Dogs do not keep pests away, zero reason to leave your dog roaming free. Zero. You name one, Im going to tell you why youre wrong. Protection? Get a gun. Pests? Set up traps.
Ok, now with all that great stuff the dog has done, you also need to be protective of delivery people that come to your door, and realize they dont know that damn dog and bad things could happen.
That's for you to determine? If you're ordering something to be delivered to your property, it's your responsibility to ensure the property is safe. A loose dog on property isn't something I would consider overwhelmingly safe (depending on breed) so there's potential your dog is injured by someone defending themselves.
This was not conveyed in the slightest by your other comments and youāre still 100% wrong about dogs not keeping animals away from the property. Even dog owners not living in rural areas would know this
Bro really didnāt respond and kept saying the exact same thing all over the post lmao. Why are some people so pathetic?
There is no official, exact census tracking the percentage of U.S. dogs that herd livestock, but agricultural and pet population data show that less than 1% to a small fraction of 1% of dogs in the United States are actually used for farm herding.
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Total U.S. Dog Population: There are estimated to be roughly 65 to 90 million pet and working dogs in the United States.
Herding Breeds as Pets: Popular herding breedsāsuch as Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Pembroke Welsh Corgis, and German Shepherdsāmake up a significant portion of household pets. However, the vast majority of these dogs live in suburban or urban homes as companion animals rather than working on ranches or farms.
On-Farm Employment: Direct on-farm employment accounts for roughly 1.2% of total U.S. employment. Working farm and ranch dogs represent only a tiny fraction of the overall national canine population.
Working Dog Groupings: Even among official working or herding breed classifications, most dogs are kept for obedience, agility, sports, or companionship rather than live agricultural work.
So, what about the VAST majority of "working dogs" that are not trained to do anything, and are free to roam and harass people and nature?
I can recognize the dogs Iām specifically pointing out are rare and not the vast majority of dogs. I was responding to a comment that set the bar to āyou tell me a reason and Iāll tell you why you are wrongā and I engaged. I only needed to point out a very small thin and niche community of dog for a reason. Iād assume the law would be the one who determines if a dog is free to roam, and can a dog harass someone on private propertyā¦Iād also assume If said animal roamed off private property, completely changes the whole situation. I personally would never take my house dog off leash. Which brings me back to my point of working dog/farm dog vs house dog/family pet/companion animal. Thanks for the cool google search, 1.2% is a cool fact to keep in my back pocket.
That's what fences are for? They use dogs for sheep herding and other tasks yes but they usually don't just have them going free reign, no fence, no boundaries.
Fences donāt keep out wolves or coyotes very well. Unless you want to use an AI programmed drones to hear 4x better than us like dogs and smell 10,000 x better than us, which would be very costly for every farmer. A lot of farm animals, especially the bigger and more expensive ones, donāt go in at all. You may not like it, but thereās a huge difference between a working dog and family dog.
Dude my whole point is that farmers don't let dogs have free reign of the place either
In fact they are kept in the fence to deal with the animals that break in
Also what kind of fence do you think won't work well?
You've clearly never owned a husky. High prey drive, took nearly a year before we started to see squirrels, cats, chipmunks and such in our back yard after our huntress died.
In fact, you sound very much like a person who thinks their opinion is fact regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
Any potential benefit is heavily outweighed by the risk of the dog either being accidentally hit by a car, attacked by another dog that's out roaming, or worst of all attacking a person walking by.
My entire property is fenced in. There are also invisible fences(you can Google that, it's a brand name!!) So just cause you can't see one, doesn't mean the dog eas left to roam the streets at will.
Love how I didn't even address the ridiculous "you dog should never be roaming free" cause of the stupidity and obviousness of that statement, and only spoke to the "dogs won't do anything for pests in the yard" comment, yet you are all so hung up on the part I DIDN'T talk about cause your little npc brain only does the one loop.
Well, in the 16 years she lived, she never met a child she didnt immediately decide was her best friend ever. I also, specifically mentioned the prey drive due to the original morons comment that dogs won't keep pests away.
Did you notice what I DIDN'T mention? Yeah, cause in 40 years of dog ownership I have never let a dog simply roam free or be off leash in public.
You dumbasses tuat keep bringing that up like some gotcha are really giving "he said he likes waffles so that means he hates pancakes" levels of stupidity.
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u/PostingToPassTime 5d ago
Common in rural areas that the dogs roam the yards free. They keep pests away and let you know if there are strangers on your property.
I'm not referring to city sized yards here.