My dog just killed my two cochins

[hikerchick]

He is a boxer - never showed killer instincts before; but I have always shooed him away from the chickens anyway. This I time I didn't notice. My daughter and I were both out there not 10 feet away and saw and heard nothing..but we found the bodies and he was the only predator even close to them. This is my first loss. It is painful.

 

[Mahonri]

Tie them around his neck or beat him with their dead bodies. Then, hopefully he won't do it again.

 

[Sock Puppet]

Sorry that happened to you.

 

[hen-thusiast]

Sorry for your loss

 

[nzpouter]

if you don't hear anything, you need to hold a sec before you get to the conclusion it was your dog, unless you see them walking one minute and dead the next.

Chickens makes a lot of noise while being killed, and even when the first one died instantly, the second will be running and screaming when it happens.

 

[hikerchick]

The dog was in the yard; we walked past the chickens; then the dog was on the deck and two dead chickens were next to the deck. It was literally seconds that this happened in. If it were any other predator the dog would have barked at it.

 

[island.girlie]

Put him on his back and hold him there. Don't let him squirm away. Then, take a live chicken and put it in his face and loudly tell him "NO". Give him a good fling of the finger to his nose and let him smell the chicken all at the same time while you tell him "NO". Remember to keep him on his back while you do this. You have to show dominance over him. You may need assistance in having someone hold the chicken. This is how we taught our pit bull, who attempted to stalk them at the beginning. Now she completely ignores them. It worked for us. BTW, sorry for your loss.

P.S. Don't beat your dog with the dead chicken

 

[Cetawin]

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Indeed. tie the chickens around his neck tight enough he cannot get them off, tie his butt to a tree so he has shade, food and water. Let them rot right on him. worked for my black and tan coonhound years ago after she killed about 6 chickens.

 

[cmjust0]

My dad tied a dead chicken around a chicken killing dog's neck once until it rotted off.. It continued killing chickens. Next time, he beat the daylights out of the dog with the dead chicken...it kept killing chickens. Finally, he wrapped electric fence wire around a dead chicken, tossed it into the dog's house, and turned the fence on. When the dog tried to get out, it was repeatedly shocked by the dead chicken.

Next time a chicken walked by the dog's house, the dog snapped its head off just like every other time a chicken walked by.

He wasn't going to get rid of the dog, so he got rid of the chickens and that was that.

I'm not sure what the moral of the story is there, but if I had a dog that killed chickens and I wanted to keep the dog, I'd skip right over the part where you basically abuse the dog with dead chickens to try to break it and get right down to the real solution....which, of course, is to keep the dog away from the chickens and vice versa.

 

[The Chicken People]

Sorry for your loss..