Retreat Livestock Guardians (Dogs, etc...)
 

Retreat Livestock Guardians, by TD
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Livestock Guardians
When the grid goes down and predation goes up, from animals (wild and feral/formally domesticated) and other people will be a very large problem. The television show Jericho showed some of the problems with diminished game and a lack of dogs and cats.

Right now a lot of city dwellers complain about the population of deer, raccoon, opossum, coyote and others. In the city they are a problem right now. If something drastic were to happen it would decimate those populations, removing most outside food sources for cities. Most people, who do not hunt for food, hunt for trophies and they do take a lot of natural predators. What happens when this stops?

Out in the country you will see an increase in natural and formally domestic [feral] predators, therefore depleting the amount of game that can be found. In the city it will be far worse, dogs when they go feral run in packs and will eat almost anything, they will attack humans. Even now in the country feral dogs prey on livestock, taking calves, colts and lambs, larger packs will start taking larger (full grown) animals as they need. How can this be stopped or slowed?

Then the biggest worry, other people. There are people now who, though it isn�t for food, do steal livestock. Horse meat when at prime prices drives the theft of horses to unimaginable extents, not tomorrow, but now. There is a lot of that still happening and with tattoos or micro chipping the slaughter houses don�t have the resources to check as thoroughly as they could. Is there a deterrent? What happens when the grid goes down and people are stealing to eat or for their own gains?...............

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