‘I’ve lost 4,500 sheep to thieves on Dartmoor’

11 comments

1. 10/10 compo face

2. Damn welsh raiders!! Don’t they have enough woman?

3. But how did he count them?

4. According to one of my Welsh friends, putting the sheep’s back legs in the front of your Wellington boots before forcing them near the cliff edge makes them back up a little harder.

5. as a local who lives on the edge of dartmoor i have questions

   1) its several hundred square miles of mostly open landscape and very few fences / walls. has he checked everywhere?
   2) sheep die on the moors all the time, walk anywhere and they are skeletons all over the place
   3) how does someone remove 4500 sheep form the moors ? surely, that would be notices, given there arent a whole lot of roads and thats a heck of a lot of sheep
   4) did he even have that many in the first place?

6. They’re right behind him

7. Why do you think Doner meat is so cheap and plentiful?

8. He got fleeced

9. Bit careless mate.

10. If NFU and DEFRA can subsidise then back to Shepherding Sheep with Animal Guard Dogs and a professional Shepherd too plus some technology out on the moors could help reduce incidence or act as deterrent.

    Definitely modern technology and roaming increase and movement of people all contribute to higher rustling incidence.

    The moors used to be a lot more remote.

    I wish these farmers some fortune, the moors are hard enough without crime burden.

11. There are at least a dozen in my garden at the moment… and I’m going to keep them untill the grass I’d down to a manageable level.

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