I wonder why that trainer lied about being able to teach a young dog about hunting?? He didn't even talk of re-homing. He talked of working with the dog. If Noem wasn't qualified to work with the dog, then it needed to be re-homed. As for the biting, it sounded to me like the dog was too exuberant in its pursuit of the chickens and reacted to being prevented from the chase. (I'd truly like to know if it was a serious bite or a reactionary one, and if the latter, how bad was it?) Are you honestly going to tell me that such behavior can't be corrected in a dog?
Doesn't matter the why... If he bit anyone other than her, the sentence would be immediate and automatic. Since it was her dog, I guess it was her decision, which might not have happened but that it was the neighbor's livestock. No doubt that must supersede any mercy she might have given otherwise.
And she is talking about a BITE. As I opined earlier, a dog can be nippy - and I have often been warned bout it. a nip is not a bite.
And there are different levels of tolerance to some degree outside of that. For instance, breaking up a melee - especially among sled dogs and mountain dogs. That's done with a club - You literally have to beat them back from killing each other - There the bloodlust is on em, and there ain't nothing for it but to wade in and break it up... It's not uncommon to take a bite from that.
But a dog with the bloodlust in em (that won't come off a kill for instance) won't last for long otherwise.
So it is somewhat more situational up in the hills... But even there, killing livestock is death.
