Well, that's one way to meet the neighbours!
Glad to know your chicken protection is working. Hopefully they can keep the dog safer in future. Lucky for you she was a good natured dog though!
Our new Dachshund Loy (Also known as Noodle) has been both a joy and challenging. We have given her a home at the age of three after being used as breeding stock for a local Amish family. She is all about people. Her biggest desire in the day is to lay near you and accept all the affection you can give. Her personality has been progressively coming out and it has been amusing to watch. She enjoys barking at the mailman as he walks by each day, but won't bark at other walkers in the street. Loy has some prey drive to her and has proudly brought me a chipmunk once in her mouth when I wasn't keeping an eye on her as best as I should of been. She also is a serial carpet pooper which has been a challenge! It has been accident after accident, mostly at night while we sleep, and my first few tricks have not worked.
Dachsund on the wife.
We made the decision that we will start a crate training protocol to try and help her control her bathroom urges last night. I have a crate that we used on her 'sister' who is a much bigger Plott Hound stored up in my crawlspace that I got out and brought downstairs. Luckily there is an insert so I can limit the floor space so she doesn't make a potty spot and a laying spot. Anyway, I did not get the crate setup last night as I need to clean it up. What I did do is close the dog into the bedroom with me last night. I fully expected to wake up to a mess but low and behold there wasn't any issues! She did her business outside when I got up and she got a little treat.
Dachsund and a Bully Stick
We will see if we can get a second successful night...
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