Ready to shoot the rooster! - Page 2

Thomas, what is your point about me needing advice on a dog with an abcessed jaw? Are you trying to say I don't know squat about dogs and shouldn't even have them?(sounds like you are) For the record, no, that was a puppy, this is an adult dog.  If the dog in the pictures on the other post has been here for four years she's had a growing problem.   When someone starts a topic with......ready to shoot the rooster......I claimed I wasn't serious about taking the dog down there......I wouldn't take the dog down there because I know what would happen to my dog.  For the record, this is the first time I've been having a problem like this. You take on a pack of Huskies when it comes to real, live prey, and lets see how well you can control them. These dogs are extremely well trained in many aspects, this is just not something that you "can work on".....You don't just walk around roosters and chickens on a daily basis where you can train around them.  I train dogs for people, with no problem, and I work with dogs every day... Sure I might have a problem with my own at some point, but it's a learning experience. 

Aside from that, Thomas, did you read the comment on the other post where I mentioned what happened with the "abscess"?   That's the first one ever on any of my dogs, so of course I didn't know what it was or what to do. Live and learn.

GSDguy08

You are way too defensive and tend to go off on tangents.
You also make a lot of assumptions based on a one sentence observation of the puppy with the abcessed
jaw. Just because the abcess broke on it's own does't mean it wouldn't be a good idea to have it looked at by a professional. Good luck with your dogs and your fence but I see little to be gained in continuing this discussion.

Thomas Barriano

GSDGuy, I'm not sure, but I think I remember one person saying something (in relation to the dogs visiting your property) about having a motion sensing sprinkler system installed? I really don't know how far away the rooster is from your property (mainly from your waterline spigot) but is there any chance you spray the rooster with water? My best friend growing up had chickens. One, Travis was a mean old rooster, one time he got out of the coop and tried to attack my friend, her father grabbed the water hose and sprayed him, he never escaped that coop again. He HATED the water. I don't mean that my friend's father had the hose set to that ultra fine needle point, but he just hosed the rooster down, and that was sufficient.

Dobermannman, how many times have ANY of us threatened to "kill", "throtle", etc... our dogs for doing something stupid? Have any of us actually done it, I certainly hope not, but I suspect no. Words said out of anger are just that, said out of anger. I don't think anyone would want to risk their dog to try to take on a rooster, those bastards have some nasty talons on them not to mention some sharp ass beaks, that could cause a lot of damage to a dog, and GSDGuy seems smart enough to know not to risk any of his pooches, let alone himself.

Thomas, too defensive? Probably so. I apologize for that, and the assumptions. I'm just so use to seeing how others have been treated on here in the past for asking a question. Often times goes into a neverending bashing towards the person who asked a question.  Thanks for your imput on everything.

Thomas, I was being sarcastic. GSDguy08 and I have been talking about this on another thread :)

And I am the one that mentioned the motion activated sprinklers, but from what he described, it seems to be quite a
distance from his house.

Chicken soup anyone ;)

Melissa

as with dogs/cats/horses/cows...and everything else, the owners are required to keep their stock on their property.

send the county health officials out to check the flock for bird flu, worms and or everything else they can do. ask the healt officials to make sure the owners understand its the owner's responsibility to contain them.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044 http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/disparas.htm 
http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/Zoonoses/TableZoonoticDiseases/

get live traps and trap them, and have animal controll pick them up. when the owner comes to get them tell them they have to go to animal controll to bail them out...

or just let it be.....

from my experiences, chickens make for bad neighbors.....

I guess buying some fancy feathered chickens and then shooting the rooster when he crosses the road to get to the other side, just won't work with this one!

Seriously SitasMom Animal Control and Bird Flu ? What ever happened to a knock on a door or containing your own dogs. Poor Rooster.

you could always run a hot wire around the very bottom of your fence, the shock isn't enough to hurt the dogs but typically sends the msg very quickly. They get hit once and typically leave it alone, you don't even have to turn it on every day after that.  I had one at one point, periodically you would see the dogs listening to see if it was on so I would flip it on for a few days.  I don't even have it on the fence anymore but nobody tries the bottom anymore.