October 13, 2025 • 9 mins
Disaster cites further frustration around stray dogs on farms.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
A way to close Burns Station on the edges of
Lake Rocket Tippy Grant Disaster. McMaster joins us once again
thanks to the team at Abby Rural Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Weather conditions in the basin. You're not having to water
ski around the farm or anything ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I wouldn't say the craps hard and fast, but thirty
five miles of rain since we spoke last week. Snow
on Saturday or Sunday, whatever day it was down quite
halfway down the mountains around the lake. It sort of
went the next day. Hard frost this morning. But yeah,
it's a barmie seven degrees today that turns out with
(00:50):
bit of cool brie. So yeah, not as much rain
as we've had, but things are still pretty damned. Although
things are looking quite good as in the place is
looking reasonably green. That there's a green tins coming through
the hill and on the flats, but there's not a
lot of well, there is a lot of grass, but
as Frank Thompson would have said, it's not very high.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Just frustration. They're getting frost, heavy frost this time of you.
We have one last week here and good, but that
was only one.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, well that's we've got a couple. Well that's the
only one we've had this week for that. But it's
you know, it's just one of those things that you know,
we've got an ut here I planted about fifteen years ago,
and you know, blossoms out there now, but I haven't
that look at this morning where they'll probably to tailor
a few apricots and what have you. We never seem
to get much fruit off it because we get these
(01:41):
late bloody frosts and yeah, way go. So no, not easy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You haven't got the spuds in yet.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I've got them in the cupboard and they'll be staying
there for a while. So yeah, I can't actually give
you the ground temperature because I was doing a scientific
experiment the other night up to one of my neighbors
places he's out from Australia and where we're having a
couple of ales, and he'd just sold a little bit
of lawn, so I went and got my soil test
(02:12):
are out and he also had two that he uses
for cooking chops and turkeys or whatever. So we're doing
an experiment there to see if there's any difference and
to be fair, the little one you get from the
supermarket is just as good as the one I got
from balance. So that was all very good. But in
the meantime on the way home, I've lost it somewhere,
So I can't give you a soil team today. But
his lawn the other night with thirteen degrees, well that's
(02:34):
what we thought it it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So what you were saying is get your prmometer from
after doing the mutton guard and stick it in the lawn.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It'll be as.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Accurate, exactly, exactly as as give a time to turn
call down a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah you know on eighty four degrees coming through?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Do you you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Know lambing obviously just getting underway.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, lambing is getting underway now with sort of gears
and I'm just sneaking around the place at the moment.
It's just with the rain of heaters. But if the
flat paddocks out by a moat blake have got you know,
tussocks on them, and it's a great, great area for
you to get cast. And even though these pir and
does are easy care, I've got I've just picked up
a couple this morning from my advantage point, So yeah,
(03:15):
I know the lambs are starting to pop out now
and the cars are going. Carve is going all right,
and yeah, there's only one of the heip has left
over the whole block to do. So it's certainly the
grass is over the airtown. It's a lot better on the
on the Hogit block than it is here for for
ovious reasons. It's not getting as much rain. And you
know we're on a bit of rotation over there, so
(03:36):
they all and all, it's if we just get this.
Since we spoke last week, there's been you know, there's
been quite a change around and what grass we do have,
So a couple of paddocks by the wall shed. I'm
just kind of got some cows and calves and now
I've got them sort of ready to go across. It's
sisting into that stage where in a couple of paddocks
not so many us in it. So yeah, well if
(03:57):
that continues, it's all well and good. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A do a while ago ground about loose dogs being
on the prow unfortunately attacking news, and it seems as
though this continued in your nick of the woods.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah you want a production time. Everything's going to be
all right. I hope it will be. But I've got
a bad feeling it's not so. Yeah, we spoke last time. Well,
you know back in April where those two das got
tidied up, about fifteen of them, and before that in
February there was nine news and here around now the
morning there's another sixteen ewes just slaughtered. So's it's mental
(04:32):
health week, I tell you what a bloody near needed.
I think it's a hell of a thing to have.
