You have to watch the 13 minute video to get a grasp at this amazing situation they have - this is reality to these folks. For some of us...maybe a reality check!
A glimpse from one side of the dog fence - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Just after dawn a blood-curdling howl tells Glen Coddington that the dingo is close.
Peering from his kitchen window, he spots a large yellow dog gliding in the shadows along the perimeter of the high-wire fence to the north.
Quickly and silently, like a trained assassin, Coddington pokes the barrel of his high-powered rifle through the window and at a range of 150 metres, levelled the crosshairs of his target and fires.
The dingo drops, instantly dead. The veteran hunter has claimed another scalp to go with the half a dozen hanging in his shed.
When we arrive soon after the dingo’s pelt, scalped from nose to tail, he hangs on a wire hook suspended from a tractor cabin.
“You missed the drama,” chides Coddington gently.
“I shot a big dog just before. And what’s worse it was on my side of the fence.”
Wild dogs on the southern side of the fence are a rarity but they exist and this one, evidently lovelorn, had been foolishly and fatally attracted by the presence of Coddington’s large pig dog ***** enclosed within the high tin fence surrounding his modest fibro-cement house.
Coddington is a maintenance man for the Great Barrier Fence, usually called the dog fence.
Its aim is to exclude Australia’s native dog - the feared and destructive enemy of the sheep farmer – from entering the vast rangelands and pastoral zones of New South Wales.
“If they didn’t have this fence I think there wouldn’t be a sheep in New South Wales, so it’s very important,” says Coddington, one of a dozen workers stationed at outposts along the entire length of the 1.8-metre high fence and responsible for its upkeep.
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