The brave part, evidently, is not in staring down (the picutre of) Kim Jong Un and being the only person to shoot a dog and a billy goat the way she did, but in bragging about it.
I kinda want to see a scene of the crime aerial showing said gravel pit, and the location of the witnessing construction workers.
Hey, where’s Cricket?
Is it weird to anyone else that Cricket would kill several chickens when she got the chance?
All my dogs, at most, would maybe chase a chicken. I doubt they’d even have chased them. Probably just gone up to check out these things and maybe try to play with them. Certainly it would never have crossed their minds to kill the chickens (or whatever…mouse, squirrel, other dog, etc.). Not even kill by accident by “playing.” It seems weirdly vicious for a pet dog that is still very young.
While I have had several dogs in my life and met many more I get that I do not know all dogs. This just seems unusual to me for a dog that has been raised as a pet.
This definitely depends on the dog. I’ve had mine since he was a small puppy. Absolute sweetheart around dogs and people, but becomes a werewolf when I take him out at night and he smells a cat or other small mammal. Growling, raised hackles, etc. He also loves to chase birds at the park; it seems playful but I bet he’d do some serious damage unintentionally. Thankfully he has the the subtlety of a rhinoceros so I doubt I’ll ever have an opportunity to find out.
Oh, dogs will kill chickens.
They smell wonderful to them. They cackle and flap and run. Fun stuff for dogs.
Any dog with a strong prey drive will, at least, chase. If they ever catch one. Well, the die is set, so to speak.
It doesn’t have to be, tho’.
It can be be trained out.
If you’re not able to train the dog, you can, in your responsibility as a dog owner keep them away from, leashed and busy with their own job, so that they don’t have the problem.
They don’t have to die for their natural drives.
I admit one of my dogs once went after a rabbit and another went after a flock of Canada Goose. Neither caught them but both came very close. I am not sure what they would have done had they caught what they were after though. It was the chase.
The rabbit escaped by running into a hedge and my dog was far too big to get in there (she actually crashed into it and kinda got stuck a little before wriggling back out). I remember being shocked at how nimble my big dog (German Shepherd) was on the heels of a rabbit that was running and dodging for all it was worth. My dog was able to stay on it.
The Canada Goose flock was in a big field and, like @P91noX mentioned, my dog had all the subtlety of a charging rhinoceros so the birds saw her coming a mile away. But, they are big birds and slow to get airborne and my dog was deceptively fast (she was a big dog and looked slow(ish) but had a long stride so covered a lot of ground with each “step”). I was surprised my dog could jump that high but she tried and only just missed a dangling foot of one of the birds that was maybe five or six feet off the ground.
But, I still believe either would have been at a loss of what to do if they had succeeded in catching their quarry.
Grab a shovel and clean it up. When my dog caught a rabbit, it was…disconcerting. That cry/scream is disturbing. When she nailed a nesting mallard at full speed, it was only disgusting. Luckily, a nearby bird rescue was able to come take the unhatched eggs.
But I definitely didn’t take her to a gravel pit and kill her. Just put in a little work to train her not to commit small animal murder. Now she generally ignores everything, unless a rabbit runs out RIGHT in front of her. She’ll take a step or two, but not even reach the end of her leash before she stops. Crazy what can happen when you actually take responsibility for yourself and those in your care.
In my late-teens (?) the neighbour across the street raised rabbits to eat. I helped her once. She would knock the rabbit unconscious with a ball peen hammer before slitting its throat. Only the time I helped her (by holding the rabbits by their hind legs), she couldn’t find her hammer and she decided to use vice grips (as a bludgeon). She didn’t hit the first one hard enough, and it screamed like a baby. Pretty haunting. (But I did eat the rabbit she gave me, and I have no trouble eating rabbits.)
When I was dating my (now) ex-wife we were in Arizona and she came running in saying she heard a woman scream (maybe child…I forget…it was a long time ago now). Having heard it before I told her not to worry, it was probably a coyote killing a rabbit.
She didn’t seem to find that answer reassuring. It is a spooky scream from an animal we otherwise consider silent.
Right now, there’s a political consultant shouting at her, “you need to STOP TALKING about this.” And given her history with her political consultants, the conversation’s probably taking place at a Motel Six.
Our border collie cross used to chase birds that landed in the yard, and I used to laugh at him - until the day I saw him leap up and snatch one out of the air. He never chased a cat (I suspect he was a little scared of them after our Siamese taught him manners), he showed no aggression at all to people, especially children, and he was even very gentle and cautious around the hamster (not that we left them unsupervised), but I would never have let him near anyone’s chickens off-leash.
Stopping would involve backing down or admitting to a mistake, both of which are utterly foreign concepts to the maga death cult. By the end of the month she’ll have doubled down to the point where the puppy was holding Peppa Pig, Baby Yoda, and the Second Coming of Our Lord and Savior Ronald H. Reagan hostage with a bomb strapped to its chest and she only had ONE BULLET LEFT thanks to the gun-grabbing liberals, and after she took the shot from 900 yards away the ghost of American Sniper appeared before her, tears in his eyes, and said “Only you or President Trump himself could have made that shot, sir”.
Saint Ronnie was a RINO at the least, and probably s Socialist.
No, not at all.
You’re right that a lot of dogs would just chase chickens or try to play with them, but I know a couple people who had a chicken, or several, killed by a dog that got loose among them.
Dogs vary, just like people.
Also, Noem was supposedly trying to train this dog to hunt and who knows what sort of training that was, or what the dog learned from it? Apparently the notion was to turn Cricket into a bird hunting dog, so maybe enough of the training took that she thought killing the birds was the thing to do.
Hard to know at this remove.
I honestly thought you were going for “gravel pit.”
Friend, you’re behind the times. The magaflatearthers believe 'tis the Mango Menace who is their Lord and Savior now.
Yeah, but the Second Coming of Trump can’t happen until he dies, and he will never ever die, so that’s not going to happen any time soon.
You may think of Lord Ronnie as a John the Baptist of sorts.
Its definitely a trait that exists in some dogs. All the dogs I have had have behaved as you described, lots of chasing and barking, but not the slightest bit of killing instinct. But I have known a couple of dogs that have had the hunting behavior described in that book, and would absolutely kill chickens rather than just run around and bark at them. It’s presumably not a very useful behavior to have for most of the roles we have bred dogs for over the years. It’s pretty disturbing when it happens but it’s something you deal with training (and making sure you don’t let your dog off leash around small animals it can kill, duh)