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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2018
Imported guard dogs deployed as part of wolf-sheep study
Gathered as
puppies in
Europe
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE — Federal scien-
tists are trying to decide if it’s
time to let the big dogs out.
Nearly 120 dogs from
three large breeds perfected
over centuries in Europe and
Asia to be gentle around sheep
and children but vicious when
confronting wolves recently
underwent a study to see how
they’d react to their old neme-
sis on a new continent.
The dogs were gathered
as puppies in Portugal, Bul-
garia and Turkey and sent to
the American West, where
they spent four years guarding
sheep.
“When we were first look-
ing at doing this, a lot of peo-
ple wanted to know: What dog
do I use in dealing with wolves
and grizzly bears?” said Julie
Young, a Utah-based research
biologist with the U.S. Depart-
Julie Young/U.S. Department of Agriculture
A Kangal dog greets Ben Hofer of the Hutterite Rockport
Colony near Pendroy, Mont., in 2013.
ment of Agriculture’s National
Wildlife Research Center.
The department looked to
areas where dog breeds devel-
oped to guard sheep against
wolves and brown bears.
Then scientists supplied Cao
de Gado Transmontanos, a
large though lean and agile
dog developed in a mountain-
ous region of Portugal; Karak-
achans, developed by nomadic
sheepherders in a mountainous
area of Bulgaria; and Kangals,
another powerful breed with
an instinct for guarding, this
one originating in Turkey.
Dogs from all three breeds
can weigh up to 140 pounds,
about the size of a wolf. The
dogs were sent to guard 65 herds
in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Washington state and Oregon.
Scientists are still analyz-
ing information from notes,
remote cameras and GPS col-
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The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County is search-
ing for applicants to fill a
vacancy on the Planning
Commission.
The term runs through
June 2020.
The commission usually
meets the second Tuesday
of every month at 10 a.m. It
makes decisions on land use
issues and recommendations
Clatsop Community Col-
lege is celebrating Pi day Sat-
urday in the Patriot Hall gym.
The event, from 1:59 to 6
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we need the tools to deal with
them and the support.”
Ranchers can call the Agri-
culture Department’s Wild-
life Services to kill wolves
that attack livestock. Environ-
mentalists, though, have been
working to reduce the need for
that and see guard dogs as one
solution.
“Most of the year, the
livestock guardian dogs are
an excellent deterrent,” said
Suzanne Stone of Defenders of
Wildlife, noting the exception
is in the spring when wolves
are guarding dens with pups.
The imported guard dogs
cost about $500 apiece, includ-
ing transportation to the U.S.,
Young said, and nearly all
were just a few months old
when they arrived.
She said the Karakachans
tended to be more vigilant, the
Kangals inclined to investigate,
and the Cao de Gado Trans-
montanos better at assessing
threats. Ultimately, she said,
sheep producers might ben-
efit from a mix of dogs that
includes some that stick near
the sheep and others that patrol
the perimeter.
Planning Commission looks to fill vacancy
The Daily Astorian
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sheep bands, dogs and herd-
ers arrived, but their absence
emboldened smaller predators
such as coyotes.
Not all dogs in the study
succeeded. Jill Swannack,
president of the Washing-
ton State Sheep Producers, is
a veterinarian who also has a
ranch with about 800 sheep on
private land in eastern Wash-
ington state. She received
three Karakachans.
“When we came home,
they preferred to be home with
us,” she said. “They really
didn’t bond to the sheep.”
She also said the dogs were
only about 70 or 80 pounds.
One went to a young family
with sheep near their house,
and now that dog plays with
the children and has success-
fully guarded those sheep
against coyotes.
The dogs that work best at
her ranch are Anatolian Shep-
herds, though wolves killed
one in 2014.
Wolves are a “phenome-
nal predator,” Swannack said.
“I would be happy if we didn’t
have them, but I’m also a real-
ist, and we do have them. So
to the Board of Commission-
ers. Jacque Presley, who was
appointed to the commission
in October, stepped down
recently to focus more time
on Angels for Sara Sanctuary
— her nonprofit dog rescue
organization.
Applicants must reside
in rural areas, as the com-
mission has reached its legal
limit of representatives from
cities.
The deadline to apply is
March 23 at 4 p.m. County
commissioners will make the
appointment.
Additional
information
can be found by contact-
ing Planning Manager Will
Caplinger at 503-325-8611 or
wcaplinger@co.clatsop.or.us.
Forms are available from the
County Manager’s office at
800 Exchange St., Suite 410,
or at www.co.clatsop.or.us.
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lars, Young said, with four or
five scientific papers expected
in the next year. But over-
all, she said, the dogs did well
keeping away wolves and bet-
ter than traditional guard dogs
at deterring coyotes.
One dog died during the
study. It was hit by a vehicle as
sheep crossed a road.
For decades, most U.S.
sheep producers have used
large white dogs such as
Great Pyrenees, Akbash or
Maremma Sheepdogs. Light
brown Anatolian Shepherds
are also used.
But the reintroduction of
wolves in the American West
in the 1990s has led to ques-
tions about whether those
breeds are up to the task. Since
wolves returned to Idaho in
1995, the Agriculture Depart-
ment’s Wildlife Services says,
wolves have killed 50 guard
dogs through the end of last
year and injured nearly 40 oth-
ers in the state. Federal offi-
cials in 2017 killed 56 wolves
in Idaho due to attacks on
livestock.
Young said the study
found wolves left areas when
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p.m., is loosely timed around
the first eight digits of the
mathematical constant and
celebrates Albert Einstein’s
birthday.
The college’s house band,
the Pi’d Pipers, will open
the event, which includes
math games, face painting,
prizes and pie sales to support
the local Phi Theta Kappa
chapter.
way 101 and charged with
DUII, reckless driving and
recklessly endangering another
person. An officer allegedly
spotted the car traveling 90
mph at a curve. Witnesses had
reported earlier that a beer can
had been thrown and one of the
occupants had vomited out the
window. Palek’s blood alcohol
content was 0.12 percent.
• At 12:52 a.m. Saturday,
Tara Massey, 32, of Warren-
ton, was arrested by Warrenton
police on the 850 block of War-
renton Drive and charged with
DUII and resisting arrest. Her
blood alcohol content was 0.18
percent.
• At 10:21 p.m. Friday,
Cody Gedenberg, 24, of Sea-
side, was arrested by Seaside
police on the 1700 block of
Roosevelt Drive and charged
with DUII. His blood alcohol
content was 0.18 percent.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 1:24 a.m. Sunday,
Christian Ace Nelson, 41, of
Marysville, Washington, was
arrested by the Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Office on Lief Erik-
son Drive near Tongue Point
and charged with driving under
the influence of intoxicants.
• At 6:20 p.m. Saturday,
Ryan Clayton Palek, 19, of
Astoria, was arrested by Ore-
gon State Police on U.S. High-
DEATH
March 12, 2018
FLUES, Florence M., 85, of Astoria, died in Forest Grove. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary of
Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
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