Well, not but a few weeks after my post about "free range hens" and "free range dogs", we have been hit hard. Our hens had been ranging around our farm for a few weeks, and on Saturday, after a brief trip to the lake with the kids, and our two dogs, we returned home to seven dead hens strewn about the farmyard and pasture. Whatever it was that killed the birds, it wasn't too hungry, most of the birds had no visible sign of trauma. The three layers and rooster that survived are now locked up for the forseeable future, too bad.
Now what do we do? Do we turn the other cheek? Do we "hate the sin, but love the sinner"? HELL NO, we get out the guns and go hunting. I may be out on a limb here, but this is my blog and I'm the Hunter, the Provider, and if anyone is killing anything around here, it's ME. If any dog is unlucky enough to be "wandering through" our pasture in the near future, it better have its will up to date. I did take a few hours to visit all my neighbors and let them know that I've got an itchy trigger finger. If their little pooch decides to come back for dessert, he won't be going home.
Now calm down PETA, ASPCA and all you other liberal groups. I believe in "innocent until proven guilty" and all those other rights that we have. But we are people, citizens of the United States. Dogs, foxes, bob cats and the like have the right to exist because we let them, and for no other reason. So steer clear Rover if you know what is good for you or my gun and hot lead will be your reward.
