Doublete
Songster
I’m upset with myself and with my dogs...
I adopted them in July of last year... they are now 3 (feb 28) litterMate German shepherds. The first year of their lives they were left alone in crates and not socialized.
The couple that adopted them had a tragedy (the woman died giving birth and the man just couldn’t handle baby and pups).
They are extremely wonderful with humans... but with animals... I don’t trust them.. they don’t know how to be around large animals... my horse pastures are fenced with no climb wire and the dogs can’t get in. My two goats live with a horse and have wire on the bottom of the cattle panels... but lately the one goat has figured out how to get out to eat grass. She slides under. But she knows to run from the dogs. So today I saw her out, however she was only ten feet from her opening so I held the dogs and yelled her name to warn her and then let the dogs out. Instead of running for her opening she ran around the pen in fear and the dogs packed on her. It was awful. It took me ten minutes to separate the dogs from her because each time I got one dog the other went back. And one would listen to a command but when she saw her sister it was all over for me.
They tore her ear and did make her bleed on her leg but no obvious injuries anywhere else. She has extremely thick coat so I’m hoping it helps her.
I locked the dogs up and then took wound spray and vetwrap and cleaned her up. I wrapped her leg.
She’s
Moving around and eating.
I just feel so bad because she is the sweetest goat in the world and wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Now I have to figure out the dogs... this cannot happen again.
I adopted them in July of last year... they are now 3 (feb 28) litterMate German shepherds. The first year of their lives they were left alone in crates and not socialized.
The couple that adopted them had a tragedy (the woman died giving birth and the man just couldn’t handle baby and pups).
They are extremely wonderful with humans... but with animals... I don’t trust them.. they don’t know how to be around large animals... my horse pastures are fenced with no climb wire and the dogs can’t get in. My two goats live with a horse and have wire on the bottom of the cattle panels... but lately the one goat has figured out how to get out to eat grass. She slides under. But she knows to run from the dogs. So today I saw her out, however she was only ten feet from her opening so I held the dogs and yelled her name to warn her and then let the dogs out. Instead of running for her opening she ran around the pen in fear and the dogs packed on her. It was awful. It took me ten minutes to separate the dogs from her because each time I got one dog the other went back. And one would listen to a command but when she saw her sister it was all over for me.
They tore her ear and did make her bleed on her leg but no obvious injuries anywhere else. She has extremely thick coat so I’m hoping it helps her.
I locked the dogs up and then took wound spray and vetwrap and cleaned her up. I wrapped her leg.
She’s
Moving around and eating.
I just feel so bad because she is the sweetest goat in the world and wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Now I have to figure out the dogs... this cannot happen again.