Posted on 04/25/2025 4:39:37 PM PDT by george76
$160K loss but they’ll be damned if they spend $10K on guard dogs.
They could hire a couple of shepherds to go along with those dogs.
California only had 7 wolf packs? A wolf pack could be as few as 3 or as many as 7. I guess the other wolf packs went to Vegas
.308 is about 60 cents a round.
Dont need a study for what is a fact.
BTW..donkeys. Best herd watchers around.
How about Irish wolfhounds?
I recently saw a video of a donkey chasing a hyena, and the hyena was running scared, while the donkey looked very determined and aggressive.
Every species in any environment needs to be managed-if they are overpopulating so much that their natural prey are declining so they attack livestock, then there needs to be a season for hunting them so the population is brought back into balance.
But your kill em all/extermination attitude is what happened in the 19th/early 20th century. Since nature hates a vacuum, the smaller, more clever and dangerous coyotes that have little to no fear of humans filled the niche left when all the wolves were gone, so the situation got worse. Extermination of an apex predator-or any other species predator or prey-is not the correct solution-humans are not the apex predators competing in the natural world, unless you are living in a cave and hunting for food with a bow and arrow. We manage wildlife for hunting and a natural balance now-not destroy it-I’m a nature lover and also a hunter-I believe in having a balanced ecosystem...
All of my neighbors with livestock-even chickens-keep dogs like Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherds, etc and donkeys for stock-and property guards-some have llamas-also dangerous animals in spite of their cute faces. Coyotes don’t stand a chance against that kick. Stock theft, AKA rustling-still sometimes happens out here-but not on property with those dogs and donkeys. The last person killed by an animal out here was 7 years ago-kicked to death by a donkey...
Where!? Where are you getting ammo that cheap!? It’s almost 2 bucks a round here.
use ammoseek to find stuff.
Sadly I’m in BC, so it’s going fully commie now. Balkanization coming.
Sorry to hear that.
That incident was talked about for awhile-the deceased person was not a local-supposedly a thief-climbed over the fence, and was on his way to the house while everyone was at work-but encountered their donkey-who did not like strangers...
He had to have either been a meth head or a city dumbass who thought it would be easy to do a daylight theft in an isolated area with a small population-city people forget that people in BFE keep guard dogs and other guard animals, and we are not concerned about being sued by trespassers who come to harm because they ignored the no trespassing signs and purple painted posts...
True, but one wolf in California is about 5-7 years in prison.
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