In case you had any sympathy left for the "farmer" who shot 2 dogs in PA

[TexasProgresive]

60. We raise dairy goats

We take extreme precautions so we have not lost any kids or does to attacks but friends have. The attacks have been almost exclusively by neighbor dogs. One did have a bob cat jump and maul some goats.

Friends of ours that live in the hill country west of Austin on 300+ acres had to Golden retrievers attack their sheep. Mr. was out and saw one dog chewing on a ewe that had been hamstrung the other dog was in the process of doing the same running down another ewe. There were 4 others down.

Without hesitation he shot both dogs- got his tractor and buried the sheep and the dogs. An hour after they were in the ground the owner of the dogs called saying her dogs just got out 10 minutes ago. He just said he would look out for them.

BTW he knew who the dogs belonged to but as they were caught in the act he eliminated the problem.

It is a real problem in rural areas that get rural subdivisions. People tend to not control their dogs as there are no leash laws in Texas outside the city limits. And dogs will come together and reminisce of when they were wolves.

Another story from my wife's aunt. She always had dogs. She made a report to animal control because one of her little dogs was killed by a pack that roaming the neighborhood. He told her that if he could id and take out the leader of the pack it would probably fall apart. Sure enough he did just that - The leader of the pack was another of Auntie's dogs.

When you are with your dogs you are the alpha dog of the pack- when you are not around there is a whole 'nother dynamic happening.

I ask you to fence your dogs and put them on a leash when taking them out of your yard - please.

And if your dog gets in my goats' pasture- I won't be shooting it but it will be dead because my Great Pyrenees livestock guards will have done the killing. They brook no strange dogs in their herd.