One less dog in the neighborhood!

[timburgin]

my uncle had to make that same choice, but it was his own dog and his own chickens, over and over, all dogs go to heaven right?

 

[TexasVet]

Point taken about the title of the post, but it wasn't meant to express joy. Rather, it was intended to be a sad reminder of what happens if you can't control your animals.

I doubt that the Humane Society would involve itself in this situation... her animals are well fed and have adequate shelter and water. There many, many animals with more dire situations and very few people to check up on them.

To repeat... the neighbor was not upset about it. She reminded me about the several times that she's told me to shoot the dog if it's caught killing birds. She shoots at dogs that come over to attack her baby goats, so she should have been more on top of this situaiton.

I can guarantee you she'd shoot my chickens if they came over to her house 5 or 6 times and killed a few of her cats every time they did.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[Judy]

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That about says it all, IMHO.

And I thought your thread title sounded like you were a bit sad about it.

 

[blueoval1]

I agree that you have to do what you have to do. It just upset me that you told her she was going huting, I dont know that just hit me the wrong way, My graddad has done the samething

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Ya know. Those of you who are shocked at the thought of killing a dog. Think about this.

You get home in the afternoon and hear the horror of screaming chickins being attacked and killed.

You see a pack of dogs chasing and biting and shaking and barking at your flock that you have raised from babies.

What is your next move ?

Call the sherrif and tell them to come on down and pick the dogs up (while it is still killing). Call the pound and tell them you "have a problem, could they come pick up a dog and RETURN it to it's owner ,still killing)

OR, would you go get whatever deterent you have to ward the dogs off your flock, some of which are dropping dead from fright !!!

I have witnessed this and I will be darn if i will allow this to happen any time soon again.

Sure, it is instinct to chase and kill, but does this make it OK with you all that seem to be on the side of the dogs ??

I do not hate dogs, I do not hate cats. I do hate goats.
I even feel a bit taken back when I kill the racoons, the possums, the rats and the foxes.

We live in a very rural area. Our neighbors know that their dogs will be shot. We know our dog will be shot. It is the way of the land and this is just the way it has to be.

Dogs can be a VERY fierce and formidable entity, especially in packs.

Try pidking up the carcasses of your favorite roo or your favorite hen. Try picling up the carnage from the kill of a pack of dogs. IT IS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT.

Dogs will just not stop. They will kill and kill until every thing they can kill will be killed. This is NOT a meal, it is "instinct". At least a fox will kill and take the carcass to their young. At least they will stop.

In this end, if an owner can not control or train their animal, is it really the animals fault that they run unbridled ?

HERE IS MY ANSWER..... If one can not own an animal and do the correct thing, then they should not have that animal. If they are warned, it is even worse. Responsible dog ownership is the ONLY gaurantee that the dog will survive. Would you turn your teen age kid loose in a car unbridled, untrained and never looked after ??
Eventually, they would have a problem. They may get lucky and the court system will give them back to you. If you do not rectify the problem, they will either die or kill.

 

[tharrell]

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I'm probably the exception to the rule, but I grew up in a suburb of San Diego, I have always been very much a city girl (eventhough I've always dreamed of my own piece of land for my son and pets to roam on). Even now I still live in a good sized city, right in the suburbs. I'm the one who used to yell at people when I was young for killing ants, but even I have sense enough to know that the right decision was made in this situation. My husband last year got his dream dog, a husky. I trained this dog, and raised him from an 8 week old puppy. I'm very expierienced in dog training, in fact I'm raising a service dog puppy right now. However, I couldn't break him of his pray drive and when I saw him in my backyard with my favorite hen in his mouth I lost it. We don't own a gun, but if we did I might have been tempted. Instead I locked him in a kennel and left him there until my husband got home and found him a new home. I was so angry, and I can imagine how different things would have been if I lived in the country.

But I guess what I'm saying is not everyone from "the city" has the same views. I atleast have some common sense.

 

[SpringChickens]

I'm sorry it had to come down to that, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your animals. Good job, it's not always easy

 

[blueoval1]

I think you could have beat the dog I know that sounds harsh but its better than killing it and then that way it will know that it had done something wrong, But the dog that was shot had no idea it had done something wrong. It was just doing what was natural. I would have killed the dog If I had caught him in the act and didnt have any other way to stop him,

 

[EweSheep]

Sorry you had to deal with a friendly lab. You have to do what you need to do. I would have done the same thing as well, shoot the dog.

 

[TexasVet]

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I told her we were going hunting to get her to follow me and to expect something pleasant. She's a hunting dog, after all. I didn't see any point or positive outcome to scaring the dog before putting it down.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com