@iapetus_rocks wrote:
Do you know how Siamese fighting fish are displayed?
They are kept in separate fishtanks placed adjacent to one another and a piece of cardboard is placed between the tanks.
Then, when a "display" (of aggression) is required, you just remove the cardboard, so the (male) fish can see each other.
Why is it even necessary to introduce your pet prey animal to your pet hunter animal at all?
Oh nothing could be more necessary imo ir. Both are just as much part of the family as the other. The hunter will need to be conditioned to accept the so called pet prey (as you put it)
When I got my husky (she was 6 weeks old) at 2 months old she killed one of my roosters. It was partly my fault, I was late getting home that day and (because he was the exciled rooster, often when you have more than one rooster in the flock, the youngest will get exciled from being near the flock by the oldest rooster. He was tryng to find a spot in the shed to roost for the night, (as he had been doing for a week or so, I'm gathering... as I didn't see what initially happened, I just got home to her having a feast out on the remains. Her belly was as full as a goog.
Needless to say she was punished, quite severly and made to stay outside tied up for half the night (until her whining just got too much for me and I let her back in the house, to where she just sat and slept inbetween sulking for the rest of the night.
All I could think was "Oh no shes blooded now, ruined. I'll never be able to trust her around the chickens again." So I kept track of her every movements from then on every time she went outside, if she so much as even looked sideways at one of them I'd either chain her up for a bit or verbally repremand her like *in my best pack leader voice* "Wolfie ah ah" bit like if she was a baby about to touch something it shouldn't but with more growl in my voice, than I would use on a child -If that makes sense-
One particular day about 4 or 5 weeks later one of the clucky hens had hatched out two babies, they were probably a week or two old, just starting to venture out from the nesting boxes where they'd hatched. I heard a bit of commotion out in the coup, next thing I saw the muma hen at the back door (looking disturbed) with a bite mark on her back and only one baby left. I was like "Right thats it" I took the muma hen up to the dog, showed her excatly what she had done, literally belted her severeral times and verbally repremanded her, and tied her up in the actuall chicken coup on a short chain for the rest of the day (with water of course) but no food... I cant remember I may have left her out there over night as well. That really was the last straw for me, it was either that or a serious look into re housing her.
I was getting attached to her though by this time and hated the thought of letting her go, not to mention feeling such a failure for what had happened to her. As in thinking she was most definately blooded now and I'd have to keep her seperated from the chickens for the rest of her days.
Thank goodness I was wrong. She is nearly four and never touched or tried to eat one of them since. She can be out for hours and overnight and shows no sign of ever even trying to take a nibble...
Sorry bout the lenghty post but I believe with alot of time, perserverance, TLC, and strict discpline dogs will learn that they have to be at the bottom of the pack. It's just how it has to be. Otherwise they will try and dominate the whole household. They need to look up to their owners as pack leaders otherwise they can really go viscious and hungry for blood. There is no room for complacency 🙂
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