Sunday, Feb 29, 2004 at 23:19
Wish we knew what it was and we'd use it. They are hard to shoot, impossible to do so when in large numbers and spread over large areas. Visitors dogs are a concern but we also have lost 2 pups ( together ) to baits. Be aware that crows can eat the baits and a while later and some distance away decide they are no good and bring them back up, so sometimes baits get to where we didn't put them.
When you have had to shoot 10 calves in one morning as they had holes eaten out of them but were not dead, because the
dingo mums were teaching the pups to hunt, you no longer feel quite so much sympathy. Wouldn't mind so much if they just killed and ate one and that was it untill they were hungry again. At the right time of the year they are into the calves in large numbers every night.
The signs are a legal requirement and we don't bait a 10 km radidus of the
homestead, once 1080 gets decent rain on it's no longer a worry so if travel is in the North after the wet and before new baits are laid you should be ok but as someone else said the safest way is to keep them on a lead.
I don't know of any NP up this way that breaks the CALM rule and allows dogs ( or cats) to enter.
cheers, AnneDrysdale River Station
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