Detecting with wild dogs

Axtyr wrote:I hope you got that on video, hilarious, but I expect not at the time.

Regards Axtyr.

G’day Axtyr,

Wish I had a video of it I recon it would have won the funniest home video, as there was a bit more to the story.



G’day Pete,

Not sure if he had eggs or youngens as he came out of nowhere grunting and throwing out his chest. I had a dog with me which beat me to the vehicle jumped in on Jen’s side then managed to lock my door. You can see how this story goes. It wasn’t funny at the time, but I laugh about it now.

Cheers.

Mike.

Nightjar wrote:Next thing emus will be stalking us, echidnas setting traps and crows picking our eyes out.
Get out of the rat race and see the real world without the myths.

Is that Without the myths or without the mythez

So just finished up a week contract trapping with a total of 8 dogs one happy farmer and some more detecting ground for me a win win all round

. A little bit of yellow and a couple of dogs good weekend

Wildlife traps
The fur industry also employs wildlife traps to catch millions of wild animals. Traps, including steel-jaw leghold traps, body-gripping traps, underwater traps and wire neck snares, are cruel devices that inflict great and prolonged pain as they are either not designed to kill or fail to do so.

Wildlife traps are not selective; they don't discriminate between animal species. For every 'wanted' animal, another one to four so called 'trash' animals such as deer or birds, endangered animals and even domestic dogs and cats get trapped and often die an agonising pointless death.4

The most widely used trap is the leghold trap which consists of two spring-loaded jaws that slam onto the limb of an animal once they step on it. The jaws cut into the flesh, often down to the bone, leaving the animal to languish in pain for hours or even days until they die of their injuries or get killed by the hunter. Some animals gnaw off the trapped limb to free themselves, but have little chance to survive in the wild. Steel-Jaw leghold traps are banned in many countries, but still widely used to trap fur animals in the US, Canada and Russia. Australia allows the use of the steel-jaw leghold trap primarily for 'pest' control of wild dogs and dingos in grazing zones; fur is rarely sourced from Australia.

On one hand the dingo is declared to be a protected species in Australia but on the other hand it is deemed to be a wild dog thus enabling it to be killed on private or grazing land....Bit of a joke really and not the ideal method of protecting a threatened species.

During a mouse plague in the late '40s, our cat that would regularly drag a rabbit back to feed her kittens, was so confused by the hoard of mice that she wouldn't touch them.

. Gone are the days of sharp edges on traps mate note the rounded steel also the 6mm gap that allows the blood to still flow, this traps are as you said LEG HOLD not cut your leg off traps designed for the well-being of trapped animals until they are humanly delt with ( shot) 1 time just in case you are wondering about bi catch the foot pan that the dog stands is set to only fire once 2+kg is applied so smaller animals such as small Roos and other mammals don’t get caught they are made with all this in mind a mate of mine that runs cattle has had his working dog stand in one and continued on with out a drama once freed

Fair enough reply mate.
I guess I just don't like the dingo being classified as a mongrel breed wild dog. Pure breed dingoes are becoming scarce now but prior to that they had become a well balanced part of the biodiversity of this country over the past 7000 years or so. Be a mistake to wipe them out just because they like to munch on a sheep etc now and again

All good mate I understand everything has it’s place and it would be a shame to see the pure breeds wiped out as we are trying to manage pests not natives

The wool industry in Australia is not doing so well as in the past when I was a young Roustabout. (My first job).
China has more merino's and a larger wool industry than us now....Thanks to some nitwit selling a few merino's to them.
   If I was living out in the bush and scratching for food and I spotted a fat lamb I reckon i might take a bite or two out of it just like a dingo needs to.
I would bung that Jolly Jumbuck right into my tucker bag.

https://undark.org/2019/08/12/identity-crisis-australian-dingo/