I also think we were talking about the 1980's and earlier. I started life in southland and a dog was very much a tool. A shepherd did not have time and values were different. I would not shoot a dog but then as a teenager in the mid 1980's I three times caught the same dog attracting our goats/sheep, we lived inside the city limits so dog control collected it from me only to return it. Cost us 3-4 animals.
I probably would have shot it if we were outside town on the third time. Not the dogs fault but!!
Times and attitudes change.
My Dad can kill stock with a knife, i could not. One hunting buddy would use a knife to finish a wounded animal off my other mate and i would use an extra bullet in the head.
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