[shygirl]

oh dear, at least he ate it rather than killed the whole for fun. I suppose.

we used to give our Labrador the odd dead bird to eat whole, but he never took an interest in the lives ones.
we don't have any hens at moment but im sure my terrier would be a killer.
tricky situation.

[devonlad]

Our terrier seems to have deduced that eating his chickens or chasing his cats is not the done thing and having once many years ago polished off one of my sister in law's hens is totally safe around ours and will lay happily in the garden with the chooks all around him and will even let our little cat shove him out the way to get to his food bowl. HOWEVER, any chicken or cat that his not his still seems to remain open season and he has to be watched very closely if we go anywhere where there are chickens. or other cats. I'm sure in his little world there is a deep,profound and heart felt logic to his world but to be honest we stopped trying to work out precisely how he thinks many moons ago

[Kitchen Cottage]

Luca has had ten years of being starved, beaten, dumped, neglected and let down.  It's not going to happen again, if I am there, he can pootle with me.  If not, it will be a muzzle.  But it will be with love and with the profoundest admiration of the survival skills of this small, old blind stray xx

[doganjo]

Luca has had ten years of being starved, beaten, dumped, neglected and let down.  It's not going to happen again, if I am there, he can pootle with me.  If not, it will be a muzzle.  But it will be with love and with the profoundest admiration of the survival skills of this small, old blind stray xx

Quite right too. There are so many dogs being treated this way and we can't help all of them but we can help the ones we hear of.
The only way to stop it, in the UK at least, is to stop all dog breeding and make it only permitted with a licence

[devonlad]

Luca has had ten years of being starved, beaten, dumped, neglected and let down.  It's not going to happen again, if I am there, he can pootle with me.  If not, it will be a muzzle.  But it will be with love and with the profoundest admiration of the survival skills of this small, old blind stray xx

Quite right too. There are so many dogs being treated this way and we can't help all of them but we can help the ones we hear of.
The only way to stop it, in the UK at least, is to stop all dog breeding and make it only permitted with a licence
Fair play to you kc. He sounds a lucky boy to have found you at last. Our terrier doesn't have the  challenges of luca but he was a rescue dog having been found roaming the streets of reading.  No two days are ever the same with him and he can be hard work but god knows what he's experienced in his early life. Couldn't agree more with doganjo tho fear its an impossible dream.
Fair play to you kc. He sounds a lucky boy to have found you.