STUPID DOG! Why dont people keep track of their dogs? grrr!

[Chicken Fruit]

I checked on my chickens tonight at 6pm. They were happily doing their chicken thing in the back where they live. I took my son for a walk around the village and once on the other side I heard my rooster freaking out, and my hen cackling like she'd just laid an egg. So I figured the boys had been fighting and my biddy laid me and egg and decided to run home and hunt out my egg.

I came up the back way just in time to see the neighbors burmease (sp?) mountain dog running down the ledge from my chicken yard, one of my light brahma roosters white feathers clinging to his lips.

We just spent two hours finding my chickens. thankfully everyone is well except for my BEAUTIFUL ee rooster that I was keeping to show and breed. His pictures are on another post, I was trying to name him.

UGH! I am so irritated. Iam going to start keeping them in our solid 7 foot wood fence from now on. I even helped to chase the dog down for the neighbor too, not know he had EATEN my prized rooster.

What a good rooster though, he was always super quiet, and didnt crow, didnt harass the hens... just existed. Well let me tell you what, he may have been small but he gave his all protecting those hens. His feathers are EVERYWHERE out there. From where he had been chased by the dog.

I hope theres a special reward in animal heaven for creatures that give their best at their calling. Because that little rooster definitely did his job.

here's his picture as a little 6 week cockrel. He was missing his fancy plumage.

 

[cassie]

People don't keep track of their dogs for the same reason they don't keep track of their children. There have been days I couldn't decide which was worse.....

 

[trilyn]

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You ain't kiddin'

Edited to add-I'm so sorry for your loss!! *hugs*

 

[speckledhen]

I'm so sorry. I swear, I have to stay out of this section entirely for awhile. I feel ill every time I hear these stories. Roosters do have a calling and most of them give their lives to do what they were meant to do, protect the girls. Darn, I'd better shut my mouth before I say anything else here. I'm really sorry. I hope you'll make the neighbors pay restitution for this.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

I'd love to just throw these pregnancy hormones into high gear and go ream them out for their dogs actions, but honestly this is the first time its ever happened. Their dog managed to get under the fence while gramma was watching the kids and house alone. And i had them outside my main solid wood fence, kept in by just plastic poultry netting. It had worked FOREVER and it never was an issue.

But theres a first time for everything. So now they will live INSIDE the main yard. We'll just have to wear shoes from now on.

 

[TexasVet]

Don't give up hope yet. Most dogs don't eat the birds, they just chase and kill them. There's a chance your roo made an escape sans a few tail feathers and is waiting until the coast is clear to come back home. I once had one show up a week after an attack.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[Chicken Fruit]

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nope he's dead. We burried him already. Poor fella.

 

[Big C]

Sorry for your loss. The predator will come back. She/He knows where the food is.
Did you call the police?

Personally, I would have shot it cold dead, disposed of the carcase and left the neighbors wondering where their dog had run off to...

 

[lurky]

I'm sorry for your loss

Your post title should really be stupid people. The dog is probably smarter than they are. I wish people were more responsible

 

[speckledhen]

I understand that accidents happen and on occasion a dog who never gets out will escape. Still, if it was my own dog who had done it, I'd definitely feel I owed you something monetary, in addition to a big apology and a determination that it would never happen again. I'm sorry. He was a handsome guy.