Gopher Trouble

Pogi has been tearing up the lawn big-time, digging for gophers. He knows that I don't like that, but from what I've read, stopping a dog's prey drive is almost impossible.

I bait and cover the holes when he starts, but there still are multiple gophers in the lawn. I wonder if this gopher bait is not effective.

Halo is not crazy about hunting, and never digs up the lawn, and I appreciate that.

If I gave up, the lawn would look like the surface of the moon, impossible to mow, with three-foot deep craters throughout.

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Predator Pogi

Pogi jumped the fence and attacked a tiny stray goat or lamb. I pulled him off it, and it ran away. Pogi is in the house now, but he desperately wants to go back out and find and kill it.

The whole killing instinct makes me feel sick. I wish Pogi would cool his jets, but he's an obsessive/compulsive dog and hunting fires him up. What was especially disturbing were the animal's screams when Pogi had it. They sounded almost human.

I went out and looked for it after I put Pogi inside, but it wasn't nearby. Another neighborhood dog was out wandering though, so most likely, a dog eventually found it and killed it.