re: #147 William Lewis

Growing up on the farm, we did have a neighbor’s dog get into our chickens and it slaughtered half our flock. And unfortunately, yes, it was put down. But the behaviors of that fully grown dog and this one don’t mesh. Her story doesn’t pass the smell test to me.

Your Karen comment rings true. Unfortunately, that isn’t a bad thing to mass of GOP voters that aren’t on Twitter and the like.

My brother had repeated issues with a neighbor’s dog invading his property and killing his chickens. He was not mad at the dog since it was being a dog. He was mad at the owner not having his dog properly restrained according to the local laws and their BS excuses about half-hearted attempts *after* the issue was taken to a local magistrate more than once.

And farmers putting down dogs that start killing chickens goes way back since as the story goes once they start killing them you will never get them to stop. And if you can’t trust your dog around your free-range chicken flock your farm has issues.

(My brother’s actual fear with large dogs roaming about the area uncontrolled were for his wife and 6 yo daughter. And he had encountered them himself in the woods around the house once or twice.)