Re: I'm back with twenty hens

From: Mary Fisher (mary.fisher_at_zetnet.co.uk)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:21:28 +0100

"Christina Websell" <spamfree@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> I agree that it can be trained out of some dogs by some owners. My lot
>> are
>> good around my birds. The giant schnauzer wasn't when she was young and
>> no
>> amount of beatings, or any other punishments stopped her. It took an
>> animal
>> psychologist and an electric training collar to stop the behaviour after
>> a
>> year of my tearing my hair out and her digging into or jumping into the
>> poultry yard and mauling birds.
>> She is now 10 years old and I trust her implicitly with my poultry and
>> would
>> happily leave her in the poultry yard overnight. The terrier cannot be
>> trusted however. He just cannot help himself.
>> My collie X GSD has never shown the slightest interest in poultry.
>> What I was trying to get across in the post was that if the OP's dog has
>> done it once, she will have to be on the alert as it often takes more
>> than
>> one 'ton of bricks' to get the message across. Depending on the
>> individual
>> dog's temperament of course.
>> Crikey it's almost like legal speak where one has to add clauses and sub
>> clauses to cover all eventualities instead of a post being taken
>> literally
>> and nothing more read into it :0)
>>
>>
> Molly, often your posts sound really unfriendly. I know that you are
> giving good advice, but if you could do it without sounding that we were
> all bad chicken mothers and you were cross with us, it'd be nice and
> helpful.

The above also shows that beatings don't work.

Mary
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> Tina
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