So I just had a very similar event happen.
I have a litter of 8 puppies . The dad is pure bred German shepherd and the mom, who we have is a shepherd mix. They are 9 weeks old today. The other day we came home from running errands to find that they broke into the chicken coop, and killed 10 chickens.
The mom has always been great. She is young tho. She is only 1 year old now. She had never killed one of our chickens before until the puppies started.
Then they went after my male duck, and we caught them trying to eat him alive.
This afternoon , my neighbour came flying over to my house, in a panic to inform me that she just had to go save one of the puppies from being killed by the mom and 2 other pups. One male and one female . They had her and were ragdolling her by her neck with no intentions of stopping . When I got them all separated , and put into their pens, I then witnessed those 2 same puppies , go straight for the hurt puppies neck , with definite intent to kill. There was absolutely no form of playing involved. I grabbed those two instigators and separated them.
I am absolutely distraught over this.
My neighbour does not feel that her animals are safe and I 10000% understand.
I believe those specific pups that were intentionally trying to kill the other female will have to be put down. As for the mom, we haven’t figured out her fate yet, but it is absolutely unacceptable what she did and we will not have a dog like that.
I grew up with my mom breeding dogs. Out of 6 litters, we never once witnessed anything like this.
Thank you for this feed. I have read every comment and response.
This is extremely overwhelming and I feel for all of you who have experienced something similar.
