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  • From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: deer, predators and dogs
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:21:28 -0500


We have a bobcat problem. At night I can hear her out there yowling. Last summer she had a litter and she decided that our farm was the local meat market. The guineas that roosted in the peach tree dropped in population one at a time. When the chickens didn't get locked up at night, they got eaten. My neighbor (about half a mile away) complained yesterday that all of his geese were gone.

So, I'm looking for a good dog. I had a Komondor, and never lost an animal from predators, but several years ago he got bit on the nose by a copperhead and quickly died.

I've been look for a replacement but can't find one except from the show dog type of breeders (which I don't trust to know a working dog from a barbie doll).

I'm also open to another breed, does anyone have a favorite livestock guard dog and know of anyone that breeds them. I'm in Northern Virginia.

Great Pyrenees are occasionally advertised around here but I'm suspicious of a dog the books say roams.




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