PLANNED POULTRY GUARDING DOG

[CandleGal]

I have really enjoyed this information. It sounds like you and Scoob are a wonderful team! My in-laws have GSHP and they are excellent bird dogs from what I am told. FIL is a big time hunter. I really enjoy the dogs around the yards but I always thought them high strung and flighty so I am very impressed with Scoob. I will have to show them this information, maybe their breeder can find a puppy that will be useful around my birds as well. Thank you for the great descriptions.

 

[centrarchid]

I have really enjoyed this information. It sounds like you and Scoob are a wonderful team! My in-laws have GSHP and they are excellent bird dogs from what I am told. FIL is a big time hunter. I really enjoy the dogs around the yards but I always thought them high strung and flighty so I am very impressed with Scoob. I will have to show them this information, maybe their breeder can find a puppy that will be useful around my birds as well. Thank you for the great descriptions.

Scoob is high energy as well and can be bone-headed. The larger, enriched environment keeps him mentally stimulated and physically expended. Even after oppossum last night Scoob was on run going everywhere after something. My sister and sister-in-law each have one of Scoob's brothers. They are also very smart but also live the city dog life. So confined they have so odd habits but otherwise can can still operate like a pointer. Neither could I trust around poultry. I do not think it is a puppy selection process is as important as the puppy training process. Latter obviously takes more time and can operate with or without fancy pedigree.

 

[centrarchid]

SCOOB PENS A MUCH LARGER DOG COMING IN TO CHASE CHICKENS


Today when got home from work I promptly got to business of moving breeding roosters about to cover different hens. Scoob assists by being a nuisance but does occasionally help get a rooster that overwalks pen I want him to visit to turn back to my desired pen. During process Scoob bolted off growling behind me towards where a free-ranging group of about 20 juveniles normally loaf. The juveniles started running making their alarm calls making me think Scoob was back to his old habit of chicken bowling. I turned around and saw neighbors black male German sheperd going go after birds. Sheperd is a known quantity that weighs between 80 and 90 lbs. Scoob was on him in a flash first biting him at base of tail then when sheperd turned around to counter Scoob rolled him over and held him down by collar and scruff with control maintained until I got there to grab both and pull them apart before things got nasty, I had to be careful because I could get bitten even by my own dog and its hard for me to get mad at anybody but myself about that. Shortly thereafter neighbors came to collect dog as they were concerned for his safety. Dog has killed a couple of my red jungle fowl x game stags and a California gray hen last fall so I was a bit displeased about this visit. They just got home and he beat them apparently when they were taking out to his tie.

Neighbors are working on getting dog under control and have good intentions so I cut that dog some slack as any other in same situation have me killing it with my hands which is less pleasant than other preferred methods.

Scoob did good. He is starting to get ballsy like a mature dog. Pup apprentice will be acquired very soon.

 

[lgelwell]

I very much enjoy reading this thread. I have an old lady German Shorthair who, unfortunately, cannot be around the chickens due to her insatiable appetite for all things with feathers. Your stories remind me of her old days, especially with the opossums. I can't say enough about how much I love this breed!

 

[centrarchid]

New pup which will be picked this Friday will be a female German Long-haired Pointer. Supposedly very similar in all aspects. I like these guys very much as well. Previously I was going to get an Anitolian but the smarts and energy of these guys I think can get the job done as well. They will also be better playmate for son.

 

[centrarchid]

GOT A STRIPED SKUNK, WISH DID NOT

I was out applying wing-bands when hearing Scoob open up on something at neighbors so went inside, fetched rifle and walked over expecting to find Scoob treeing a raccoon or opossum. It became evident that Scoob had something cornered in some waist high weeds behind chicken house. If it were coon or opossum Scoob would have already been in there getting job done but for some reason Scoob would not commit. As I got closer it was obvious critter was not big. About time I got light beam on target it became clear Scoob had a skunk and then he went in attacked it. He killed it extremely quickly and was throwing it high with each shake. He got sprayed and I got juiced on leg. Skunk was young and very quickly torn up. Hopefully skunks will not be regulars on Scoob's hit list. Scoob normally comes into house periodically through night but this may not go for a few days. Sucker stinks just like the road kill version I pass on motorcycle way more than I like.

I edited while conscious this morning. Scoob and I both need the special batch to remove skunk juice, otherwise we may be looking for another wife or at least sleeping out in doghouse for a while.

 

[Daisy8s]

GOT A STRIPED SKUNK, WISH DID NOT

Ugh, my dog got sprayed twice within a few weeks--stupid dog. I tried a bunch of stuff and what worked best was something called Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover. You have to let it sit on and soak for a good while, which is difficult around the face. But, it did the job and my dog is almost smell free after two applications (she has very long hair so I shaved her and reapplied and that got the last of the smell). I still get a whiff if she gets wet, but it's not bad.

The second time she got hit I was out with her and when she came running back to me and oils wafted over onto me, too. I was so mad--I had to get in the tub with her, clothes and all, and soak in the stuff, too. She spent the entire 5 minute soaking period at her end of the tub with her head hanging trying to avoid me, sitting at my end of the tub glaring hatefully at her! It's funny now but it sure wasn't then.

Good luck! Oh, I found the stuff at my local Petsmart, not sure where else it might be sold.

 

[mong7769]

Another thing that works well, again, except around the face, is baking soda, peroxide and dish soap. Make a paste with the baking soda/dish soap. Work that into the fir or onto your skin and then dump peroxide over the whole mess and let the acid/base reaction bubble all over and break up the oil. I followed it up with a shampoo on the dog afterwards. It got rid of the majority of the problem. Our dog got sprayed between the eyes though so we had some smell for a little while because I didn't want to put it that close to her eyes.

~Mellisa

 

[canesisters]

For future reference, Murphy's Oil Soap and cold water does a great job on skunk smell. I'm not real sure HOW it works, and sometimes it takes multiple baths - but it gets the stink down to a tolerable level.

 

[centrarchid]

Dog tolerable now enough to be allowed back into house. He got much out by rolling in dust and high grass but shampoo got almost back to roses again.