A group of farmers in the Myshall and Kildavin area on the border between Carlow and Wexford are searching for a large dog which has been spotted worrying their sheep. At least four farmers have had sheep killed or run by the dog.
The death of six sheep on John Kidd’s farm was reported to Ballon Garda station on 15 March. John Bayley says his sheep were chased into a watercourse and that another neighbour had 10 ewes killed and more put down due to their injuries. “No progress has been made. A crowd of us went out on Sunday night in the woods, but we couldn’t trace the dog,” Bayley told the Irish Farmers Journal.
They say the dog has been on the run for the last three weeks. “It’s the same dog all the time because we’ve tracked him,” said John Kidd.
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A group of farmers in the Myshall and Kildavin area on the border between Carlow and Wexford are searching for a large dog which has been spotted worrying their sheep. At least four farmers have had sheep killed or run by the dog.
The death of six sheep on John Kidd’s farm was reported to Ballon Garda station on 15 March. John Bayley says his sheep were chased into a watercourse and that another neighbour had 10 ewes killed and more put down due to their injuries. “No progress has been made. A crowd of us went out on Sunday night in the woods, but we couldn’t trace the dog,” Bayley told the Irish Farmers Journal.
They say the dog has been on the run for the last three weeks. “It’s the same dog all the time because we’ve tracked him,” said John Kidd.
In a separate dog worrying incident, 40 sheep were killed on a Roscommon farm last
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