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Monty
I think I'm a- king among dogs |
 | | Barked: Mon Nov 2, '09 8:00pm PST | |  | |  | | Has anyone ever considered feeding their dog live prey so that the mighty hunter on a species-appropriate diet could utilize his species-appropriate instincts and actually hunt? I couldn't because I have a pet rabbit and I'd rather the dogs didn't learn how to hunt, but I also go back and forth on the ethics of it.
Doesn't it seem like the dogs would just be pleased as pie to catch dinner? In batting the idea around, it seems like it would fantastic mental stimulation and exercise.
I know it's inhumane to feed a live animal to something, it's obviously more stressful for the prey than being slaughtered, but what about the benefits to the predator?
I'm trying to think about it without empathizing with the prey item, just strictly from my dog's POV. I think it'd make for a happy dog. Even if the prey fought back. Monty's favorite toys are the ones that whack him in the head when he shakes them! |  |  | |  |
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Darby - C.G.C.
The Anti-Lassie |
 | | Barked: Mon Nov 2, '09 9:19pm PST | | | | | | I can't really see the benefit of teaching a domestic dog to hunt, unless he is in an actual hunting pack that would be kenneled when not in the field.
Teaching a dog to kill means you have... well, a dog that kills. It may be a rabbit, but it could also be the neighbor's cat, or a smaller dog, or the farmer's chickens. Believe me, I have had a high prey drive dog - she actually regarded smaller dogs as prey and would stalk them. It was nothing short of an ordeal to train her to respond to my command and stop an attack. She never lost her prey drive, and I could never trust her fully around other animals. I loved that dog, but I would never have another like her. | | | | |
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Holly
I'm sweeter than- sugar! |
| | Barked: Mon Nov 2, '09 9:58pm PST | | | | | | idk I understand your POV on the subject. But I don't think it's worth it. WHat I've been doing for my cats (Holly could careless) is taking a toy mouse and rolling it in mouse bedding. Then I tie it to a string and run it around the house. They love it, it squeaks and everything. BeBe (cat) acts the same way with it as he does with wild rodents he catches. So I think that might be a better route to take. | | | | |
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Lilith
Aro-ro-ro!
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| | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 5:00am PST | | | | | | I don't think in general it's appropriate. That's like feeding snakes live prey - the prey is usually trapped for the snake and released in its pen. That leaves neither the prey nor the snake to escape should something happen. Like Scooter said.. you may get injured. Even things like bunnies or rats can cause eye injuries or otherwise. | | | | |
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Tessa- Sue~*In- loving- memory*~
Gone. But the- ledgend lives on |
| | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 6:28am PST | | | | | | I have a feeling that this thread could turn sour.
Have I thought about feeding like prey, yes. Have I done it? No.
I don't think I would give them live prey in a confined area.. I DO want to set them loose on a apple orchard, which is full of rabbits. But this would give the rabbits a chance to get away. It would be a FAIR game of cat and mouse. Not just setting a rabbit loose in a room or dog pen.
Sally is a squirrle hunter, she's never caught one. But I cheer her on when she is after one, a dog doing what dogs do. | | | | |
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Pi
Belly Rubs- Please!
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| | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 6:51am PST | | | | | | I think feeding live pray is going a step to far. To me it's setting the dog up for an accident.
Frankly, you let a dog "hunt" and kill a chicken, then it sees the neighbors pet chicken and says "oh look dinner time" were as if you give him a dead one, I highly doubt he thinks that or will kill the chicken.
And please, go ahead and tell me they will be able to tell the difference, because i'd like to know how? How would they tell the difference between 2 live chickens? One that is for dinner and one that is a pet? | | | | |
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Chloe
Clearance Puppy - The best of them- all. |
| | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 7:11am PST | | | | | | I'd be lying if I said I never thought of it, Of course with Chloe she is much too small to beable to actually catch anything and not get hurt though. Also, Her teeth are so sharp I cut myself on them on sunday.. Sot here is an advantage to her.
I do play with her toys in a way that makes her go into hunt/pounch mode which is super cute 
I wouldn't beable to lock up a -let's say rabbit and let chloe get em, but maybe in the backyard where both could book it everywhere.
My old yorkie used to go and chase and kill mice that my dad would catch in the garage, he'd let them go into the backyard which is pretty big for a city backyard, and Christina would usually win about 70% of the time.
I can honestly say, after her hunting the mice, she never attacked a dog or cat...well...maybe a cat..but that's a different story.
Though I can also say that if Christina saw a Pet mouse, She would kill it no problem, but yorkies were raised to kill mice -rats - rabbits - squirrels ect. I'm sure she wouldn't try killing other bigger things though.
I don't know, I thought about it, probably wouldn't do it...If I did, It would be no larger than a smaller mouse. | | | | |
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Opie CGC
997659 |
| | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 8:21am PST | | | | | | Opie caught and killed his own squirrel a couple of weeks ago becuase but I took it from him because I was worried that a squirrel that was slow enough to get caught was sick. BOL It was probably just spending too much time at neighborhood bird feeders though. I really had a hard time feeling sorry for the squirrel since there fave game is to come down out of the tree ( from which the can reach the roof and the neighbors tree) and race Opie to the fence, I swear they laugh everytime Opie plows headfirst into that fence. (he's sweet , not smart) I don't think I would feed live prey b/c of the hassle. I don't hunt, but my brother has had plenty of squirell and rabbit dogs that would make quick work of either but were still fine with chickens and cats. | | | | |
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