• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You don’t automatically Old Yeller your dog for killing a neighbor’s livestock; you either change how you are raising the dog (e.g. no more unsupervised outside time) or you acknowledge that the dog is a poor fit for your lifestyle and surrender it to a shelter.

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      2 months ago

      I lost two chickens to one of my dogs. Now she can be around them without any problems for two years now. Know what I did? I trained my fucking dog. She’ll steal an egg though!