Keep the pooch on a lead or expect to get it blasted! Farmers have enough to deal with without their likestock being attacked. Dog owners should remember that they are on someone elses land and keep their dog under proper control.
Farmers don't need proof. If you are on their land and your dog is not in full control, they can shoot it.Razorstrop said:Sorry I'll beg to differ. Unless someone saw it doing it theres no conclusive proof.
Mr Strop
HuBBa said:Its kinda funny since if this had been in Sweden, the dogs wouldn't have been blamed. The wolves would have. And more outcry and demand of killing every ragged wolf would be heard .. this regardless of the fact that the closest wolf to that sheepfarm might be the other side of the country
But i guess its just not fashionable here to think that little 'ol "princess" could rip out the throat of a sheep.
Lurch said:We get all kinds of dogs being so close to a town, mostly though the mongrels were the culprits due to them being more likely to be roaming sans owners.
I really think Border Collies (or curs as we call them) are a most unsuitable dog for a townie, they need a huge amount of stimulation and discipline of the level that not many can provide. Shame because they are a lovely dog if you can provide them with what they need.
Wayne said:Personally i think farmers are a little too free with their guns.
pierre girard said:Best dog we ever had, when I was a kid, was Mike, a border colley (though we never knew what he was at the time).
Mike would bring in the cows, and nip at them if they tried to go in the wrong stall. Dog was smarter than snuff.
Mike started killing sheep. It says something about the dog that my father didn't immediately shoot it. He tried everything he could think of to keep the dog from going after sheep, even tieing a dead sheep to the dog. Nothing worked, and the number of sheep Mike killed soon outweighed his worth as a cow dog. A very sad day for us as kids.
PG