GenuineRisk
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- Somerset
I've kept a LOT of dogs over the last 65 years and never had one run off after bitches in heat, probably because I believe working dogs should be kept locked up or chained up unless working or under supervision. If you let dogs run around loose and out of control, what do you expect?
Couldn’t agree more and I had real hassle when I first moved here, as I breed and work Weimaraners, so obviously have one or sometimes, two bitches coming into season regularly. My garden is well fenced now but wasn’t as we are quite out of the way and my bitches then were steady and older. So I wasn’t best pleased to keep finding a ****** collie dog outside by back door waiting for my bitches to be let out to be clean etc.... I knew whose dog it was, so, in the interests of getting on with my farming neighbours, I’d call and let them know..... fast forward a few years, my homebred bitches are younger, my neighbour has a new collie dog and the whole annoying process starts again, although this time, my garden is property fenced but dog waits by garden gate into yards... it also starts appearing in the middle of the night, howling ! Waking my lot up, of course. Patience by now is wafer thin, I couldn’t give a four x about uosetting said neighbour, as by now I’ve learned this is a long family tradition, it being something to brag about how many litters the current so-called working dog has sired locally.
Luckily for me, the owner now has a small family and so I took great pleasure in ringing them up at 02:00, telling them their dog is outside my gates, waking my lot up and me, so I thought I’d share the joy..... after that, the dog was kept on a chain. However, the real last laugh was owner decided he’d like to breed his own replacement working dog, so buys in a puppy bitch to breed to said dog,,,of course, they then learned of the joys of trying to keep an entire dog with a young bitch - and the noise from a dog that knows what breeding a bitch is all about and at least one unwanted litter... no surprise dog then gets castrated... Karma does eventually catch up..