SHEEP ATTACKED BY DOGS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 10

SHEEP ATTACKED BY DOGS

THIRTY-FOUR EWES DEAP HAWKE'S BAY FARMER'S LOSS (I'BESS ASSOCIATION TEIXGIIAM.) HASTINGS, September 13. Sheep-worrying by dogs has caused 34 out of a flock of 97 ewe hoggets to be killed. The owner, Mr H. J. McKeesick, of Haumoana, estimates his loss at about £BO. The flock was on a small holding which Mr McKeesick farms on the Hastings-Havelock North road. During the night the sheep were badly mauled about the hind-quar-ters, legs, and throats and heads, and' when' the owner visited the scene next morning it was necessary for him to take immediate steps to destroy the worst wounded animals, 75 per cent, of which were affected in a more or less serious degree Thirty-four so far have been killed, and there is every probability that a further six will have to be killed, so serious are their injuries. Mr McKeesick caught one dog, a big Labrador retriever, m the act of attacking a sheep, and he shot it. He believes from the types ot wounds inflicted on the sheep and from the fact that so many were attacked, that more than one dog was responsible.