On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:28:05 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

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>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:31:28 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
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>>>On 10/15/2014 6:11 PM, Jeßus wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:00:59 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Jeßus" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> All lambs were female this year - very pleased - aside from the one I
>>>>>> lost to a dog attack last week. Tracked down the owner and they
>>>>>> replaced the lamb with a ewe... they got their $2000 German Shepard
>>>>>> back wrapped in a blanket.
>>>>>
>>>>> You killed the dog?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it was the right thing to do. Their Wolfhound was also in on the
>>>> act, and the only reason it too wasn't wrapped in a blanket was
>>>> because I only had two rounds in my rifle.
>>>>
>>>
>>>You have to remember, he lives in a rural area in Australia. If people
>>>let their dogs run loose and they kill valuable livestock what would you
>>>expect him to do? Ask the dogs politely to sit and stay? Please don't
>>>kill anymore lambs while I make the call?
>>
>> I didn't even know whose dogs they were for two days, but I had heard
>> about a Wolfhound killing other people's stock for the past two months
>> or so. I know that they have killed at least 6 lambs of my neighbours
>> before mine. Nobody, including the owners of the dog, has a problem
>> with my shooting the dog. If it wasn't for one of my ewes smashing
>> through the gate (amazing in itself) next to my house at 1AM, I would
>> have had no idea about it until the morning and the carnage would have
>> been total.
>>
>> This all happened at 1AM in the morning, BTW, and I still wasn't
>> finished getting things back to normal by 8AM. Found three ewes way up
>> my creek and had to carry them back one by one in the dark... oh what
>> fun
>>
>> Once dogs start killing livestock - they never stop.
>
>That's true. We had around 300 head of sheep and did have problems
>occasionally too.

It goes with the territory, unfortunately. We are lucky here that the
only real predators are dogs, we have no foxes or dingoes in Tasmania.