A factsheet on wild dogs in the Australian Alps.

http://www.pestsmart.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Wild_Dog_Fact_Sheet.pdf

G'day there PAUL1405...

That was a very interesting link you kindly provided all of us with Paul ! Much of the information contained therein was quite new to me ? I had no idea they can in their own way, assist in keeping other feral animals in check. However, they themselves are responsible for much of the killing and destruction found on grazing lands ? So I dunno mate what's to be done about them ?

Hi there IS MISE...

Your Topic certainly establishes beyond any reasonable doubt, why our poor old graziers, have a considerable need for firearms ? Not that I know anything, but even laying baits wouldn't solve the problem, as the virulent toxicity of the baits themselves, may well have a deleterious impact upon legitimate stock, including the 'Cockys' working dogs ? Trapping also may have a similar negative effect, by unintentionally ensnaring stock ? Personally I don't like traps in any form. They cause unbearable agony hour after hour.

Not unlike those frightening 'pangi' pits we had in Vietnam ? To witness any human being or animal, impaled upon those bastard things, is the makings of a horrific nightmare ! Being caught in a pangi pit, was the one thing that absolutely terrified me, more than anything else I reckon ?

I guess there's no other real option, other than destruction by the reliable ol' 12g ? Seemingly the only adequate way of dealing with these feral dogs and cats ?

And that's not all that brilliant either, the farmer's got more to do with his or her time, than standing guard in a cold dark paddock in the hope of snaring a few of these critters ? Buggered if I know - who'd be a grazier ?

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