Betty, would you please provide a link that proves your claim that these dogs are being trained to KILL.

I know you can't do that.

It's because they are NOT being trained to kill. Guess what type of dogs they're using? Labradors and spaniels..........hey Betty, I hope you don't own any KILLER spaniels and KILLER labradors.

When you make outrageous and false claims such as this, it only spreads misinformation.

The rabbit programme is a complex and lengthy $25,000,000 project. The environment and unique natural wildlife there MUST be protected. The dogs only arrive near the end of the main programme, and will remain there doing their work for about 5 years.

Here's a link to the "truth"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/22/2224092.htm

jw you are not worth the effort talking too.
if calling me Betty is not flaming nothing is.
have no doubt it does not make you look smart
BELLY

Belly

You may think jw "not worth the effort talking too".

But is he right when he challenges your allegation that dogs are being trained to kill rabbits but not penguins?

You can talk to the rest of us.

Belly, my apologies. I thought your screen name was Betty, my eyes are not what they used to be. A simple visual error.

I wonder why you didn't admit you got it wrong, in light of the "factual proof" in my link? That these gentle Labradors and spaniels will NOT be there to be rabbit KILLERS. Have you ever owned, or worked with, Labradors and spaniels?

Hang on jw while I without reserve except your apology's you may not claim your source is proof.
I too am no kid, and yes I make mistakes.
But the dogs shown in the press story I saw are border collies.
It may well be those dogs got posed for the picture, it happens, but if so it proves my point you can no believe everything you read.
Now that story did not say they would be used to flush out rabbits.
I however am willing to except your view that they are.
However
Life has taught me, never ever believe it just because you saw it in the Medea.
I at 11 years of age camped in a paddock with dad for months, snow and heat.
We trapped rabbits and sold them to a freezer works.
The skins bought much less than the meat but it helped .
Dad had a greyhound dog, she was our mate, she killed a few rabbits but trapping and the dog did not reduce numbers much.
Have you seen poison gas in borrows?
Penguins and just maybe, almost surely mutton birds live in rabbit borrows.
I believe with no doubt the rabbits must go , but have doubts dogs can or should be used to do it.
Now freezers are portable, have a look at some not unlike shipping containers.
If rabbits came in numbers to meat markets, wild rabbits they would sell like hot cakes.

Actually, as to the type of dog I expect most could be trained to chase and kill rabbits. My sister has a lab that loves nothing better than a good bunny chase with a yummy fresh bunny at the end of it. I suspect that most labs are town dogs, and generally to fat to care about chasing. Farm dogs are generally a different story though. As for spaniels, neighbours used to have a spaniel that loved a rabbit chase. It was too fat to be any danger to the bunnies, but it liked getting its share of the goods at the end of the hunt.