Friday, November 04, 2005
Still Day 1
This is about wolves killing sheep.
"No reliable record for missing sheep Norwegian farmers received predator compensation for 30,500 lost sheep in 2004 - but only 2,760 sheep have been proven killed by wild animals, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports."
When a wolf attacks sheep, it kills nearly half the herd and eats only one and takes another. It wastes the rest of the herd, and that is why the farmers in Norway are so huffy about wolves and their natural relationship with their prey. THese farmers get compensation enough to buy a new herd for those they've lost, and I'm sure they buy Ewes and one or two male sheep to get more kids, but it seems to make bring up another itching idea. Why don't they pay money to the farmers to buy guard dogs for their herds? Those dogs live for at least 15 excellent patrol years, scare the shit out of wolves, and can be bought trained at a professional specialty facitlity for guarddogs.
The cost is almost 1000 dollars, I'd assume, if they could get those dogs trained and facillitated right there in parts of Norway then farmers could buy them annually with a paycheck from the government and even have a breeding plan for those dogs that could be like an investment plan as well. Four dogs to a farmer, three female one male, then get free breeding consultations and planning by the same agency that will train and sell them. Those puppies will be free, they're direct investment from the governments own dollars, keeping farmers happy and Nature smiling.
I have to say, wolves don't like dogs, and especially aggressively domineering patrol ones, and its a great plan for the sheep because happily fed dogs won't eat the sheep and will flock with them wherever they go.
"No reliable record for missing sheep Norwegian farmers received predator compensation for 30,500 lost sheep in 2004 - but only 2,760 sheep have been proven killed by wild animals, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports."
When a wolf attacks sheep, it kills nearly half the herd and eats only one and takes another. It wastes the rest of the herd, and that is why the farmers in Norway are so huffy about wolves and their natural relationship with their prey. THese farmers get compensation enough to buy a new herd for those they've lost, and I'm sure they buy Ewes and one or two male sheep to get more kids, but it seems to make bring up another itching idea. Why don't they pay money to the farmers to buy guard dogs for their herds? Those dogs live for at least 15 excellent patrol years, scare the shit out of wolves, and can be bought trained at a professional specialty facitlity for guarddogs.
The cost is almost 1000 dollars, I'd assume, if they could get those dogs trained and facillitated right there in parts of Norway then farmers could buy them annually with a paycheck from the government and even have a breeding plan for those dogs that could be like an investment plan as well. Four dogs to a farmer, three female one male, then get free breeding consultations and planning by the same agency that will train and sell them. Those puppies will be free, they're direct investment from the governments own dollars, keeping farmers happy and Nature smiling.
I have to say, wolves don't like dogs, and especially aggressively domineering patrol ones, and its a great plan for the sheep because happily fed dogs won't eat the sheep and will flock with them wherever they go.
