Captured a Vicious Predator in Our Perimeter Fence Today (Pics)

[speckledhen]

I'm sorry, but that sort of made me laugh, not making fun of you at all, mind you, just knowing these locals. Folks around here don't microchip their dogs, in my experience.

Animal Control has the puppy and if they have the equipment to read a microchip, they can look for one. Even if I found one, I'd still have turned the dog over to them. I guess I could ask my one neighbor who sometimes knows who has what if anyone got a new dog and if she knows about this one, she can pass the word on to them that AC picked it up today so they can go get her.

We had to sign something saying the dog was not ours, for goodness sake! Folks must dump their dogs on AC all the time here, if they don't dump them on the side of the road.

 

[DelDels]

She would look beautiful on a hand quilted doggie cushion. Sorry I just couldn't help it. I'm such a sucker for pretty puppy eyes. LOL
Really though you did the right thing. She will be easy to get adopted somewhere that there are no chickens to terrorize.

 

[theoldchick]

Good lookin' pup. I've sent a few just like her to AC, too. Just not into puppies at this time in my life. I used to tell people if you can't afford a tag, microchip, or what not, get a sharpie pen and write your phone number on the collar.

 

[speckledhen]

Quote: I know, right? It's not brain surgery! We either did that or we used one of those machines at PetSmart, when we lived in civilization, that makes the aluminum tag with the dog's name and our phone number on it, in addition to the annual rabies tag they give you when the dog gets its shot. No dog of ours was ever without an ID of some type, even though we always, always put up a fence at every house we lived in if there wasn't already one there.

If an owner doesn't claim her, she's very adoptable at her age and with her good looks.

 

[Roxannemc]

She looks mix beagle & blue tick to me. More beagle i would say .and yes they can get thru a 4 inch fence hole.ABSOLUTELY!
My husband had hunting beagles and not tiny ones either, i SAW with my own eyes one of his squeeze thru our 4" field fence when i brought her in the yard to run around like a 'yard dog' thinking there was no way she could get thru that..., too small and DH was wrong about that. NOPE I WAS!!!
..... Why they hunt rabbits.They will go any place a rabbit can go, no problem.

 

[speckledhen]

I am rather leaning toward her squeezing through one of the 4" openings rather than being dumped into our fence--that isn't to say someone couldn't have dumped her outside the fence somewhere, then she pushed herself through. We never heard a vehicle engine and we are fairly private and almost always hear cars and trucks drive down the power line easement road beside our house.

She had to come from the back side of the property rather than the front side since the roosters had not seen her yet-if she was dropped at the driveway side, she would have come past the coops and all heck would have broken out.

 

[Cetawin]

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Speaking of roosters...Lancelot has done it again Cyn...he has amazed me. The couple came with their young daughter (7 year old) to buy the white rocks (one of which had taken off, we could not find her before they left)....anyway, the little girl was totally in love with Lancelot and Zena. She asked if she could hold Zena and I let her...clucking screeching and sounding like a looney tune but she was sucking up the attention. Then the little girl spotted Lancelot and wanted to pet him. Cheyenne explained that Lancelot only really allows me to pick him up and handle him....I explained what he has been through with predators and so forth and that Lancelot was not in any way accustomed to young children and while he was a sweet kind rooster, I would prefer her not try to touch him....just in case. She was upset of course so I explained how her reaching for him or pursuing him could be viewed as a threat by him and I pointed out his spurs to her and so forth and she started to understand but she wanted to touch him so badly that I gave in...

I got the scratch jar and knelt down and called Lancelot to me and I had her kneeling beside me....Lancelot approached slowly, checking her out and I asked her to make all of her movements real slow....she held out the scratch jar for him to get some out of it and she waited and waited...Lancelot kept looking at her and then me and back and forth and I kept telling him it was okay...finally he came up and got some scratch from her and decided she was okay a little. She put some in her hand and he took it from her very carefully and stood there like a big blue statue and let her rub the side of his neck and touch his wattles. He was very gentlemanly and careful when taking food from her hand and he stood absolutely still when she touched him. He allowed a few pets and touches and then he backed up a couple of feet, looked at me and turned to go into the coop.

I was so proud of him Cyn....I really was nervous not knowing how he would react to a young child but I was close enough to be able to shove her out of the way and grab Lancelot is he had gotten feisty in the least. But nope he was a good boy, as always.

Okay..Yes I adore my rooster as much as I love yours.

 

[speckledhen]

Aw, that's our Lance! What a great boy! I'm so proud of him, as I've always been. That rooster is one in a million. You and I have been blessed with great roosters, but then, we are very choosy about the ones we keep as well. You have to be.

I know that if that puppy had come from the driveway side, that Isaac, Suede, Gideon, Aubrey and even little Ace would have gone nuts. They started getting nervous when they saw her on the driveway on her leash and making some alarm sounds, even though she was with DH and nowhere near them.

 

[Wynette]

ETA: AC couldn't follow directions and went down the long driveway to the down-the-hill neighbor, a neighbor whose dog has precipitated one of maybe three threads I've ever started on P&P. They went to the door and I guess were told that was not the person who called. May have been a good thing they went to the wrong house, and that house in particular--now, that neighbor knows for sure we will call AC.

Interesting how things work out, eh? Cyn, I'm so glad that she showed up on YOUR property and not mine. I'm sure DH would not have been able to turn her in to AC if she'd shown up here! HA!

 

[speckledhen]

Of course, it was tempting, since poor old Kes won't be with us much longer, but we have to be strong since we really cannot afford another dog. We sure love the hounds, though.