So you may or may not know that I am not a dog person.
Despite this fact, we have 3 dogs, not
little ones big ones. Boxers.
Lulu, Duke
& Gus
The plan was never to have 3 dogs, yet life does not always
turn out how you plan, does it?
We got Lulu in December 2008. That was to be the end.
But, about 8 months later someone offered us Duke so we decided to accept him
since he would be a good friend for Lulu. And then it happened we had puppies.
3 litters later Lulu was fixed. Gus sort
of stayed with us by default. He was
meant to go to friends of ours but after a day they brought him back saying he
was too boisterous. Before we could find a new home for him he broke his hip
(we were away for the weekend and a friend was looking after them for us). Since
nobody wants a dog with a bum hip we had no choice but to keep him.
Right, so now you know how we ended up having 3 dogs. And
to top it all I’m the primary care giver of said dogs since everyone else like
having dogs but hates having to take care of them.
Now
for the drama.
Duke may or may not have attacked one of
the neighbour’s sheep on Wednesday night.
The fact is, he came home covered in
blood and we found the sheep but we can’t imagine why he would have just gone
after a sheep out of the blue.
Fact, we had some trouble with him
acting aggressively towards other dogs but this has improved since he had the
snip.
We considered having him put down. Following
a late night call to the vet we decided not to do it since we find it hard to
believe that he attacked the sheep. We
suspect that something else might have attacked the sheep and that he might
have gone after the sheep after the fact.
I had a sleepless night about what the
neighbours might have to say about it if they were to find out that Duke is a
suspect in this crime.
Luckily the sheep survived the attack
and the neighbours told us they suspect that it was a fox. It seems that they
have had several attaches on the sheep recently and I am 100% sure that Duke
was not involved in any of those.
Can you see why I prefer cats over dogs?
I’ve never had a cat that caused me as much stress and frustration as these
dogs.
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| Tiger and Duke aka the usual suspect |
how scary to think your dog may have attacked the neighbors sheep. hope it wasn't and that they catch the fox
ReplyDeleteoh boy! Duke is too cute to be causing trouble like that.
ReplyDeleteYikes!! I bet that was scary thinking your dog could have done that! I'm glad they think it was something else and that the sheep will be okay. :o( Foxes are awful little creatures. They attack chickens too which puts them up pretty high on my offender list!
ReplyDeleteOh, Lord! I'm not a dog person, either. We've had our dog for years, and I still get nervous when the kids play with her. It only takes one snap!
ReplyDeleteThanks foor this blog post
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