It was suggested that I post this here as well since it's more local. If there's a better place for it, please let me know and I will put it there instead. Also posted here - https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ing-northeast-oklahoma.1221358/#post-19551811
In a rough spot with my LGD and sadly, I need to find him a new home where he can be safe without having to be tied up or penned up. As stated in that post, we've had trouble with unreasonable neighbors that refuse to even try to talk about the situation and come up with any kind of compromise. It's just straight up threats of shooting him and nothing else. I've even offered to bring him over on leash for them to meet him and get to know him and that was a no go. Other neighbors have had the same threats and have had to tie their dogs or pen them up as well.
He isn't being aggressive, not chasing their horses or digging out trash or digging holes in their yard or anything of that nature. That would be understandable and I would deal with it but he isn't and this is the icing on the cake of 30+ years of unreasonable behavior from them and a dog just doing what comes natural to his breed is paying for it.
He's currently on a 40ft run between duck pens where he can be safe but still keep an eye on his flock. I do have another LGD that minds the in ground fence and stays where she is safe but he doesn't mind it at all. We've repeated the training several times, put on the longer prongs, upped the intensity, everything. We've tried everything short of putting up no-climb horse fence around the entire property which is not feasible any time soon.
He was born December 2016 to working parents and has been around all manner of livestock since he was born. He's been with us since Feb 2017 and has never "played" with any of the birds or been rough with them. He shares his dog food with them and breaks up any scuffles in the yard. We've not lost a single bird to a predator or even seen any signs of anything with him on the job. He will occasionally snag an egg but doesn't go into the nests to get them. He sees them as fair game if we drop one or a hen lays one out in the open. He does dig in the dirt for a cool spot when it's really hot but other than that, not a digger. He doesn't dig through trash or dig under fences. He just roams during the day and stays real close at night. He's super playful and loves to wrestle with other dogs. He will let my birds walk all over him and the geese bite him often and he never bats an eye.
I'm hoping someone can give him a safer home where he doesn't have to be tied up. We're near the Tulsa/Stillwater area.
In a rough spot with my LGD and sadly, I need to find him a new home where he can be safe without having to be tied up or penned up. As stated in that post, we've had trouble with unreasonable neighbors that refuse to even try to talk about the situation and come up with any kind of compromise. It's just straight up threats of shooting him and nothing else. I've even offered to bring him over on leash for them to meet him and get to know him and that was a no go. Other neighbors have had the same threats and have had to tie their dogs or pen them up as well.
He isn't being aggressive, not chasing their horses or digging out trash or digging holes in their yard or anything of that nature. That would be understandable and I would deal with it but he isn't and this is the icing on the cake of 30+ years of unreasonable behavior from them and a dog just doing what comes natural to his breed is paying for it.
He's currently on a 40ft run between duck pens where he can be safe but still keep an eye on his flock. I do have another LGD that minds the in ground fence and stays where she is safe but he doesn't mind it at all. We've repeated the training several times, put on the longer prongs, upped the intensity, everything. We've tried everything short of putting up no-climb horse fence around the entire property which is not feasible any time soon.
He was born December 2016 to working parents and has been around all manner of livestock since he was born. He's been with us since Feb 2017 and has never "played" with any of the birds or been rough with them. He shares his dog food with them and breaks up any scuffles in the yard. We've not lost a single bird to a predator or even seen any signs of anything with him on the job. He will occasionally snag an egg but doesn't go into the nests to get them. He sees them as fair game if we drop one or a hen lays one out in the open. He does dig in the dirt for a cool spot when it's really hot but other than that, not a digger. He doesn't dig through trash or dig under fences. He just roams during the day and stays real close at night. He's super playful and loves to wrestle with other dogs. He will let my birds walk all over him and the geese bite him often and he never bats an eye.
I'm hoping someone can give him a safer home where he doesn't have to be tied up. We're near the Tulsa/Stillwater area.
