Thread: Lab sort of problems

Well there ya go @Happy you should just shoot the dog.
Funny that in all of the dogs I have met in my life the only one to ever bite me or anyone else I know was the most expensive "sheep dog"

wow that turned to crap in a hurry......
for what its worth Ive had working sheep dogs that killed chooks and were "reformed"
another heading dog was also used on pigs and cattle....we were working sheep on the neighbours place and his dogs would nip constantly when the boss wasnt looking,my PUP took that as licence and got runaway sheep in as good of ear hold with body tucked in as you have ever seen,,tail wagging because he thought he was doing the right thing...no he wasnt shot but very sternly taught that wasnt the right thing to do,neighbour stuck shock collar on his nipping dog and caught it at right moment and fixed it too.
never had worry of any of my dogs killing sheep.....and they would hold pigs and heal cattle mercelessly....fine around little people too.
but this is waaaay off where OP is with his lab not even in same farm let alone paddock.

Sheep seem to be the problem.

Originally Posted by Pengy

Sheep seem to be the problem.

you leave the Aussies girlfriends alone.......

I also think we were talking about the 1980's and earlier. I started life in southland and a dog was very much a tool. A shepherd did not have time and values were different. I would not shoot a dog but then as a teenager in the mid 1980's I three times caught the same dog attracting our goats/sheep, we lived inside the city limits so dog control collected it from me only to return it. Cost us 3-4 animals.
I probably would have shot it if we were outside town on the third time. Not the dogs fault but!!
Times and attitudes change.
My Dad can kill stock with a knife, i could not. One hunting buddy would use a knife to finish a wounded animal off my other mate and i would use an extra bullet in the head.
Zq