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In reply to the discussion: Dog owners please enter . Am I wrong about what happened today?? [View all]gwheezie
(3,580 posts)My beef is with hunting dog owners, not all of them and not all hunters but dammit come collect your dogs and feed them and take them to the vet.
At the end of hunting season here it's so disgusting hound dog bodies are strewn about the road and those that survive die slower more horrible deaths.
We have an animal control round up for an entire week at the end of the season, all dogs on leashes or confined for a week while animal control rounds up the strays. They can wind up putting over 100 dogs down, no collar, no chip.
I dread it, my livestock driven crazy. My own dogs driven crazy. The chickens only protection was my killer goat.
And please don't drive out here from where ever you live to let your dogs be dogs.
Now I'm not an idiot. I love watching a well cared for pack hunt or working dogs do their thing. I used to fox hunt, I love the hounds. I've owned Australian shepherds who dedicated their lives to their goats. There is joy in being a dog. I have one old boy left and his eyes are cloudy and legs not so sturdy but he grieved when the last goat died.
Rant over, sorry to hijack thread.