This is.....interesting....

[sillysally]

I've heard of several odd methods of dealing with chicken killing dogs, including hanging a dead chicken around the dog's neck or beating the dog with the dead chicken. However, I lurk on another forum and came across this gem:

"It didn't work with mine and I beat him with every chicken he killed, which was upwards of 10 one night (he used to jump the fence, we've electrified it since then). I actually hurt my wrist and had to wear a brace I'd beat him with so many chickens. He still kills chicken."


Wouldn't you think that after beating the dog with the first five chickens during the 10 dead chicken night that this method just wasn't working?

 

[Dogdragoness]

I dont know but I might be dealing with this soon, as I want to have backyard chickens and I have one stupid dog at home who will actively kill them if she can (I am sorry to be so mean, but I really dislike that **** dog, its my folks dog and she is the most aggravating dog on the planet and the only dog EVER I have not liked in my 20 something years of owning and working with dogs). I would say electrified fence separating them would be the only way.

 

[*blackrose]

Why...would anyone....think that would work??

 

[Annabell]

:rofl1::rofl1::rofl1::rofl1::rofl1:

Maybe I should let Fable kill my cat, beat her with it, then get another cat and put the two in the same room together and see what happens. That is obviously the best way to get her to stop trying to kill cats. *dreams of the day when Fable and kitty get along*

 

[sassafras]

Dude messed up his wrist and kept doing it, lol.

 

[Romy]

Ugh. I can't imagine hitting a dog with anything much less a dead chicken.

Something an old farmer dude neighbor swore by was taking the dead chicken and taping their mouth shut around the chicken for a day. I guess it makes sense. They'd get thirsty and hungry and miserable, and all of those associations would go with having the bird in their mouth. If it's a situation where the dog dies if it doesn't leave stock alone I can understand why someone would do something that extreme. My zois always understood that my birds were MINE and never hurt them. Strider once attacked a roaming ridgeback and ran it off when it started chasing them.

 

[CrystalGSD]

I can't believe you guys are criticizing him! I used this method for Crystal and her chicken killing has gone from 10 chickens a night to only one a week. I swear by the beat-the-dog method.

 

[Stingr69]

He needs to get the kind of chickens that can fly away from an attack.

 

[MilliesMom]

Huh, don't know about dogs because we live in the city and aren't allowed chickens. I've tried this on my husband because he's having a hard time sticking to his diet. It just doesn't seem to have the same effect.

On the plus side, the nice officer got me a LOT of recovery time for my wrist. When they let me out I'll just have to deal with that lifetime ban from Swiss Chalet. I love their dipping sauce.

 

[TexasRanger]

My uncle did the "dead chicken hanging on collar" method after his late Lab X killed one. It strangely worked.

In that situation I'd find a way to keep said dog AWAY from the chickens.

 

[Dizzy]

Backwards inbred idiot solutions. Seriously. Only stupid people can believe beating a dog with a dead chicken is some kind of training. Surely...

Round here they suggest putting sheep chasers in with a few young rams for a few minutes. Apparently they soon learn sheep aren't fun. I consider the farmers round here to be mostly backwards inbred idiots too, and the backwards inbred dog owners who allow their dogs to chase when all they need to do is put a frigging lead on the dog.

Simply solutions really do work ya know. If your dog is decimating your chickens why in the hell is it allowed loose near them?!

 

[Beanie]

Ugh. I can't imagine hitting a dog with anything much less a dead chicken.

Agreed... I mean, I'm simultaneously kind of amused by the lunacy of this and horrified by the whole thing. Just... what?

Simply solutions really do work ya know. If your dog is decimating your chickens why in the hell is it allowed loose near them?!

Right? I mean... I just fail to understand this on so many levels. IT'S SO SIMPLE.
What.

 

[AllieMackie]

"It didn't work with mine and I beat him with every chicken he killed, which was upwards of 10 one night (he used to jump the fence, we've electrified it since then). I actually hurt my wrist and had to wear a brace I'd beat him with so many chickens. He still kills chicken."

I could not. Stop. Laughing.

It's awful and I feel terribly for that dog. But that line. I couldn't handle it.

Here we thought rubbing a dog's nose in its own poop was bad...

 

[pinkspore]

:rofl1::rofl1::rofl1::rofl1::rofl1:

Maybe I should let Fable kill my cat, beat her with it, then get another cat and put the two in the same room together and see what happens. That is obviously the best way to get her to stop trying to kill cats. *dreams of the day when Fable and kitty get along*

There probably at least one thread in the training section about how I taught Brisbane to not eat cats. He has such a strong positive association with them that he will stoically tolerate them self-petting under his chin in the hopes that he will get a treat.

 

[JacksonsMom]

I can't believe you guys are criticizing him! I used this method for Crystal and her chicken killing has gone from 10 chickens a night to only one a week. I swear by the beat-the-dog method.

:rofl1:

 

[PlottMom]

Why...would anyone....think that would work??

You should lurk on the coonhound forums..

 

[Jadex]

You should lurk on the coonhound forums..

OMG. I've tried. I just couldn't anymore. I gave up on those forums.

 

[Annabell]

There probably at least one thread in the training section about how I taught Brisbane to not eat cats. He has such a strong positive association with them that he will stoically tolerate them self-petting under his chin in the hopes that he will get a treat.

I'll go find that! I have tried so many ways to get Fable to stop trying to eat Jazmin, but I'm honestly at my whit's end. The past five months or so have just been C&R between the two because I don't want to risk anything happening to the cat. I've kind of given up on the two ever getting along, but this gives me new hope. How bad was Brisbane around the cats? I honestly have never met a dog that is more intent on eating a cat than Fable is, but maybe he had a similar reaction to hers, in which case that thread would really help out.

 

[pinkspore]

You should lurk on the coonhound forums..

I went down that rabbit hole once...it was a strange trip. I learned that controversy in coonhound training is pretty much limited to whether we should be hitting them with sticks or zapping them with shock collars, and
I saw a "prong collar" that was basically a leather strap studded with tacks, and...and...(I live on the beach in California, where nobody has hunting dogs, hounds are rare breeds, and people like this literally do not exist for hundreds of miles.)

How bad was Brisbane around the cats?

Briz was raised with the cats but was repeatedly attacked by one my brother brought home. When he brought home the next one, Briz foofed up and made demonic noises at it from across the room. Because my brother is autistic and couldn't handle any deviation from "cat has free access to entire house at all times", I ended up keeping Briz in a head halter anytime there wasn't a closed door between them. He got a treat every time he saw or heard the cat, and I would use the clicker and click him for looking at her. After three months he was absolutely convinced that the cat meant food, and it translated to future cats as well as other pets including my cockatiel crash-landing on his head while he was sleeping. It has been eight years and I still give him a treat almost every day for existing while the cats do cat things.

 

[Steve Wisley]

I am not sure I should even wade in on this one. It seems to me that sometimes the dogs is smarter than the people. I have lived on or around farms and animals for the majority of my life...which has been a long time. If you have an animal, like a dog, which can sometimes harm another animal, like chickens, you keep the two apart. You provide fencing for the chickens that a dog cannot get through and every one is happy. I don't think beating a dog with anything is a very good solution.