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Attack plan outIinedto farmers
One sure way to tell a dog
from a coyote is to look at a
sheep.
That was themessage given
Monday by the ministry of nat-
ural resources to a group of
about 40 Huron Bruce and Perth
County township livestock eval-
uators.
Roy Bellinger, game and fish
enforcement co-ordinator for the
ministry's Wingham district
office which covers parts of the
three counties, said coyotes and
Bayfield
news
Best wishes for a speedy rec-
overy to Mrs. Pat Altman who
is confined to Clinton Public
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Haw,
of Preston and Mrs. Dave Haw-
thorne and baby of Shelbourne,
visited Thursday with Mr. and
Mrs. Delbert Haw.
Mr. Doug Manson of Willow -
dale was a registered guest at
the Albion Hote 1 for the week-
end.
Mr. Jack Tillman is renovat-
ing his cottage on Delevan St,
and we understand that the
Tillman's plan to move here
permanently. A warm welcome
awaits them.
Mrs. Don McLeod, of Stoney
Creek is spending this week with
her mother, Mrs. E.B. Robinson
at the Albion Hotel,
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dogs differ in their attack plan
on livestock.
Dogs, he noted, prefer to
assault sheep from the rear,
while coyotes and wolves attack
at the neck.
To underline his point, Mr.
Bellinger showed slides of sheep
which had been attacked by both
types of animals.
Determining whether sheep
and other livestock have been
attacked by dog or coyote is
crucial in determining how
farmers can be compensated for
their loss, he said,
Under provincial legislation
effective March 1, he said,
township evaluators are required
to decide whether dogs or coy-
otes are responsible.
If a dog killed the livestock,
he said, the farmer is compen-
sated from township revenues
derived from dog taxes,
If a coyote was responsible,
the farmer is repaid under the
Wolf Damage to Livestock
Compensation Act administered
by the ministry of agriculture
and food, he said.
In both cases, the farmer is
paid the replacement cost of the,
livestock up to maximum $100
in the case of sheep.
Mr. Bellinger said farmers in
the past were required to cont-
act the ministry of natural
resources if they suspected
coyotes were involved.
In the ministry's Wingham
area, he said, seven attacks on
sheep were recorded in 1974.
This figure, he added, has been
fairly constant in recent years
and does not reflect the great
increases in coyote attacks re-
corded in the Owen Sound area.
There are no wolves in the
Wingham district area, he said.
He estimated that less than
two per cent of all recorded
coyote or wolf attacks on live-
stock involved cattle,
"And I've never seen a goose,
chicken or turkey that's been
attacked, " he said. "Although
that's probably because predator;
THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 1976
can carry them away with them,
Under provincial law, Mr.
Bellinger said, farmers are
entitled to kill roaming dogs
found in,areas where livestock
is kept,
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