Evaluating the Effectiveness of Livestock Guardian Dogs: Loss-Prevention, Behavior, Space-Use, and Human Dimensions
Livestock guardian dogs – or “LGDs” – are commonly used by domestic sheep ranchers and reduce the need for killing wild carnivores to protect livestock. LGDs are mostly used in the United States to reduce the number of livestock killed by coyotes, but whether they can prevent killing by larger carni...
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DigitalCommons@USU
2019
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7611 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8744&context=etd |