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- From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Tibetan Mastiff
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:24:38 -0500
Yes I got the vedic webpage too, I looked up the correct site and it is http://www.tibetanmastiff.org/
The person who posted concerned about using dogs to control deer I don't think understands who runs faster, jumps higher and is better
camouflaged. Stock protection dogs keep predators (to my experience deer don't eat chickens, goats and sheep - but there always is a first time) by scaring them off. Therefore the night barking. Its usually the question, in the coyotes or bobcats mind, of: 'that's a big animal down there barking, am I that hungry that I'm going to shop on those delicious chickens with the big barking animal that I might have to fight, or am I going somewhere else for my meal.' Usually, but not always, they go somewhere else.
Dogs don't work that well on deer because of several reasons: 1. the deer's outstanding ability to run and jump means they can get a whole lot closer to a dog without personal danger 2. lettuce, corn, spinach, etc, tend to be much more spread out at night than chickens, sheep and goats, therefore much harder for a dog to protect.
And as far as the world hunger problem and the amount of food a large dog eats, (this probably belongs on another list - food security) it is a distribution- meaning economic system- problem not, generally, a production problem. Rich people tend to eat well,the hungry tend to be poor. A good stock guard dog diverts more food from those nasty (but hungry) predators and into the human food system, than it eats.
I, personally, try not to think about what they put in dog food and hot dogs and definitely don't want to eat it (there is a pet food factory in Manassas that you don't want to be down wind of. I am sure the 50 pounds of the hog I had butchered last week that didn't end of as pork chops, bacon, ham and sausage went to the pet food factory along with the tobacco spit on the floor.
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Re: Tibetan Mastiff,
Tom Anslow, 02/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Tibetan Mastiff, Alex McGregor, 02/03/2001
- Re: Tibetan Mastiff, Karen Cannon, 02/03/2001
- Re: Tibetan Mastiff, Leigh, 02/03/2001
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