Re: Labrador Retriever: It's her breeding to hunt but this is getting ridiculous!

Maybe you could put some chicken wire covering the little pond, or around
the pond.

"Z" <foreverkitsune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello everyone! I was hoping someone could help me with a major problem
I am having with my almost two year old black labrador mix.
We adopted her from the local shelter and she was a dream! Really
sweet, doesn't bark, she didn't destory the house, and everyone adored
her!
But lately Sheba, our dog, has been driving us mad with her love for
water and hunting things in the water.

We have a pond in our backyard filled with pretty good sized coys (Well
used to be filled with pretty good sized coys) We have a dog run for
her and usually she stays on the side of the house. But lately Sheba
has been squeezing her neck out of her collar, ( no matter how tight we
make it) and she stands over the pond and harrasses the poor fish!

I got home today to find that she ATE three of them! And now the rest
of my family is getting fed up with her habit. She used to hate the
water, but I guess it couldn't be helped seeing that she is a Labrador
breed and they hunt by nature. But if this keeps up it's going to be
either the pond or her. So does anyone have a Lab? Or a dog with
instinctual problems that knows a way to get her to stop?

I don't want to punish her for doing something she was bred to do. I
just want her to lose interest in trying to hunt them down! I can't
stay home long enough to wait for her to escape in order to correct it,
I honestly don't even think that would work anyway since she has
memorized how to get out, and doesn't care that we are mad so long as
she catches a fish.

We've over fed her. Doubled her walks given her toys and nothing
amounts to her joy of standing over the pond. Someone please help us!!

~Z



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