Posted on 12/31/2008 2:37:33 PM PST by budhead123
Help I have a Border Collie / mix Dog He is 1 1/2 yrs old, he is a very smart dog, The other night I had to go looking for him and found him on a deer.... still alive! He has a sisiter that is 6 months old and is a Black Lab /mix. she to was with him shortly getting in on the action. I pulled him off. and scolded him allthe way home, this moring I let them out and went in to bake a cake, 30 min. i called them to come in and no one came. I put on my jacket and when out to look for them. Just as I started up the 4 wheeler they both came running around the shop and both are cover in blood. I called to the boder collie and asked him to show me what he caught and he took me to the dead deer. Is this something I shuld be worried about? How do I stop this from ever happening again, some one help! There must be a way I do not want to have to put him down. thank you
This ain't Dogs R' Us.
But, seriously, how the hell does a year and half old Border Collie have a sister that's 6 months old?
And a black lab mix at that.
Izzat you, Hussein?
Are you tryin' to start some crap?
Teach your dog how to grill, and you are set.
I doubt the whole story. A first post vanity and no followup posts don’t help, either.
Last year my Belgian Tervuren disappeared for a week. Turns out he chartered a full African safari...We now jokingly refer to him around the house as “Dog-tari”.
A border collie taking a deer? Extremely unlikely.
PETA TROLL!
I believe every word of it!
Change the food.
We had some mixed breed dogs and they killed the nieghbor’s goats. Come to find out, they weren’t eating (we had been noticing alot of food going to waste) their dog food from the stupid Chinese melamine (sp) and they were starved.
But border collies aren’t hunting dogs by nature. Why else would they use them to round up sheep without fear of them attacking the sheep?
Might as well have him trained to drag it home, cut and wrap it and stick it in the freezer as well!
My Lab does...but she just corners them and barks at them until I tell her to lay off...she's a liberal.
I once had a staghound. It was fast enough to keep up with deer (and to chase cars at about 50 mph on highways) but not quite able to catch them. That’s quite a remarkable dog that you have there.
Hmmm. Maybe I should get a chihuahua that can take elk down. ;-)
“oh deer!”
‘No deer, a$$ too high, run too fast.’
I call Troll. Signs up today, and this is the only post. Abuse being hit.
Maybe putting some bells on his collar would help warn the deer. Otherwise you'll have to keep him penned up.
I suspect the deer around this poster's home are underfed and small which is why a border collie was able to take one down ~ as we move into winter it's only going to get worse, and there will be a major die-off from starvation as these deer overgraze their limited mast.
Better they die quickly at the hands of canines than by starvation.
That's nature's way.
I wish I could hire your dog. Deer eat the buds on my apple trees, and my peach trees. Plenty of other food around.
These things are just giant vermine.
If there were not cute, there would be a bounty on them.
There is NO way a Border Collie could take down a HEALTHY deer. I’m sure you won’t be stumbling across any more dead deer carcasses any time soon unless they have been ailing to begin with.
He's a Border Collie not a Golden Retriever for crying out loud.
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