Livestock Guardian Dogs: An Illustrated Celebration

Author:   Cat Urbigkit
Publisher:   Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN:  

9781510774926


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 June 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Learn about the brave dogs who help guard livestock around the world! Wolf populations in the Rocky Mountains have reached recovery goals due in large part to an environmentally friendly method of predator control now in use on western ranches: livestock protection dogs (also called livestock guardian dogs). Although these dogs have been used around the world for thousands of years in primitive systems of livestock production, it's only in the past four decades that they have been put to work in America in a systematic manner. Guardian dogs were imported to the United States, and their use has allowed the expansion of predator populations into areas where the animals were previously subject to lethal control. The use of guardian dogs is typical wherever livestock may encounter predators-from fox and coyotes, to wolves and grizzly bears. In Livestock Guardian Dogs, Cat Urbigkit tracks her journeys from a Wyoming sheep ranch to learn about working livestock protection dogs around the globe. Using historic accounts, published research, personal interviews on four continents, and her own experience on western rangelands, she provides the reader an intimate look into the everyday lives of working livestock protection dogs. Previously published as Brave and Loyaland now available for the first time in paperback,Livestock Guardian Dogsincludes details on raising successful guardians, their behaviors, a discussion of breeds and historic use, an assessment of numbers for various predator challenges, the adoption and spread of programs to place guardians on American farms and ranches, problems and benefits associated with guardian dogs, predator ploys, and matching the dog to the predator challenge. Urbigkit's work provides the best information on working livestock guardian dogs around the globe, accompanied by more than one hundred beautiful color photos.

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Author:   Cat Urbigkit
Publisher:   Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint:   Skyhorse Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9781510774926


ISBN 10:   1510774920
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 June 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Cat Urbigkit is an award-winning author and photographer with three adult nonfiction titles and seven nonfiction photo essays for children in print. A former reporter and newspaper owner, she is editor and co-owner of The Shepherd magazine, a national sheep and goat industry publication. She has raised and worked with livestock guardian dogs in large carnivore country for decades, and she has coauthored several papers about their use. She resides in Pinedale, Wyoming.

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