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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: waterbuffalofarmer on November 14, 2018, 04:25:50 pm

Title: Amazing animals
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on November 14, 2018, 04:25:50 pm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sheepdogs-maremma-wildfire-save-sheep-british-columbia-canada-a7921396.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sheepdogs-maremma-wildfire-save-sheep-british-columbia-canada-a7921396.html)

Thought I would share this :) hope it's ok to post in here

Title: Re: Amazing animals
Post by: Fleecewife on November 14, 2018, 04:48:02 pm

They are wonderful dogs.  We had a guardian dog when we first moved to our smallholding.  She never had to do something as heroic as those two, but she was wonderful, always aware of what was going on as far as the eye could see and the ears could hear.


I think guardian dogs would be a very worthwhile outlay for sheep farmers in the Highlands and Islands who worry about giant birds of prey taking their lambs.  A couple of guardians would surely keep them safe.