RIP young Joe...:(

[esjro]

So sorry to hear about Joe.

I have a lab/border collie mix and he is awful with the chickens or anything that stimulates his prey drive. I thought about trying to train him out of it, but I don't want to take the risk that he'll make a mistake so now our house is run by a separate but equal pet philosophy.

I worry a lot that I'll slip up though and something will happen.... all it takes is a second. Bless your heart for forgiving your doggie too.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

So sorry about Joe.

 

[daytonfarm]

I know I will get blasted for this, but I have a dog with a very strong prey drive, he tried to kill our goats and baby lambs and even took on the pony. With directions from a very skilled trainer we used a shock collar on him. At the most we had to shock him twice and then for about a month the collar just stayed on him when he was out there. He is now the animals protector the lambs come up to him and he cleans their faces. When we got chickens (they were already laying) I knew we would have a problem, he got 1 shock and that was all he needed now he is perfectly safe, the chickens are very protected they can even make him move away from them. The chickens free range and the dog will hang with them. The shock was no more then a hefty static shock you get from clothes, but he doesn't have alot of fur so he didn't need much. We did hold the collar and shock ourselves to see how bad it was. It made me drop the collar. Anyway the dog is happy the animals are happy and they are living peacfully together. I have a dog that can run around the farm and I have animals that don't fear him.

 

[jjthink]

Very sad - poor little guy. Since I don't have the time to train a dog to be beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt safe around my birds, there will be no dogs while I have birds. RIP little Joe.
JJ

 

[artsyrobin]

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so maybe it kicked in his hunt instincts- although he leaves my other birds alone-