05-18-2013, 05:00 AM
My dogs brought me a rat as big almost as big as them within an hour of bringing them home the first day.
They are poi dogs with some sort of ratter ancestry that makes their prey instinct fierce. Anything chicken sized or smaller, including chickens, would have a life expectancy of less than five minutes on our place. Even geese or turkeys could be asking for trouble. A rat, mongoose, chicken, or any other prey species sets 1 paw on our place and they go into team hunting mode, day or night. Because they are twin sisters, they are able to hunt like one dog with two bodies and are very effective killers. I will not bring home anything for them to just kill it.
Someone has offered me some grown sheep, which I am seriously considering, lambs would be asking for trouble I think.
Carol
They are poi dogs with some sort of ratter ancestry that makes their prey instinct fierce. Anything chicken sized or smaller, including chickens, would have a life expectancy of less than five minutes on our place. Even geese or turkeys could be asking for trouble. A rat, mongoose, chicken, or any other prey species sets 1 paw on our place and they go into team hunting mode, day or night. Because they are twin sisters, they are able to hunt like one dog with two bodies and are very effective killers. I will not bring home anything for them to just kill it.
Someone has offered me some grown sheep, which I am seriously considering, lambs would be asking for trouble I think.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb