Thread: Why mixing headers and pointers?

@Moa Hunter Yes it is a interesting can of worms ,while we were in Arnhem Land & the Kimberley's over a couple of Decades ,prices for Live Export would hit peaks where rounding up the Scrubbers & Mickeys would become viable & we did a fair bit of it with the local Aboriginal Land Corps & TO's . This was a good "up close" study in Cattle behavior when they had had next to nothing in human contact & huge areas to wander with no hinderance , more often than not they would display opposite to that & actually form protective barriers for poorly animals or actually physically push slow movers to remain with the "pack" even in full "Flight Or Fight " mode .At times we would have to use the rubber buck shot out of the choppers to push them out ,when they would do this while holding up in a patch of thick scrub , of course the odd bastard on more than one occasion would decide to take you on while you were "treeing" or tying one off " for pick up later ,your only hope being they took their anger out on the "Bull Catcher" & not you or your off sider.

So l really think it is the stock themselves ,learning what stops the dogs harassing them so much ,making their life easier .