EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

So we're at my in laws house, horse, goat and cow sitting while they're out of town and I chain all the dogs except my 10month old pup, their heeler, and their crippled old chow. Then we head out to church and our other Sunday ministry stuff and my bro in law calls about 6 pm and tells me that my pup killed two goats. Uugggghhhh.!! I don't even have words for how sick it makes me!

Then I ask did you see it and he says no but my pup is the only dog loose other than his, and that's when it hit me, the new neighbors hhave a big German shepherd who got caught attacking those two goats on Friday.  So I take a walk and their shepherd is chilling in the front yard NO CHAIN.

All I know is my pup has been around those goats since he was four weeks old and has been thoroughly taught not to Jack with them.  After looking over both goats, it looks like more than one dog and I'm taking the fall but it just makes me sick.

I don't know who did it.  I don't want to have to cull him. What do y'all think?

My pups keep takeing my goat heard out one at a time well maybe to at a time! My pups were raised around the goats also but as soon as I left for Floirda they started killing them! So they have a chain life now!

Yeah, I definitely ain't gonna say it wasn't Wyatt, I've seen what he can do to a pig, so a goat ain't no challenge.  If they were my goats I wouldn't be quite as upset. I guess its all chains all the time from now on.

I have one goat that has been caught so mant times that I thinks she thinks it is part of life to get caught by a dog!

I would be buying three goats just as a gesture. Maybe four.

Yeah dub I'm already on it  :-\

I got some forsale that are dog broke!

  ;D y'all take me from ready to "ole yeller" a dog to laughing in no time flat, that is why I love this dang forum!

What kinda goats you got, and what you want fer em?

They are Boer Goats! I would have to ask me wife the price! I am about $3000 in the hole in the goats from the dogs so I'm not sure it much matters anymore!

Hey cward that is why u stick to cows lol ur a cowman not a goatman lol

Well this  is not exactly the same but I left a 3yr old male and a 2yr old female i just had spayed loose in the fenced part of our yard sat. morn and left for the day. These dog have grown up will our barn cats I have seen them sleeping together but my son call about mid afternoon said he got bit fighting with the two dog trying to get them off one of the cats.. put both dogs in kennels and the one is still raising hell this morning trying to get to the other cats just like the cat hate switch got flipped on....

Well nobody knows for certain who it was, I think my main point of anger yesterday was that there was a known animal chasing heeler, an old and mean chow, and a fresh from the suburbs German shepherd all running loose and my hog dog pup is the instant scape goat when hell, it coulda been any of them

Did you check your pup for any blood around his mouth or neck or on his front feet ? Or goat hair in his mouth? I would do some investigating before I let them just blame it on my dog..
But of course goats look a lot like deer so my dog would probably be gulty..  :)

Ya know I did check him and found no hair or blood on him as soon as I got there. But my gyp whose chain reached to the goat pen did have a few hairs stuck in her swivel. But her chain only reached a couple feet past the fence where she dug thru. Unless the goats stood still and waited their turn to be killed, I think that shepherd jumped the fence a d in alleluia the commotion got my gyp all stirred up.

But the damage has been done now and the in laws said they ain't mad at me. And that they don't want any goats.  I got some good inlaws.

Well that's one way to get out of goat sitting anymore !!  lol jk!

   Years ago my grandfather was a government trapper. We got called to a ranch loosing sheep. By the way they were killed it was dogs. There wasn't any running loose for miles. So the traps and snares went out. Ended up catching a set of really good border collies, trained sheep dogs and good ones. Theses dogs ran loose, wouldn't bother the owners sheep at all. They chose to travel about 5 miles, through several ranches with sheep and goats. Guess the dogs felt they were far enough no one would know, they were some sheep killing dudes too. 

I have a gyp out of the same cat blood line as the rest of my dogs; she is super shy and scared of everything. I found out she was raised in a small pin and never let out until she was a year old. I picked her up because I wanted to give her a chance to come out of her shell. I chained her by the front door and gave her special attention. After about two weeks I turned her loose thinking she would not bother any thing. About two weeks later my wife called me and told me the neighbor called balling like a baby and mad. Seems that Dutches and the dogs that belong to the neighbor down the road killed her cat, and this was a special cat, and belongs to her granddaughter. After talking to her and thinking everything was ok, SHE CALLED THE COPS. So much for understanding neighbors!!!

Them dogs were trained to do that knock the competion out then the market was good for the man who had them!

Thanks for the stories y'all! Theyre coming home tonight. I feel like a little kid waiting for dad to come home and whoop my butt  ;D. Oh well, at least i gave them a cute granddaughter, they can't stay mad for too long :angel:

They were "all" probably in on it! Loose dogs will pack up and get in to all kind of trouble. When I was in high school, I sat in a tree stand and witnessed my uncle's Dobbi, our neighbors well manicured poodle ( hair-bow and all) and a black chow that I had never seen before ran a young buck right past my tree stand!
I warned them but I dont think the poodles owner believed me when I told her what her sweet little baby was doing with the other dogs.
 
Thats the problem with dogs that run loose. They are left to act like dogs.  :D
 
T-Bob, I doubt your pup started it but dogs get pups in trouble all the time. Glad there was no hard feelings with your family.