but always using vibrate before shock, and try to remain where she can't see me but I can see her. I just concerns me because every time she has gotten a chicken it has been circumstantial, always a mistake or broken run, things like that. I just want to keep training her on the chance that they will at some point be together again by mistake. I have over 50 chickens and 4 runs, human error is likely going to occur again.

We have a hen that refuses to stay in the run and will not return to it at night. She stays in the yard and sleeps in the trees. I watch her while my dog is laying there she walks right by and my dog doesn't give her a second glance. She went broody a while back so I put her to use and gave her some eggs I wanted hatched and she lived there on the porch. However, I had to go out every day and pick her up off the nest to go poop, she wouldn't get up unless I made her. So I would take her and set her down on the porch she would walk down, dust bathe and poop. BUT if my dog came on the porch while she was coming or going the hen would out right attack my dog and send her running off the porch. My dog is so afraid of this chicken she watches her while she eats her dog food out of her bowl. I just wish I could train all the other chickens to attack LOL! instead of squat for my dog...yes they treat her like she is a rooster, if she runs up instead of running they squat. If I had a protective rooster that would probably work accept protective roosters usually don't work out well for humans either.

 

[watchdogps]

they do make remote control citronella collars - look up spray commander