I’m surprised any of these livestock trained guard dogs allow strangers to “rescue” them.
Leave them to do their job. If you take them you can be charged with felony theft. When I said expensive I was not kidding.
If they are not a livestock guardian dog then touching them can be really dangerous.
Leave them alone.
Do people really need to be told this?
Nice to know that people love dogs so much.
But a dog’s gotta do what a dog’s gotta do.
Maybe a collar with “This dog is working. Please do not interfere.” and chip might help?
I am blaming ex-Californians. New residents to Idaho from California see a dog off-leash in the sticks and it “must” be lost. It may not be Californians, but I am blaming them either way.
At least nobody will mistake our 20 pound Goldendoodle for a “working dog.” He might lick you to death, though. He’d happily jump into anybody’s arms who said “Nice doggie.”
It’s as bad as “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. Can’t just leave well enough alone.
It used to be Basques who did a lot of the shepherding in Idaho/Wyoming. Lived out of what looked like a gypsy wagon. There also used to still be echos of the cattleman/sheepman feud.
Yes, do-gooder idiots pick up dogs in rural areas and cart them off to turn in somewhere many miles away. Usually the dogs aren’t lost — they are wandering free fairly near their homes. If the dog is injured, maybe that is reasonable. But I suspect that the city-dwelling do-gooders can’t conceive that dogs can actually roam free. Next thing you know, people will be allowed to leave their homes and go to restaurants without permission.
Collars with owner’s phone number would solve this problem. No sympathy for the rancher unless he will make a small effort to help himself. Dogs do slip collars, but something would work.
At a rural shelter I work with, we have a recurring problem with out-of-area do-gooders who remove dogs from areas with hiking trails, and bring them to us 20 miles away. The dogs were probably half a mile from home, but we have no idea where that might be.
Rangers came in and cleared the property and told her to not feed the bears. She resumed feeding the bears and again hadda call the authorities.
This time she got arrested and the judge made her move. She was too stupid to live there.
But, she's about par for the kali IQ.
Looks like she's rescuing sheep dogs.
Leave the dogs alone. It’s the bobcats that need rescuing.
They could put tags on the dogs that say “trained sheep dog, please do not take”.
Not sure it would help, but at least then the people stupidly kidnapping the dogs would know.
According to the American Kennel Club (AKC), the Lagotto Romagnolo, an adorably fluffy Italian breed, is “generally considered the world’s finest truffle dog.”
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/dog-black-truffle-tasmania
A neighbor rescued a Great Pyrenees from a rooftop during the Flood of 93 - its owner never reported losing him so the neighbor was pretty much stuck with the huge dog and a huge feed bill. He paid me to go over and check on him when he was out of town. He was very good with me never aggressive, but woe to any dog that ventured close.
When I was feeding him I noticed that rain or shine that dog would not go into his dog house, so I decided to check in case there were wasps in it or something.
There were no wasps, it was a nice dog house, well-ventilated, dry, no obvious problems with it at all. Turned out there was a nest of wild cottontail rabbits in the dog house and as far as the dog was concerned they were his charges. He let the mother in to nurse but no cat or dog or any other varmint could get past him, so they were very safe.
