Posted on 12/04/2022 12:47:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
As I said in my first post, I see a cattle farmer’s donkey every day standing out there with the cattle calmly grazing and mixing in with the scattered herd. I guess it’s easier for the farmer because the donkeys pretty much eat like the cattle - grazing. Personally, I think they’re better with cattle than sheep, but they are largely used.
‘There is a difference between a herding dog and a guard dog’
That is why a German Shepherd is perhaps one of the most useful worker canines out there. An elegant mixture of both.
I will consider more the ‘guardness’ of asses - simply saying they have no teeth as it were - cheers
Awesome dog.
Donkeys are a common practice where I
live, and they are an effective defense
against coyotes. What I’ve witnessed
Zfirst hand, that in the furry of
battle between donkey and Coyote, is
sheep become collateral damage. A sheeps’
demise is their ingrained desire to
follow the leader. Once the leader
ceases to no longer exist, the heard
suffers utter confusion. Coyotes are
a cunning vicious prediator.
Good doggie. Well done!
There’s a guy we pass on the way to the new house who has an eclectic collection of oddball cattle, horses, goats, and sheep - and a couple of donkeys. And now that you’ve said this, I wonder if that isn’t the reason for the donkeys.
Does he have a night vision scope? I would assume yes.
Nice job he’s doing, it seems to me, based on the numbers.
I had a friend whose donkey killed some of their smaller breed goats. We stick with our Great Pyrenees. Great big teddy bears, but don’t mess with their herd!
Only on FR will I read an article about a guard dog, and the Thread turns into a great debate over donkeys. You learn something new every day.
If only Pastors would guard God’s flock like this!
My Siberian Husky spends so much time out at the back fence, we are pretty sure she has a coyote boyfriend.
I don’t know why the shepherd wasn’t carrying. I would have been. Whenever you see coyotes, kill them. You don’t leave your buddy all alone to have to fight off a whole pack.
Yes. People don’t realize donkeys are quite aggressive if threatened and they will kill you. Their kicks are lethal. The animal that kills more humans every year in Africa is not the Nile crocodile nor lions of the Serengeti. Nope. Its the Donkey.
And this is why they recommend dogs for home protection.
Donkeys are very alert.
I used to live next door to an Alpaca ranch. The owner had two donkeys that were ok and mostly quite. One night at about 1am all heck broke out. I got up to see what the commotion was in time to see these two donkey’s had a coyote cornered and were stomping the stuffing out of it. They continued to do that until the coyote was literally flat.
Good dog. Here’s a muttonchop...;-)
One of my ancestors, Peter Powers, was a pioneer into the unsettled regions of New Hampshire in the early 18th century. He was tired of loosing pigs, and so he raised a guard bore, Old Tusky, who, after a few years on the job took on two big bear at once, killed them both, and survived, “to tell the tale”, although he was torn up pretty bad.
The story was put into writing fairly early on, and eventually published.
That’s some pig.
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