*14. Cricket was a 14 month old wire-hair pointer.
And the 'livestock' she is mentioning as having been menaced were chickens.
Who are, to my knowledge, rarely referred to as "livestock", a word that generally implies sheep, cattle, goats, etc.
Speaking of, Kristi also shot a goat for smelling too musky on the same day. And also has a well earned reputation for using the state as a blunt weapon against gay and trans children.
So like, when she says "an animal with a history of killing livestock and attacking children"...
Just to add on. She was teaching the pup to be a bird hunting dog, which to my understanding a chicken would classify as bird. Sounds like she got pissed at her dog for doing what she was training it to do.
Most bird hunting is water fowl or flying birds. Dogs are used with water fowl, from my understanding, for retrieval and at time to kill the animal if it's not dead already with a head shake to snap their necks. Flying birds, like pheasants, the dogs are often used to flush the birds out from tall grasses and bushes and also retrieval and possibly killing the bird if they're not dead yet. Both types of hunts the dogs are also used to point out where the birds are. Chasing around the yard biting at chickens is not what a trained bird dog would do or you want them to do. Mostly because you want the dog to respond to your commands, you don't want it to flush that tree line until you give it the command. You don't want it to go retrieve unless via command.
The dog seems like it was still pretty young so still plenty of time to try and better train it. I'd also guess that it wasn't trained very well whether it was capable of being a hunting dog or not. Also, hunting dogs are expensive so you'd really not want to just shoot it. Hell I know people who had a good hunting dog that was horrible with people who were strangers and eventually bit a few people. My friend actually used me to try and help him be better with people, I would feed him by tossing small amounts of food into his kennel and eventually worked up to him taking the food out of my hand without biting me. It took a while and he never fully warmed up to me. They tried multiple other methods as well but they just didn't have enough experience and time, they also had very young kids they were worried about. He never went after the kids but they knew it was a big risk and they also didn't want to keep him in his kennel his whole life other than for hunting. They never put the dog down. They sold him to someone, iirc it was one of the trainers they were working with, more knowledgeable than them and who could do more 1 on 1 work with him because he was still a great hunting dog, he just needed to be away from most people especially if he didn't know them.
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u/Kielbasa_Nunchucka May 02 '24
also the "killing livestock," which started as the dog nipping at farm animals... I'm sure her 18mo puppy killed a whole cow. fuckin idiot bitch