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I had one, actually I had two. Never again! If you don’t have a job for them, they’ll invent their own. Mine would herd the cows for no apparent reason and try to herd the horses but my horses just ignored them.
My old farm had a ladder to the loft. Maggie would climb the ladder and carefully walk onto the rafters over the horse stalls and snatch and kill the roosting guineas- until I caught onto her game and removed the bottom rungs of the ladder. The final straw was when they killed my big friendly goose- I found new homes for both of them rather quickly after that.
But I’d take another half-heeler in a heartbeat. I had an “oops” puppy- half heeler and half German Shepherd X. She was the smartest, best-est farm dog EVER! She was kind to all animals and almost all people- the only person I ever saw her growl at was a belligerent horse-trader type that thought he’d just walk on up to the (obviously private) barn without stopping at the house. She was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime dog.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, we want to raise meat birds, but I’m certain that Rusty would love to end their lives rather quickly if he could get ahold of them.
My parents also have a cat that he would kill if he caught ahold of her. Their other cat, he’s fine with, we have a cat and he’s fine with him (plays a little rough sometimes, but doesn’t try to kill him!) and I brought him to a friends house and he wasn’t mean to her cat (in fact, her cat literally chased the dog around the property and Rusty came running back to me…). But that one cat that my parents have would come to an unfortunate end if he ever catches her…I’m not sure why he is only fixated on her…
