Nope. The vests for dogs are commercially available, if you went to a supplier for a bulk order, I'm sure you'd get a decent price. For working up and trialing a tech enabled vest (best bet for getting SNH on board to support with funding, as they'd be getting valuable data on attack frequency, patterns and locations, as well as potentially reducing the compensation payments they make). I know the tech, the suppliers and the innovators that I could put you in touch with. The Enactus teams embedded in the universities would be a good go to for working this up from a prototype perspective and the CENSIS team in Scotland would also help you, and if the business case supports coexistence, data gathering on the species, and reduced compensation payments SNH would get on board.
Farming family's anguish as 220 lambs taken by sea eagles
- Thread starter Eildon Hill
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...and you and your colleagues will be demonstrating how easy this will be to do??
Very sad, as ive said before, up to about 50 odd years ago when the food shortage from the war years was fresh in peoples memories and most people in the countryside either had worked, or worked in farming/growing, protecting your (livelyhood) ie, your lifestock or crops was paramount, and people who kept, chickens, or sheep, etc, had a "right" to control anything? that was a danger to that? Now a days, these so called "professionals" who have only had an "academic" education, rather than of a real life, running a business? Dictate the "rules", rules a child can see dont/will not work, "wild" animals, many soon adapt to mans "waste" such as urban foxes, grow fat on raiding bin bags, magpies soon learnt that roads means road kill, badgers have soon learnt, i could go on and on? Just wait to beavers get going and the damage, expense etc that they will bring? Crows, rooks, seagulls all have learnt to live feed from mans waste?