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<blockquote data-quote="Lannie" data-source="post: 1715820" data-attributes="member: 8202"><p>Thanks, Jasper is doing way better than I expected he would. And now that Maggie is a teenager, he's being <em>extremely</em> patient with her. I think he loves her as much as I do.</p><p></p><p>The chicken-playing unfortunately continues. Last night, just at sundown (when they're all trying to go to bed) she grabbed another one. He was too big for her to carry, so she was "leading" him down the driveway away from the garage. I yelled a sharp, "HEY!" and she let go, and the rooster beat a hasty retreat back to the garage. Maggie was standing there with a couple of his feathers sticking out of her mouth, and it was hard to be mad at her because she looked so funny with those feathers. Like the proverbial cat that just ate the canary. LOL! I still pretended to be mad, though.</p><p></p><p>I've decided that by yelling at her (or "biting" her, or rolling her on her side) is only teaching her to be careful not to play with a chicken when Mom's around, so I've ordered a shock collar. We'll start with the beep, then the vibrate, and then if those don't work, that chicken will zap her when she puts her teeth on it. Of course, I'll have to be watching from cover so I can time it right, but this way, she won't know it's ME that's doing it. It will be the chicken.</p><p></p><p>I used one of these collars on my older house dog, years ago, when she used to chase the chickens that got in the back yard where she was, and she was <em>killing</em> the ones she caught. She has a MUCH higher prey drive than Maggie, and when she was "hunting," the tone and vibrate didn't make much of an impression, but a low-voltage zap did the trick. I think I had to press that zap button two or three different times and that was the end of her chicken chasing. They weren't fun to chase and kill anymore. Unfortunately those built-in batteries don't last long, and that collar is dead, so I have to order a new one. I'm pretty sure it should work at least as well as it did on the house dog, considering Maggie is only playing, not trying to actually kill the birds. Fingers crossed! I know she'll eventually grow out of this, but I'd rather it be sooner than later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lannie, post: 1715820, member: 8202"] Thanks, Jasper is doing way better than I expected he would. And now that Maggie is a teenager, he's being [I]extremely[/I] patient with her. I think he loves her as much as I do. The chicken-playing unfortunately continues. Last night, just at sundown (when they're all trying to go to bed) she grabbed another one. He was too big for her to carry, so she was "leading" him down the driveway away from the garage. I yelled a sharp, "HEY!" and she let go, and the rooster beat a hasty retreat back to the garage. Maggie was standing there with a couple of his feathers sticking out of her mouth, and it was hard to be mad at her because she looked so funny with those feathers. Like the proverbial cat that just ate the canary. LOL! I still pretended to be mad, though. I've decided that by yelling at her (or "biting" her, or rolling her on her side) is only teaching her to be careful not to play with a chicken when Mom's around, so I've ordered a shock collar. We'll start with the beep, then the vibrate, and then if those don't work, that chicken will zap her when she puts her teeth on it. Of course, I'll have to be watching from cover so I can time it right, but this way, she won't know it's ME that's doing it. It will be the chicken. I used one of these collars on my older house dog, years ago, when she used to chase the chickens that got in the back yard where she was, and she was [I]killing[/I] the ones she caught. She has a MUCH higher prey drive than Maggie, and when she was "hunting," the tone and vibrate didn't make much of an impression, but a low-voltage zap did the trick. I think I had to press that zap button two or three different times and that was the end of her chicken chasing. They weren't fun to chase and kill anymore. Unfortunately those built-in batteries don't last long, and that collar is dead, so I have to order a new one. I'm pretty sure it should work at least as well as it did on the house dog, considering Maggie is only playing, not trying to actually kill the birds. Fingers crossed! I know she'll eventually grow out of this, but I'd rather it be sooner than later. [/QUOTE]
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