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[Miltonchix]

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Mine does too. While I'm watching. Leave her alone and...............dead birds. And she KNOWS its wrong. When I found the half duck buried in the flower bed she KNEW she was a "bad dog". I didn't have to say anything to her. She was trying to hide as soon as she saw it. This was a week after it had been killed. DW and I had asssumed it was an owl or a hawk. Feathers scattered everwhere, inards eaten. We didn't even suspect the dog until I found the buried half.

 

[frozenchick]

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I agree! I have a 6 year old German Shephard and he's the best watch dog I've ever had. He guards my property, horses, and birds. He's so gentle with the birds it's amazing. The chickens aren't allowed in the barn with my horses because I have enough poop to clean up with the 7 equines. If a chicken wanders in the barn, he'll just pick it up and gently deposit it back outside or in the coop. He's been doing it since he was a puppy. I've never ever had a problem with him. The chickens are so used to him that some of them will snuggle up to him if he falls asleep outside.

If you know your german shephard is trustworthy, by all means let her out and hope she gets that horrible predator. That's what I had to do earlier this year to "discourage" the neighbor's dog from helping himself to a chicken dinner. It worked!

 

[Oblio13]

Was the head eaten? How about the crop?