Now I'm just mad! (dog attack)

[Chihuahuamom444]

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Yea ok.....I guess you never had a dog that you loved and sometimes accidents happen and a dog that NEVER gets loose does....what a shame you'd destroy a dog on the first strike

 

[MomMommyMamma]

What is SSS?

 

[theFox]

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Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup

 

[WillieBoy]

Chihauhaumom....Wrong, i have owned plenty of dogs and cats that i loved.Thats not the issue, nor my point.It is my resposibility to be sure my pet doesn't destroy anothers livestock , period...No excuses for " accidents "..If my dog were caught destroying someones food supply, thats my fault for letting it happen.I would have no one to blame but myself for my dogs death if it were killed raiding a hen house.Thats my opinion, and thats how i protect my hens, my families food.You handle the problem your way, and i'll take care of my own.

 

[chicken_crazy93]

The way I was brought up was to protect what is yours at any cost. If a coon or possum or polecat etc... got past my traps & got inside my fenced in property then it's dooms day for them. Same goes for a dog, cat, whatever, I bought & paid for my place & sure as heck ain't gonna let nothin or nobody take it or anything on it from me. I keep a set of Bushnell binoculars & a .22 long at my back door. I own a dog & two cats. My dog stays in a 10X10X6 kennel inside my main fence unless I am outside with her. My two cats stay in the house & have never been outside in their life. I keep all my animals shots & such up to date, feed & water as I should & love my animals. It all boils down to protectin whats yours. I have had a round or two with a couple of my neighbors, had to kill a few of their cats, I killed one as he was goin accross my fence with a young pullet in it's mouth, & killed a dog or two. We still speak when we see each other but they know if anything comes on my property it will be killed. If my dog got out of her kennel, got out of the main fence & got onto a neighbors property & was messin with their livestock she should & probably would be killed. Thats just the way I am & I am a animal lover all the way.

 

[Mgui35]

So basically if its your property then its your dog. If it comes on my property then it becomes mine to do with as I please. Thats pretty harsh but when it comes to a killer canine, thats probably the best course of action. Animal control will pick it up and will end up killing it anyway at the tax payers expense. My experience has been that the dog always returns to kill again. Except for the one that we tied the dead chicken covered in cayene around its neck. That dogs owner was cool and left the chicken there. The dog grew to hate the chicken and wanted nothing more to do with chickens after that. The other curs always killed again until they were killed. Kill or have your chickens killed is the key to your chickens survival sometimes.

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

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Well the other day my dog got out of my yard because the snow is so high and he is so big he just walked on out.........So fortunately YOU are Not my neighbor because a total fluke would have cost him his life..........the mentality of some people on here is really pretty frightening

 

[galanie]

I am glad to see a thread like this that isn't full of "poor doggie" statements. A vicious killer should be dealt with, be it human or canine. I love animals too, but that's the way it is.

I had a couple of dogs that would be set free and get onto my property before I got my chickens, but I had a hole in the fence. I fixed the hole, but still saw the dogs here on occasion. I'm in the city limits but I bought a pellet gun to shoot squirrels. The timing just happened to be after I got my chickens. It's funny, but after I started plinking squirrels I stopped seeing the dogs. Lucky for the dogs that their owner thought ahead, apparently. I haven't seen them at all for seven months now, and I don't even know whose dogs they were.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Why can't you? That's exactly what I did. The neighbor raises husky/malamute cross, they frequently get out. I opened one of the coops brought the waterer to the house to fill it and heading back I saw one of the dogs in the pen killing chickens. I grabbed a 2x4 and while running to the coop the dog ran inside. Inside another dog was busy killing chickens in there. I started beating them with the 2x4 till they ran away.
I marched right over there, told her how many they had killed. One polish was laying dead at her barn. She paid me that day for the birds and shipping for new birds. They were about to start laying.
I told her they would be back now that they know where chickens are. She first had animal control pick 2 of the dogs up but when they weren't rehomed she got the dogs back cause she didn't want to have them put down.
They haven't been back yet and they won't unless she wants to keep buying expensive chicken dinner for her dogs.

If she hadn't agreed to pay I would have gone straight to the police.

After the fact, she said she wouldn't have blamed me if I had killed them. Now that the dogs are back I have the shotgun loaded on the back porch. I can't use a rifle because there is a retirement home a short way through the woods behind the coops. That's all I would need.

 

[jjthink]

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And why not?

If I knew, or if I find out, where the dog lives, I will probably go to them and let them know and see where it goes. I have no desire to start a war with our neighbors. I've read to many articles, and even posts here, about how neighborly disputes can escalate to ridiculous proportions. I won't be yelling at them, though I feel like it.

Sorry, but your birds deserve better. I agree with SS.
JJ