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For those of you with both how do you teach your dogs to leave the chooks alone.
I really want my chooks to free range...........but not because a small fluffy dog has chased them through a few paddocks.
Our kelpie's are australian working dogs and they have been bred to chase things - animals, balls, sticks.
We have a large houseyard with ringlock wire and shadecloth stapled to it. The dogs can see thru it, but it let's the other animals come close to the fence without it being apparent all the time. There's an electric wire on the top to stop them wanting to jump over, and neither are diggers. The electric is rarely on it's just that they know that you don't touch white tape. The dogs are always on long leads when we're not home. Because if they get out they could go on other properties, people will shoot any dogs they see on their property.
When we're home it's not an issue. The dogs bark if they see anything run to the fence, put their pawsup and look over. But stay where they are.
The birds and the horses tease them.
It's the little dog who is a problem. It's a very large fence and frankly I'm not digging chicken wire into the ground all around the yard to stop him getting out. Then I'd also have to do something at the three gateways as well. He manages to wriggle out under the fence in several places. I'm planning to make him a secure lead run as well. But it is the times when he slips between your feet as you're coming into the house, that is the real problem.
Is there any good way to stop a dog chasing after he starts. He's quite a stubborn little thing. He may have come from the city, but when he saw a cow the first time, half a paddock away, he went ballistic and barked up a storm. He's got that little dog syndrome where the bigger the other animal the more he wants to be boss of it.
I've promised Frank that I'm going to fix this little dog for him! And I like to be true to my word. Frank's idea of how to fix him might be a little different.
I really want my chooks to free range...........but not because a small fluffy dog has chased them through a few paddocks.
Our kelpie's are australian working dogs and they have been bred to chase things - animals, balls, sticks.
We have a large houseyard with ringlock wire and shadecloth stapled to it. The dogs can see thru it, but it let's the other animals come close to the fence without it being apparent all the time. There's an electric wire on the top to stop them wanting to jump over, and neither are diggers. The electric is rarely on it's just that they know that you don't touch white tape. The dogs are always on long leads when we're not home. Because if they get out they could go on other properties, people will shoot any dogs they see on their property.
When we're home it's not an issue. The dogs bark if they see anything run to the fence, put their pawsup and look over. But stay where they are.
The birds and the horses tease them.
It's the little dog who is a problem. It's a very large fence and frankly I'm not digging chicken wire into the ground all around the yard to stop him getting out. Then I'd also have to do something at the three gateways as well. He manages to wriggle out under the fence in several places. I'm planning to make him a secure lead run as well. But it is the times when he slips between your feet as you're coming into the house, that is the real problem.
Is there any good way to stop a dog chasing after he starts. He's quite a stubborn little thing. He may have come from the city, but when he saw a cow the first time, half a paddock away, he went ballistic and barked up a storm. He's got that little dog syndrome where the bigger the other animal the more he wants to be boss of it.
I've promised Frank that I'm going to fix this little dog for him! And I like to be true to my word. Frank's idea of how to fix him might be a little different.
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