bryn27 89 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 8 year old collie cross killed it's first chicken yesterday and I had to belt it with a fence board to let go.Seems he likes killing birds today as he's just sneaked off and done the laying birds at roost. Not a working dog more a pet but something has changed in him lately and he has become aggressive and very nervy. Family not happy with me but he is a gonner tomorrow but a vet bill beckons instead of a bullet. Quote Link to post
Casso 1,261 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Dogs were designed by nature to be killers, I don't know why people are amazed when they actually kill something , Dogs are neither good or bad , they are only processing what they feel inside, the chickens cause excitement in the dog , when a dog can't act on that excitement ,it's stored inside like a kettle slowly boiling , if that energy/excitement is not channelled into some other prey making activity , it will eventually boil over leading in your case to dead chickens , the dog hasn't turned his prey making nature hasn't been honoured , 9 Quote Link to post
foresterj 1,096 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 If you hit me with a fekkin fence board I'd be aggressive and nervy. 1 Quote Link to post
mushroom 12,896 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 If you hit me with a fekkin fence board I'd be aggressive and nervy. I'd say so Quote Link to post
trenchfoot 4,243 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Anybody who needs to bray an 8 month old pup with a board to get something off it should look at keeping something other than dogs. Sea monkeys would be about the limit! 1 Quote Link to post
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Anybody who needs to bray an 8 month old pup with a board to get something off it should look at keeping something other than dogs. Sea monkeys would be about the limit! 8 years bud... Quote Link to post
trenchfoot 4,243 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Anybody who needs to bray an 8 month old pup with a board to get something off it should look at keeping something other than dogs. Sea monkeys would be about the limit! 8 years bud... eye test needed, but my sentiment remains the same 1 Quote Link to post
Phil Lloyd 10,738 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Its strange that a collie dog gets to 8 years, without crunching a chuck,..then suddenly turns rogue Unfortunately, if the dog needed some shiplap treatment before it would let its prize go,..I cannot see it taking to chicken watching ever again... Poor wee critter,..something has obviously gone drastically wrong oop top.... 1 Quote Link to post
bryn27 89 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 He's in the last chance saloon and a rotten board was favourable to what he would have got if it had been a ewe. Quote Link to post
bryn27 89 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Anybody who needs to bray an 8 month old pup with a board to get something off it should look at keeping something other than dogs. Sea monkeys would be about the limit! 8 years bud... eye test needed, but my sentiment remains the same 8 years and built like a brick shithouse! what you just let him clean your entire flock out until he gets board ffs? Quote Link to post
Giro 2,648 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 I rather have my dog than a scabby choock.. 1 Quote Link to post
bryn27 89 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 That's your choice, I wont have any dog that disobeys and kills at will regardless of how long I've had him. Quote Link to post
Giro 2,648 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 You canny think much of the dog, if your response is to beat it & then put it to sleep.. 1 Quote Link to post
stroller 341 Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 the dog could be sick, as in brain tumour sick. A change in nature like this often points to physiological changes 4 Quote Link to post
fitchet 788 Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Had a shepheard do the same after years of daily interactions with chickens even seen him retreat to his box when one of the aseels have fluffed upto him. A week or so later after killing the chickens he very badly bit someone he'd known since a pup so there was only one thing for him. Hope you get it sorted mate. Quote Link to post
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