Livestock guardian dogs protect livestock including sheep, goats and cattle from predators such as bears, wolves and even robbers. Rather than move their animals around, like a herding breed would, ...

When wolves began killing cattle and sheep on the Farrell ranch in Parshall, the owners, Nellie and Conway Farrell, tried nonlethal tools to keep the predators away. Fox lights flashed over their ...

Great Pyrenees Mr. Milchick is a livestock guardian dog at We Deux Farm and takes his job very seriously. He keeps a close ...

Livestock guardian dogs are rockstars in the canine world, even if most people never see them perform live. These unique animals are so important to the ranching industry that the Texas A&M AgriLife ...

The absence of a dedicated guardian increases the likelihood of losses, which can be particularly devastating for small ...

Across rural America, historic livestock guardian dogs are returning to fields, orchards, and homesteads. Valued for their ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the separation of dogs from wolves is a process that began tens of thousands of years ago and remains incomplete because wolves and dogs continue to hybridize ...

Livestock guardian dogs protect the lives of sheep, goats, poultry and other livestock from predators in the area, and reduce financial losses that come with losing livestock. They save the lives of ...