The National Sheep Association's (NSA) annual questionnaire asked members to give details of attacks that their flocks have suffered over the previous year.
A fifth of farmers said they believed the most effect deterrent would be shooting canines carrying out attacks on sight....would be 'giving the owners the second barrel'.
Shortly after we purchased a working Black Lab we took him on our regular walk in hills. He saw the walking clouds and ran towards them to say "Hello"*. They ran, he pursued them, I pursued him. When I caught him he received a good leash whipping.
ReplyDeleteThereafter, he never did it again and he taught two later working dogs to ignore them.
* He also jumped off a bridge and a wall and a..... and swam towards swans/ducks to say hello - swans/ducks not happy. Stupid, but friendly, dog.
An old farmer's trick was to put a chase-happy dog in with an irascible old ram. The dog soon learned they weren't ALL prey!
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