You know, we have lots of things to test you
and farming that's all to do with the weather, isn't it.
In markets and the sort of things that are out
of our control, and you know you'd think dog a
dog attack is you know once twice, third time it's
not lucky, and just not to be able to nail
(04:54):
them as pretty difficult. So it's one thing finding those
news and then you've got to spend the rest of
the morning picking them up and then cutting a few
throats that these dogs has just been playing with and
that's what they do. So anyway, when we had that
previous and these are the same dogs, we know where
they're coming from, we know when they're off, but just
(05:15):
haven't been able to line them up becau it's pretty
big area and it's at different all different times of
jin at night. So last time, back in April, when
the when the animal control came out, they took come
they said, oh, we'll get some DNA kits ordered for
if this happens again. And I said, well, it's not
if it happened, it's when it's happened, when it happens,
(05:36):
So yeah, best you get them, because I said, you know,
January now, and I said, it'll keep contending as long
as those dogs get out. So anyway, sure enough, I
gave them ring on whatever morning it was, and they
bought the kits out. And however we had been a
bit of rain, which isn't good. But anyway, got the
you know, took samples and they'll send away. But I
(05:58):
spoke to carry that night, who who runs the operation,
and she said, well, unfortunately, she said, the way the
law is, we can't actually because we haven't seen those dogs.
You know, you know, we know they're doing it, we
know they are off. Because we can't haven't seen those dogs,
and your probably go back and these we haven't got
the power to go on to the DNA tests. So
I say, well that's about as much use as an
Asclona motibike, isn't it. But again it's just one of
(06:21):
those things that's every you read about it in the
in the in the papers, and you said on the
news the number of dog attacks on well sheep but
mainly mainly people are you know, in the cities and
while wherever it's people have no there's no accountability for
those people. And you know there's dogs that the pound
have gotten and you know they know they've gotten the child,
(06:42):
but they can't put them down because these people go
to court so and you know it before the court,
so there's no accountability. It's the old thing, you know,
the bloody the good guys are doing the best and
you know there's no backup. So and I think as
as we know that as the town moves into the
country in queenstown's a plassic example of that. You know,
(07:03):
that's more prevalent. But the manners of these dogs or
just jet dogs in general with people. You know you
read about them going to dog parks and the dogs
having fights and you out left them off leads and
you know it just starts at the training that most
of the people have got dogs shouldn't bloody have them
and you know, you go to a dog trial and
there's a you know in New Zealand there's a thousand dogs.
(07:25):
There's never a fight and it's good they've broken and well,
I'm manned. I imagine the same at Crufts and those
agility shows. You know, those people are you know, they
know what they're dogs when they train them. So it's
bloody and excusable, but that's the way it is, and
that's what we're you know, that's what we're finding against
at the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And these dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
As far as micro shipping everything else, that's probably not
on the agenda for the owners either, unfortunately. No.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And you know I did speak to the owner this
time and discussed it and what have you, and you
know I offered a couple of solutions and that, you
know with regarding putting them down and said I pay
for it and actually pay him for being able to
do have that privilege. But he's de climbed that. But
(08:11):
you know knows they're doing it. And you know I've
seen the on the on the WhatsApp thing will send
out to all those people up there. You know, he's
seen what they've done. But yeah, not do anything about
it so that you know, frustrading and and crawel and
you know reason and expensive. It's probably about fifteen grand
so far. So it's like feeding strawberries to a peg,
(08:34):
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's all about accountability. Grant always appreciate your time. He's
hoping you get a decent outcome.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh well, yes, you nevern know, but I'm not hopeful.
