I’m a little bit traumatized by the situation, but I’m looking for advice. I have a two year old male GSD that I’ve had since he was 3 months. He didn’t come from the best home, but since we’ve had him he’s been more than loved. He has a two year old female golden retriever as a companion.
Today when I got home from work my chickens had got out of my yard, so I went to go get it. He followed me out the fence, I figured that once he was already too far out of the fence he could tag along. The chicken was under a laundry basket, he sees that and hears the chicken and decides to try to get at it. I tell him no a number of times and he eventually backs off and sits down maybe 3 feet away. I’m finally able to get the chicken from under the basket and he leaps up and gets a mouthful of feathers. I try to hold the chicken above me, but when he’s on his hind legs he’s pretty much the same height as me, so he jumped up and took it from me. He mauled it right in front of me.
This is not his first time killing a chicken, he got his first a few months ago when left unattended. But he hadn’t even gotten close enough to sniff them since then.
My husband doesn’t want to get rid of the dog but I am traumatized and terrified of him now. We have a one year old who loves to play with the dogs and I’m scared that one day when I’m not looking he might get ahold of my baby.
I just don’t understand wgat could have went wrong, the chickens have been around our GSD since he was one, so he’s used to them.
What terrifies me most is how easy he was able to tower over me and take it from me, I have NEVER seen him so determined to get something from me in his life.
I don’t really know what looking for from this post, any advice is welcome…
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