Posted on 12/31/2008 2:37:33 PM PST by budhead123
Help I have a Border Collie / mix Dog He is 1 1/2 yrs old, he is a very smart dog, The other night I had to go looking for him and found him on a deer.... still alive! He has a sisiter that is 6 months old and is a Black Lab /mix. she to was with him shortly getting in on the action. I pulled him off. and scolded him allthe way home, this moring I let them out and went in to bake a cake, 30 min. i called them to come in and no one came. I put on my jacket and when out to look for them. Just as I started up the 4 wheeler they both came running around the shop and both are cover in blood. I called to the boder collie and asked him to show me what he caught and he took me to the dead deer. Is this something I shuld be worried about? How do I stop this from ever happening again, some one help! There must be a way I do not want to have to put him down. thank you
Unfortunately some dogs are the opposite and learn too well. My dad has a French Brittney that we put through rattlesnake training (like all his other Brits).
Dog learned too well and now won’t go near extension cords, the garden hose, strings, anything that even remotely resembles a snake .
Dr McCoy from Star Trek.
Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a miracle worker”.
Are you writing all this stuff down, Budhead? This is good info we are passing on to you.
I remember the day an annoying little Jack Russel came around to kill babies rabbits in the yard about an acre away and saw Molly on the front porch. Molly usually would start barking at Jack to let him know that he was getting too close. One day she got tired of the game and started barreling like a freight train after Jack and caught him before he ever got another half an acre away. Jack stayed away after that. Best darn dog I ever had by the way.
Durn tootin’
I talk to mine as a person and she’ll tip her head one way then the other like she knows exactly what I’m saying. I speak to her in sentences .... she’ll sit up wanting something and I tell her to show me and she’ll run to what it is she wants.
Dad says it ain’t no real dog unless it can fetch beer from the fridge ... I told him to go get a Retriever ... they’re dumb enough to just do it ... LOL ....
Ahhh...a Star Trek reference. Very good.
Did I make it in time???
Man she was a good dog.....Loved that dog.
Own two Border Collies now.....great dogs!!
I'd like to have a Tervuren though..........
I don't think he's going to be around long enough.
He needn't worry about dogs and deer. He'd best be on the watch for kitties...the Nordic type.
If you leave a dog free to raom at night, they will hook up with the neighbors dogs and wild dogs to form a pack and go on a killing spree. Come morning, they will be back at their respective homes looking as innocent as can be.
Border collies (and mixes) will often "herd" dear. But there's something not right if he's killing them and eating them.
Good call! Half beagle and half fox terrier. Good jump dogs and don't run ten miles like beagles.
...but you didn't have their dew claws removed by any chance did you?
You are 2 for 2! We did, plus bobbed thier tails. Here they are before the operation:
I suggest you view your state's laws regarding dogs and deer.............
FWIW, a bunch of years ago a friend of mine I worked with in Detroit was transferred to one of our plants in Kentucky. He bought a house out in the country and 2 Alaskan Huskys. One day the dogs were running loose and came upon one of a neighbor's head of cattle and killed it. That became a major problem for him both financially and because he had to put the dogs down.........
Just pray that the dog doesn't transfer it behavior over to your neighbors calves, sheep, goats or fowl. The neighbors will then solve the problem with extreme prejudice with justification and may even present you with a bill plus be pretty perturbed at you for some time.
To kill deer I mean. If not, try to blame it on the cat if the Game Warden come's a knockin'.
Thailand?
IBTZ
Thanks for the cute puppy pics. I saw only two dogs in your original pic. Did you give the third one away or is he/she just not into the whole deer skinning thing?
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