SAVAGE DOGS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 August 1928, Page 5

SAVAGE DOGS

SHEEP KILLED AND' MA.IMBD. SYDNEY, August 8. It is strange, but none the less true, that when the domestic dog' acquires the killing instinct, ho is as bad, if not Iwonse, than the dingo. In such cases the dogs seem to bo prompted by one instinct only —a savage determination to kill and maim. These killings are usually the work of dogs impelled by the primitive instinct of the chase and not by hunger. As a rule they do not touch the ilesh of their victims, carry out the slaughter with fiendish energy and thoroughness. And having completed the job they sneak away! from the scene of their debauchery' and comport themselves like prize poodles at home till the urge for another killing is upon them. In most instances the killers, boo, work in pains. A mob of 600 full-woolled merino ; wethers en route bo; Gilmore from Erongilly and owned by Allen Wilson, were savagely attacked by dogs. Over 200 were found dead this morning, and others, bitten and shockingly mutilated. sheep destroyed were worth over £6OO- - skinning some of the car-, cases this morning the drovers noticed the dogs sneaking up to the rest of the mob. These prowlers were followed to a settlers place, and after identification were destroyed.