Hedgerow
ONE OF THE GREATEST.....LONG LEGGED MIDGETS
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I've heard the stories.. If it's your own dog and worth the effort, you can possibly "train" the urge out of em.Meh...I have a hound that's killed exactly one chicken, never did it again and never will. He's 12 yrs old and around them loose all the time.
My shepherd has done the same. I believe that was collateral damage from his urge to play with/chase everything when he was a pup. That also has been handled and he's never done it again.
We had a English Springer when I was kid, fantastic dog. He had a chicken problem until dad caught him in the act and proceeded to whoop the shít out of him with the half dead bird. That dog wouldn't so much as look at a chicken from that day on.
To say a dog should be shot on site for this is ignorant. They have prey drive, it's what makes them a dog. A hunting dog without it is useless. How it's handled after the fact is what matters.
Just never seen it work personally.
The neighbor's dog is a different story.
They just get shot and disposed of. Don't want bad feelings between neighbors.
I'm sure I am offending dog lovers all across the country, but the older I get, the less I care.