But you know, to all those people out there that
may be listening that have got dogs, for christ, they
keep them under control, know where they are, and you
know we wouldn't have the situation. And the other thing is,
you know these dogs are a different breed and they
once I've got the taste of that, as I said
to the guy that owns them, they will stop until
(09:01):
you know they're eighty. So's to thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Grab a master at kloseper In Station with a message
as well they're regarding dogs.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Thanks of course. Abby Rural.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We catch up the ground every week. Daryl Moyles is
up next with Saturn Den's stock Feed
A way to close Burns Station on the edges of
Lake Rocket Tippy Grant Disaster. McMaster joins us once again
thanks to the team at Abby Rural Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Weather conditions in the basin. You're not having to water
ski around the farm or anything ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I wouldn't say the craps hard and fast, but thirty
five miles of rain since we spoke last week. Snow
on Saturday or Sunday, whatever day it was down quite
halfway down the mountains around the lake. It sort of
went the next day. Hard frost this morning. But yeah,
it's a barmie seven degrees today that turns out with
(00:50):
bit of cool brie. So yeah, not as much rain
as we've had, but things are still pretty damned. Although
things are looking quite good as in the place is
looking reasonably green. That there's a green tins coming through
the hill and on the flats, but there's not a
lot of well, there is a lot of grass, but
as Frank Thompson would have said, it's not very high.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Just frustration. They're getting frost, heavy frost this time of you.
We have one last week here and good, but that
was only one.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, well that's we've got a couple. Well that's the
only one we've had this week for that. But it's
you know, it's just one of those things that you know,
we've got an ut here I planted about fifteen years ago,
and you know, blossoms out there now, but I haven't
that look at this morning where they'll probably to tailor
a few apricots and what have you. We never seem
to get much fruit off it because we get these
(01:41):
late bloody frosts and yeah, way go. So no, not easy.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You haven't got the spuds in yet.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I've got them in the cupboard and they'll be staying
there for a while. So yeah, I can't actually give
you the ground temperature because I was doing a scientific
experiment the other night up to one of my neighbors
places he's out from Australia and where we're having a
couple of ales, and he'd just sold a little bit
of lawn, so I went and got my soil test
(02:12):
are out and he also had two that he uses
for cooking chops and turkeys or whatever. So we're doing
an experiment there to see if there's any difference and
to be fair, the little one you get from the
supermarket is just as good as the one I got
from balance. So that was all very good. But in
the meantime on the way home, I've lost it somewhere,
So I can't give you a soil team today. But
his lawn the other night with thirteen degrees, well that's
(02:34):
what we thought it it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So what you were saying is get your prmometer from
after doing the mutton guard and stick it in the lawn.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It'll be as.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Accurate, exactly, exactly as as give a time to turn
call down a bit.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah you know on eighty four degrees coming through?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Do you you.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Know lambing obviously just getting underway.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, lambing is getting underway now with sort of gears
and I'm just sneaking around the place at the moment.
It's just with the rain of heaters. But if the
flat paddocks out by a moat blake have got you know,
tussocks on them, and it's a great, great area for
you to get cast. And even though these pir and
does are easy care, I've got I've just picked up
a couple this morning from my advantage point, So yeah,
(03:15):
I know the lambs are starting to pop out now
and the cars are going. Carve is going all right,
and yeah, there's only one of the heip has left
over the whole block to do. So it's certainly the
grass is over the airtown. It's a lot better on the
on the Hogit block than it is here for for
ovious reasons. It's not getting as much rain. And you
know we're on a bit of rotation over there, so
(03:36):
they all and all, it's if we just get this.
Since we spoke last week, there's been you know, there's
been quite a change around and what grass we do have,
So a couple of paddocks by the wall shed. I'm
just kind of got some cows and calves and now
I've got them sort of ready to go across. It's
sisting into that stage where in a couple of paddocks
not so many us in it. So yeah, well if
(03:57):
that continues, it's all well and good. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A do a while ago ground about loose dogs being
on the prow unfortunately attacking news, and it seems as
though this continued in your nick of the woods.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah you want a production time. Everything's going to be
all right. I hope it will be. But I've got
a bad feeling it's not so. Yeah, we spoke last time. Well,
you know back in April where those two das got
tidied up, about fifteen of them, and before that in
February there was nine news and here around now the
morning there's another sixteen ewes just slaughtered. So's it's mental
(04:32):
health week, I tell you what a bloody near needed.
I think it's a hell of a thing to have.
You know, we have lots of things to test you
and farming that's all to do with the weather, isn't it.
