How do I keep my small dogs safe from owls at night as I walk them?

Question

I have 2 Chichahuhu that need to go out and we have an owl living here too.

Answer 1

No one is going to come get rid of your owl, call all you want. Shooting it or injuring it in any way on purpouse is illegal, there are protections on ALL birds of prey.

There's a relatively new invention that I heard about... I think it's called a "leash".

Answer 2

Well your dogs do look like rats......just kidding!

I found this at a site about owls:

Q: I have a little [ cat, dog, ferret, aardvark ] as a pet, will an Owl attack and eat it?

A: The large Bubo Species will occasionally take small domesticated animals as prey when their usual supply of pesky rodents is running low. The best advice is to keep your pet indoors or caged at night. You should keep in mind that domestic pets kill many native birds and animals each year, so keeping it in at night will also save some of these lives.


Maybe get a fenced in kennel that you can put your dogs into at night when they need to do their business?

Answer 3

Throw a Rat outside
and hope the owl goes for that instead.

Answer 4

There are collars that light up. These will scare the owls. Or something like the red flashing lights that cyclist use at night.

Answer 5

Keep them on a leash. it's very unlikely an owl is going to attack with you standing right there.

Answer 6

call animal control to get rid of the owl

Answer 7

put each of them a necklace when you go out with them for now and if the owl comes take them in your arms.

Answer 8

take an umbrella and keep the dog under it

Answer 9

bad mitten racket

Answer 10

shotgun