WTF!?!? Dogs for SHTF

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i'm thinking of all the dogs who either escape or get left behind when the urbanites flee to safer ground, they will band together and form packs post SHTF, they will be a serious threat to anyone out in the open, I know every dog here too, they wont be a problem, but the packs from the towns and cities will roam the countryside looking for any food they can find, a pack can be a dangerous thing and should not be underrated as a serious threat to life and limb.
but you've obviously got a different opinion, so i'll leave it there.
 
The way I see it is if it poses a threat to me or my family than it’s dead, at the same time if it can provide nourishment than it’s in my belly. When complete hunger sets in and your starving that puts you in a whole different mind set depending how severe it is and your mental state.
 
I got 3 Rotties outside that watch over the live stock, they generally kill and eat the rabbits on the property. When it is cold outside they come in the mud room and the wife has food for them, overall they pretty self reliant.
Could I borrow your rabbit eating dogs for a weekend? :) My neighborhood is OVERRUN with rabbits. I literally counted 9 leaving my subdivision to work the other morning.... I also caught a bob cat on my security camera about 5 a.m. walking down my driveway..and yet there are still tons of rabbits.
 
As stated, I like dogs. BUT with that being said, if it came down to me or the dog dying, the dog is history. I would not want to kill my dog but if I die from starvation, what is the do going to do --- starve or turn feral and then get shot by somebody trying to defend their family. It would have to be a last resort type of event but that is the truth of the matter. As far as I am concerned, there are no sacred animals WSHTF.
 
Could I borrow your rabbit eating dogs for a weekend? :) My neighborhood is OVERRUN with rabbits. I literally counted 9 leaving my subdivision to work the other morning.... I also caught a bob cat on my security camera about 5 a.m. walking down my driveway..and yet there are still tons of rabbits.
Get a cage trap and find a recipe for rabbit.
 
Get a cage trap and find a recipe for rabbit.
I have been looking at traps online. I watched the video of how to set one. Seems simple enough. It said to check your local laws about trapping animals. I checked, and it turns out my city will actually loan traps for 10 days. If something is caught, they will come out and remove and relocate. I am contacting them Monday morning. Time to put my tax dollars to work. If it is as easy as it sounds, I will put a neighborhood post up. If several of us do it at the same time, it could make an impact sooner than later.
 
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I have been looking at traps online. I watched the video of how to set one. Seems simple enough. It said to check your local laws about trapping animals. I checked, and it turns out my city will actually loan traps for 10 days. If something is caught, they will come out and remove and relocate. I am contacting them Monday morning. Time to put my tax dollars to work. If it is as easy as it sounds, I will put a neighborhood post up. If several of us do it at the same time, it could make an impact sooner than later.

My son in San Diego had a raccoon problem, so I checked on trapping. Yes the city would loan a trap an come get it BUT they were prohibited from relocating it. It had to be released into the same area. Now that is government logic in action. Yeah I want to bother catching it, just so it could be given a ride to a few blocks away. It had a hunting accident after it injured one of his cats.
 
My son in San Diego had a raccoon problem, so I checked on trapping. Yes the city would loan a trap an come get it BUT they were prohibited from relocating it. It had to be released into the same area. Now that is government logic in action. Yeah I want to bother catching it, just so it could be given a ride to a few blocks away. It had a hunting accident after it injured one of his cats.
The government is stupid and very inefficient. I would tell them, I could not catch a thing, every critter would end up in the freezer or a pot.
 
Could I borrow your rabbit eating dogs for a weekend? :) My neighborhood is OVERRUN with rabbits. I literally counted 9 leaving my subdivision to work the other morning.... I also caught a bob cat on my security camera about 5 a.m. walking down my driveway..and yet there are still tons of rabbits.

Best dogs I’ve seen keeping the rabbit population under some control are dalmatians. A farm over 20 miles away has a pack of 4 dalmatians, the farm has no rabbit problems. I for one don’t like the dog breed (not a good family breed)
 
they usually use a small breed for rabbiting over here, something like a Jack Russell, I live in the middle of Jack Russell country , this is the area where the breed first originated.

AND, how is the rabbit population doing in Jack Russel country?
 
Best dogs I’ve seen keeping the rabbit population under some control are dalmatians. A farm over 20 miles away has a pack of 4 dalmatians, the farm has no rabbit problems. I for one don’t like the dog breed (not a good family breed)
Yeah, I had a cousin that had one. All the dog ever did was jump the fence and run.
 
Yeah, I had a cousin that had one. All the dog ever did was jump the fence and run.
My money for rabbit and woodchuck control is the siberian husky.

We had one when I was a kid in upstate NY, and she was a great family dog . . . but she ruthlessly killed any wild animal in her territory that was smaller than she was.
She greased about 175 woodchucks in one summer . . . and that was a gross underestimate as that was after we started counting.
 
My money for rabbit and woodchuck control is the siberian husky.

We had one when I was a kid in upstate NY, and she was a great family dog . . . but she ruthlessly killed any wild animal in her territory that was smaller than she was.
She greased about 175 woodchucks in one summer . . . and that was a gross underestimate as that was after we started counting.
I believe it - I saw a husky kill a kitten.
 
Could I borrow your rabbit eating dogs for a weekend? :) My neighborhood is OVERRUN with rabbits. I literally counted 9 leaving my subdivision to work the other morning.... I also caught a bob cat on my security camera about 5 a.m. walking down my driveway..and yet there are still tons of rabbits.
Was it a fat bob cat?!
 

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