Farmer shoots two huskies, one of them dies

Since you own huskies would you put this down to instinctive behaviour or poor training?

Not sure, she could sit but that's about it. So probably bad training. We couldn't even get her to stop jumping up at people. We tried to train her, but maybe it was our fault for being rubbish at it. The thing is she knew how to kill a sheep on her first try, so there must be some instinctive element, and every time we took her for a walk she would go and explore far and wide. She even killed a rabbit once while on the lead.

The funniest thing is that she got terrified of this tiny dog once, some stupid little terrier. She ran all the way home just from seeing it. (very surprised at her ability to navigate, have lost a few dogs and they all seem to be able to work out where home is)

My theory is that any dog whose ears are still pointy is essentially just a small wolf and has very strong senses and instincts and will be hard to train. We owned terriers after her and they're sort of the same, but smaller and therefore easier to manage.

Rather pathetic and hypocritical that people thought this was fine when you're going to eat those lambs anyway.

The law is crystal clear on this. A landowner is well within their rights to shoot any dog posing a threat to livestock. So let this incident be a reminder to keep your dogs under control in the countryside.

I worked on a sheep and cattle farm for a few years, which had several public footpaths through it. Most dog walkers were fine and responsible, but you did get the odd few (almost always urban types) who seemed to treat the place as a park rather than a working farm and would let their dogs roam all over the place, despite numerous signs telling people to keep their dogs on a lead. And we did once come close to shooting a dog. This utterly moronic couple thought it was just hilarious to let their dog chase our sheep around the field. They were just standing there laughing at this, right up until me and another worker walked up to them with loaded shotguns and quite bluntly said, "get that dog on a lead now or we will shoot it". They did so promptly, but not without getting all huffy about it, as though it was a totally unreasonable request to not allow their dog to traumatise our sheep. We later found out one of the sheep had badly broken it's leg during this event, and she died a week later.

Since you own huskies would you put this down to instinctive behaviour or poor training?

I must add I side with the farmer, it's down to dog owners to control their dogs.

Tbh that's exactly what they should be doing, and there should be rams to protect them. But I guess humans need their meat and wool the sooner we learn to accomodate the needs of wild animals and end domestication the better, imo

The law is crystal clear on this. A landowner is well within their rights to shoot any dog posing a threat to livestock. So let this incident be a reminder to keep your dogs under control in the countryside.

I worked on a sheep and cattle farm for a few years, which had several public footpaths through it. Most dog walkers were fine and responsible, but you did get the odd few (almost always urban types) who seemed to treat the place as a park rather than a working farm and would let their dogs roam all over the place, despite numerous signs telling people to keep their dogs on a lead. And we did once come close to shooting a dog. This utterly moronic couple thought it was just hilarious to let their dog chase our sheep around the field. They were just standing there laughing at this, right up until me and another worker walked up to them with loaded shotguns and quite bluntly said, "get that dog on a lead now or we will shoot it". They did so promptly, but not without getting all huffy about it, as though it was a totally unreasonable request to not allow their dog to traumatise our sheep. We later found out one of the sheep had badly broken it's leg during this event, and she died a week later.

or arrogant idiots learn that their pleasant ewalk in the country is trampling their way through the farmers 'office'

Surprised it took this long for somebody to have a problem, and not really, the shooting is protection of property, what's later done with that property is largely irrelevant to the right to protect it.

If you're demolishing your house in 6 months does that make it alright for somebody to demolish it now?

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dogs need quality of life too and dogs hate leads

The assumption being that you were 100% certain the dogs will kill the lamb. Don't try and bait me with an inaccurate metaphor.

letting a dog off a lead in a farmer;s field is aggravted trespass and thefarmer is perfectly within his /her rights to protect his/her business to shoot the useless mouth .

This isn't about whether the lambs would be killed anyway, it is the fact that the farmer is losing money by not being able to sell his stock if it has been killed.

uncontrolled dogs near livestock can and will be shot.

The law supports this action to protect the stock and the farmer's business from the arrogance and idiocy of stupid townies who treat farmland as a park .