In markets and the sort of things that are out
of our control, and you know you'd think dog a
dog attack is you know once twice, third time it's
not lucky, and just not to be able to nail
(04:54):
them as pretty difficult. So it's one thing finding those
news and then you've got to spend the rest of
the morning picking them up and then cutting a few
throats that these dogs has just been playing with and
that's what they do. So anyway, when we had that
previous and these are the same dogs, we know where
they're coming from, we know when they're off, but just
(05:15):
haven't been able to line them up becau it's pretty
big area and it's at different all different times of
jin at night. So last time, back in April, when
the when the animal control came out, they took come
they said, oh, we'll get some DNA kits ordered for
if this happens again. And I said, well, it's not
if it happened, it's when it's happened, when it happens,
(05:36):
So yeah, best you get them, because I said, you know,
January now, and I said, it'll keep contending as long
as those dogs get out. So anyway, sure enough, I
gave them ring on whatever morning it was, and they
bought the kits out. And however we had been a
bit of rain, which isn't good. But anyway, got the
you know, took samples and they'll send away. But I
(05:58):
spoke to carry that night, who who runs the operation,
and she said, well, unfortunately, she said, the way the
law is, we can't actually because we haven't seen those dogs.
You know, you know, we know they're doing it, we
know they are off. Because we can't haven't seen those dogs,
and your probably go back and these we haven't got
the power to go on to the DNA tests. So
I say, well that's about as much use as an
Asclona motibike, isn't it. But again it's just one of
(06:21):
those things that's every you read about it in the
in the in the papers, and you said on the
news the number of dog attacks on well sheep but
mainly mainly people are you know, in the cities and
while wherever it's people have no there's no accountability for
those people. And you know there's dogs that the pound
have gotten and you know they know they've gotten the child,
(06:42):
but they can't put them down because these people go
to court so and you know it before the court,
so there's no accountability. It's the old thing, you know,
the bloody the good guys are doing the best and
you know there's no backup. So and I think as
as we know that as the town moves into the
country in queenstown's a plassic example of that. You know,
(07:03):
that's more prevalent. But the manners of these dogs or
just jet dogs in general with people. You know you
read about them going to dog parks and the dogs
having fights and you out left them off leads and
you know it just starts at the training that most
of the people have got dogs shouldn't bloody have them
and you know, you go to a dog trial and
there's a you know in New Zealand there's a thousand dogs.
(07:25):
There's never a fight and it's good they've broken and well,
I'm manned. I imagine the same at Crufts and those
agility shows. You know, those people are you know, they
know what they're dogs when they train them. So it's
bloody and excusable, but that's the way it is, and
that's what we're you know, that's what we're finding against
at the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And these dogs.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
As far as micro shipping everything else, that's probably not
on the agenda for the owners either, unfortunately. No.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And you know I did speak to the owner this
time and discussed it and what have you, and you
know I offered a couple of solutions and that, you
know with regarding putting them down and said I pay
for it and actually pay him for being able to
do have that privilege. But he's de climbed that. But
(08:11):
you know knows they're doing it. And you know I've
seen the on the on the WhatsApp thing will send
out to all those people up there. You know, he's
seen what they've done. But yeah, not do anything about
it so that you know, frustrading and and crawel and
you know reason and expensive. It's probably about fifteen grand
so far. So it's like feeding strawberries to a peg,
(08:34):
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It's all about accountability. Grant always appreciate your time. He's
hoping you get a decent outcome.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh well, yes, you nevern know, but I'm not hopeful.
But you know, to all those people out there that
may be listening that have got dogs, for christ, they
keep them under control, know where they are, and you
know we wouldn't have the situation. And the other thing is,
you know these dogs are a different breed and they
once I've got the taste of that, as I said
to the guy that owns them, they will stop until
(09:01):
you know they're eighty. So's to thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Grab a master at kloseper In Station with a message
as well they're regarding dogs.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Thanks of course. Abby Rural.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We catch up the ground every week. Daryl Moyles is
up next with Saturn Den's stock Feed
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