AUSTRALIANS FEAR NEW BREED OF 'SUPERDOG' (EWE CANNOT BE SERIOUS!)

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[peabers]

Up yours.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Been helping with this legal case, in a small way. Ron Stockwell, a sheep grazier (your 'rancher') from Corryong, sued the (state of) Victoria for compensation for flock losses from feral dog depredation. You have to be there, to see how bad the problem's become; in August, during calving, dogs patrol the cattle herd all night, hunting placenta pickings. The sheep losses are tremendous. Graziers have been sitting up at night, rifle in hand, over their flocks, like they used to 150 years ago. Ron won $108,000 yesterday, which should open the floodgates for many well-justified similar claims. One grazier at Tibooburra in New South Wales has lost over 6000 sheep in the last three or four years.

The problem started to expand exponentially when they banned the use of steel-jawed traps, on the grounds of 'animal welfare.'. Old hands at dog trapping were no longer able to surgically take out problem killers. Poison doesn't work, because why would a wily dog take a bait when there's plenty of live mutton on hand? And shooting has limited value given the huge size of farms here. So, we end up a few years later, with countless thousands of sheep torn to bits.

Yeah, animal 'welfare'......

[peabers]

Nothing worse than someone welching on a bet. I take it you condone that?

[Pistias]

Probably been done, but...

THE DINGO ATE MY BABY!

[dennisw]

NZ lamb is very good. I am a fan of it in the USA. Grass fed and better though I hear your grass/pasturage has some native plants.

[dennisw]

Wot happened to their famous dingo fence!

[jjbrouwer]

I doubt Byron bets. Almost every post he has ever made has been boll*cks so he would be wise to avoid shelling out his hard-earned!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..nothing worse than someone welching on a bet...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..wot happened to their famous dingo fence!...

It's still there, albeit a thousand or so kilometres north.

The problem referenced in this piece is the growth in numbers of dogs living in the rugged mountain country along the New South Wales-Victoria border. Due to pressure from animal rights wackos, dog control programs in national parks have been put on hold for at least the last ten years. Hunting wallabies in the wet sclerophyll forests is a lot harder than pulling down a lamb in a paddock, so the dogs live on the fringe and hunt the farms now.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...I doubt Byron bets....

Correct. Not even on the Melbourne Cup.

Now, don't you have a teen porn thread to post somewhere, JJ?

[jjbrouwer]

Shows your own intellect, Byron. Peabers and I often post drunk and are smarter than you. That thread you refer to was written by a girl who was attacking Britney Spears for the way she portrays herself.

And BTW, this is my thread. So I will stay on it thanks!

[XLurk]

..what the hell is a tiger quoll anyway?

Got me. But here's some pics of the dang things:

Looks like a brown possum with spots, to me.

[peabers]

Say aren't you the bullsh*t artist that owns six mansions around the world and worth billions?

[cavador]

do you have gummy bears too?

[jjbrouwer]

We can be anything we want on the Internet. Bryan is Richard Branson some days, I should imagine.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...Peabers and I often post drunk and are smarter than you...

[jjbrouwer]

Bryan, aren't you the bullsh*t artist who owns six mansions?

He also has a glamorous new office, peabs...

[jjbrouwer]

Sorry, that should have been Byron. Just that so many Aussies are called Bryan and Sheila.

[klee]

Wonder how they will take post 62, Kay...

Im sure in the spirit in which it is posted...