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#1 Post by hubris » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:59 am

Gday Guys, did anyone else read the story in the Herald this morning about the wild dogs at Bombala and Bega. There's a photo of a farmer with two dogs that must each reach over 180cm :shock:

He said they were Great Dane and Ridgeback cross. Pretty impressive.

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#2 Post by erron » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:54 pm

Hmm, any chance of a pic?

Wouldn't want to run into to many of them in the bush, if they hadn't eaten in a while :shock: .

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#3 Post by hubris » Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:02 pm

Erron,

It was on the bottom corner of a two page spread about the ACT kangaroo issue. Part of the dog article - as you've hinted to - was about how because of the drought they've started getting really dangerous and game. One farmer said something about giving up several paddocks because they couldn't control them.

I read it while I was having some morning coffee. If I get my work done in time I'll go down and see if I can take the page, scan it and put it up later.
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#4 Post by tracker » Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:17 pm

No photo of the dogs but here's the link to the story..

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0, ... 21,00.html
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#5 Post by hubris » Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:23 pm

Yeah, I saw that... it's a shortened version of the full one. The full one had a full article on the dogs. I'll post the full one with pics tommorrow.
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#6 Post by erron » Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:59 am

Far out, it's David Bowie's "Year of the Diamond Dogs" scenario :shock:

thanks guys, looking forward to more on this.

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#7 Post by hubris » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:30 am

Here it is...

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#8 Post by hubris » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:30 am

Here it is...

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Let me know if anyone has a HUGE hassle reading it and I'll upload bigger versions.
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#9 Post by tracker » Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:36 am

Crikeys.. those are BIG dogs...

anyone else notice the idiot at the herald has mixed up gundagai and tumut on the map too.. nice to know that the city folks REALLY care about what's going on... hahahahaha..

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#10 Post by erron » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:30 am

God, his wife goes into the bush armed with a box of matches to fight them off with :shock: :roll:

Think I'd pack something with more wallop, :D

Thanks for posting guys. Have heard reports of this kind of thing happening for a while now.

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#11 Post by hubris » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:49 am

Oh... I left off the rest of the article with pictures of her 50 pound spined matches with ribteks...

she has a flicking EKR of 50m :shock: :wink:
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#12 Post by Tuffcity » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:26 pm

Gads! Those things are nearly as big as the cats we have over here.

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#13 Post by erron » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:16 pm

Richard, that's no fair: your cats are lions!

:shock:

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#14 Post by adam » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:22 am

Whos got the urge to go dog hunting. Talk about wallop 190grain ribtek at 5 meters after whistlin them in. canberra trad boys up for a wild dog hunt before I head to perth. would be easy to get access to heavy populated wild dog areas with them been a problem. Adam wolf :wink:
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#15 Post by tracker » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:33 pm

Adam matey.. we WILL be there.. bags first up the tree.. hahahaha...

Went up high last night, forgot my thermals AND my boots... sure enough.. bloody FREEZING and it was snowing on us this morning as we were walking out.. complete swamp frozen over couple of centimetres thick.. . saw a bit of pig sign too.. heard a few howls in the night as well... :shock: :D

If we aren't after dogs next weekend I reckon we could go up and see if we could get a "snap frozen" pig.. :wink:

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#16 Post by jindydiver » Sat Jul 17, 2004 7:04 pm

G'day. This is my first post here.
I thought I would expand on the dog article in the paper posted here. About 6 weeks ago that pic was in the cooma paper and the dog on the left (the farmers right) was reported as being 72kg's. Not the sort of critter I would like to meet some dark and stormy night.
The workers on one station near bombala have been putting out traps and in the last year alone are reported to have caught over 200 dogs. These are not pro doggers but just station hands who until last year had never set a dog trap.
And yes the guys at the paper who drew the map must be on drugs, neither Tumut nor Gundagai are north of Wee Jasper.(At least not as shown on that map)


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#17 Post by erron » Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:20 am

Welcome to Ozbow Mick, and thanks for enlarging on this story. :)

Sure is a worrying development, if it get out of hand.

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#18 Post by hubris » Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:02 pm

Adam mate, you KNOW we'll be up for it. Mick and I got back just as it started to snow on the mountains. We noticed quite a few dog baiting signs around, among other things. I do know of a couple of spots where the dogs are and will DEFINITELY come into camp.

Though like Mick says... I think I'll be picking a spot with a nice tall tree, with a comfortable branch. I'm ordering some more heavier shafts this week to make up so I'll have a total of 24 hunting arrows - compared to your never ending Legolas quiver!

Thanks jindy for that info, I'd like to eventually post my own photo :twisted:
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#19 Post by tracker » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:57 am

Headline at news.com.au ...

Wild Dogs Stalk Fisherman

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0, ... 21,00.html

Weekend after next it will be "Fisherman stalks wild dogs!" :wink: :twisted:

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#20 Post by hubris » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:28 am

we should hang their skins up in front of the canberra times... with the note: "Fisherman stalks wild dogs for free!"

can't wait mate! :twisted:
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#21 Post by adam » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:23 pm

this weekend boyz or before hand.
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#22 Post by hubris » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:35 pm

ok... I assume you'll be off to WA the following?

I think I can push it to this weekend if it's cook with Mick?
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