• capital@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    When I was barely a teenager our neighbor’s dog came into our property and killed/ate all of our chickens.

    We later learned that they ended up shooting the dog. The “common sense” regarding this was that once dogs get a taste for chicken they will never stop coming back to get more.

    I don’t know if that’s true and in our situation it wasn’t a puppy but this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of a dog being killed for eating chickens.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know if that’s true

      I’m like 90% sure it’s not, it’s just one of those things that people do as a kind of “common sense” solution, because dogs are generally seen as a pretty disposable object. Like how they used to kill, and maybe still do kill idk, any animal that kills or attacks a person, just kind of on the basis that “that there animal is a man killer. ain’t no goin’ back from that, it’s got a taste for it now.”. Just dumb shit.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      Couldn’t they just have, I don’t know, kept the dog on a fucking leash like the rest of civilized society?