[Ag-eq] Penguin guardian dogs

[Jody Ianuzzi]

Hello Jewel,

Would it totally delightful story and what a simple solution to such a bad problem!

JODY 🐺
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."  DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)



> On Sep 13, 2015, at 5:08 AM, Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> There was an item on tonight's Sunday tv programme re how penguins living on Middle Island off the 
> coast of Victoria Australia were as near as 4 birds to being, completely wiped out by red foxes, and 
> how, thanks to the far-sightedness of one man and the dedication of his team of Miremmas, they  have 
> been rescued and now the population has gone from 4 to 150. [before the red foxes came up with the 
> bright idea that it would be an easy swim, at low tide, to get to the island and, once there,  wend 
> their bloodthirsty way through the colony, the population had been 800/1000].
> The dogs spend periods of 1 week to 6 months living on the island, and since they took up station, 
> not a single penguin has been killed by a fox.
> The idea came to Swampy "I can't remember his real mane when his first Maremma, whose name I can 
> remember, Odd Ball was so successful in protecting a flock of 13,000 chooks [chickens] and it dawned 
> upon him that if the field of Odd Ball's care was moved to Middle Island, he would be just as 
> successful with protecting the penguins as he was with the chooks, and so it has proved.
> 
>          Jewel 
> 
> 
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