Dog day afternoon

A nearby farmer called to say he had begun losing newborn calves. He had just sighted a wild dog in the same paddock and, more than likely, it was the culprit.

Additionally, one of his cows had died earlier that morning and, from experience, that would also attract wild dogs and feral pigs. I have been hunting this particular property for about five years and, in that time, I have shot close to 30 marauding dogs.

The property is of 1000 acres, approximately rectangular and shares three boundaries with vast areas of dense tropical jungle national park. The tropical rainforest is a haven for wild dogs and feral pigs that emerge to raid the bordering farmland.

If these feral predators limited themselves to eating just the afterbirth and