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<blockquote data-quote="Lannie" data-source="post: 1719921" data-attributes="member: 8202"><p>We didn't have the benefit of a shock collar on our boy, Jasper, because he was so people-shy when we got him. There was no way I could have kept up with adjusting the size of the collar, or taking it off to charge it, so we just had to wait him out. He didn't actually kill any outright, he just played with them until they stopped trying to get away, then he methodically plucked them, and they died of shock. Most of them. A few actually survived the roll-and-pluck procedure, but I lost about a dozen chickens to him before he finally grew out of it.</p><p></p><p>I'm SO grateful for the collar in Maggie's case, because she <em>did</em> kill two. But that was it, and now it's been long enough, I'm cautiously hopeful that maybe she's figured out that's not an acceptable pastime.</p><p></p><p>When I was a kid, we had a dog like your ES cross (she was some sort of shepherd), and she killed EVERYTHING. We didn't have chickens, just dogs and cats, but that dog would kill anything she could get her teeth on. Besides robins and rabbits, she killed the little neighbor boys' two Easter chicks, and the County Sheriff's prized white pheasant (he lived down the road from us). My dad had to pay the Sheriff $25.00 for that pheasant, which was a lot of money back then. He also had to buy two more chicks for the neighbor boys... sigh... It was miserable, AND she was a jumper. My dad finally had to chain her inside the back yard, just to keep her on our property. What a nightmare - I can totally sympathize with your situation.</p><p></p><p>But now there <em>are</em> shock collars, and if you use them right, they're VERY good tools for correcting unwanted behavior. They're one of those things you think, "How did we ever get along without them?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lannie, post: 1719921, member: 8202"] We didn't have the benefit of a shock collar on our boy, Jasper, because he was so people-shy when we got him. There was no way I could have kept up with adjusting the size of the collar, or taking it off to charge it, so we just had to wait him out. He didn't actually kill any outright, he just played with them until they stopped trying to get away, then he methodically plucked them, and they died of shock. Most of them. A few actually survived the roll-and-pluck procedure, but I lost about a dozen chickens to him before he finally grew out of it. I'm SO grateful for the collar in Maggie's case, because she [I]did[/I] kill two. But that was it, and now it's been long enough, I'm cautiously hopeful that maybe she's figured out that's not an acceptable pastime. When I was a kid, we had a dog like your ES cross (she was some sort of shepherd), and she killed EVERYTHING. We didn't have chickens, just dogs and cats, but that dog would kill anything she could get her teeth on. Besides robins and rabbits, she killed the little neighbor boys' two Easter chicks, and the County Sheriff's prized white pheasant (he lived down the road from us). My dad had to pay the Sheriff $25.00 for that pheasant, which was a lot of money back then. He also had to buy two more chicks for the neighbor boys... sigh... It was miserable, AND she was a jumper. My dad finally had to chain her inside the back yard, just to keep her on our property. What a nightmare - I can totally sympathize with your situation. But now there [I]are[/I] shock collars, and if you use them right, they're VERY good tools for correcting unwanted behavior. They're one of those things you think, "How did we ever get along without them?" [/QUOTE]
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