I spent two years with a dogger in the employ of the NSW Nat.Parks and learned a hell of a lot. But I am 100% against baiting. Can those in the know in this thread put their hand on their heart and stake a years pay on baits being dog specific only and never affecting any other animal, native or otherwise???
The only surgical means of getting rid of them is by shooting or trapping. Either one is labour intensive and no doubt not as efficient as baiting. But there is no room for doubt over what has been shot and that there will be no further effect on any other animal.
Maybe the Hunting & Conservation Group needs to have a long talk with NSW NPWS. Like any feral control program it will not be 100% effective overnight and will take time.
I feel for the farmers and wish there was an overnight cure to the problem, but there isn't! So , instead of the politicians giving themselves yet another pay rise, compensation should be given to the farmers for stock losses.
Hunters make the best conservationists it seems and it's about time the 'drop kicks' supposedly in the know in government agencies, woke up! Get off their lazy fat buttholes and get out on the land. Grow some common sense and help the farmers and our ecosystems!

My rant over...