BrownDawg
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http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/aug/20/first-wolf-pack-91-years-photographed-northern-cal/
Just in time to thin out some of these Pitbulls!
Just in time to thin out some of these Pitbulls!
Planted by Nature Conservancy.
I can just hear my ranching family groaning now, and I haven't even talked to 'em since the discovery. We use Great Pyrenees and related breeds to protect the sheep but not the cattle. Not sure that even works. We do lose calves to lions and bears as it is. It will be a rough ride, I can tell ya.
Yea, quit hunting them and chasing them with dog's and next thing ya know they'll start taking joggers. Oh wait.Yeah. Earlier in my life, when the population of the lions was smaller from hunting and such, it didn't seem so, but as they have gotten more numerous and bolder, there is more and more evidence that they are talking larger prey. We used to think it was too daunting because cows are protective...I think fawns are more the likeliest favored prey. Sheep and lambs too.
I can just hear my ranching family groaning now, and I haven't even talked to 'em since the discovery. We use Great Pyrenees and related breeds to protect the sheep but not the cattle. Not sure that even works. We do lose calves to lions and bears as it is. It will be a rough ride, I can tell ya.
SSS.:wow
cattle and sheep on the the same ranch? my SO's family on his dad's side are cattle ranchers (plus some large dairy operations for the 'city' side of the family), and they wouldn't be caught dead with 'woolies' on their land. anyone who even brought up the subject of eating lamb got bitch slapped. always gave me the impression you were either one or the other lol.
The sheep/cattle animosity thing is more relative to other Western and Plains states than California and comes from the 19th century before fencing.....