[Animals] His dog scares the sheep, beats up the shepherd and also denounces him

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A man who played sports passed by the place and transferred the Gipuzkoan shepherd with a broken jaw to the hospital. ENBA has indicated that the aggression has been "an extreme case", but has asked for "a little respect" for the work of the farmers.

A Gipuzkoan shepherd has denounced that the owner of a dog beat him when he went to pick up the animal and also filed a complaint against the breeder whom he accused of having tried to run him over.

The event took place last week in a town in Gipuzkoa, indicated the ENBA union coordinator, Xabier Iraola, who indicated that the victim preferred to remain anonymous.

According to what he has related, the shepherd saw that the flock was "a little revolutionized" and verified that the cause was an urban dog that was among them, so he decided to take it to his farmhouse waiting for its owners to appear.

Shortly after taking the dog to his farmhouse, a woman, accompanied by another woman and a man, showed up in a car at the farm demanding the animal and the rancher told them that "next time they should tie it up" given the commotion that had provoked.

"Without saying a word", the man who was inside the car began to hit the windows, "he even broke a window", and after opening the door of the vehicle he attacked the pastor, breaking his jaw. , according to the version related by Iraola. A man who was practicing sports passed by the place and took the injured man to the hospital.

The pastor has filed the corresponding complaint with the Ertzaintza, but "the attacker has also filed another claiming that they had tried to run over them," says Iraola.

He has criticized that "people who live in an urban environment, when they go to the mountains, release the dog that enters a fence where the herds are." Sometimes they also attack cattle, as happened last week on a farm in Elgoibar, which recorded four attacks (Gipuzkoa).

When this happens many times the owner of the dog cannot be found and it is the breeder's insurance that must deal with the loss of head of cattle, indicated Iraola.

Iraola has indicated that the aggression has been "an extreme case" and has asked for "a little respect" for the work of the ranchers.

The Diputación asks "responsibility" to the owners of the dogs

The spokesperson for the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, Eider Mendoza, has called on dog owners for "responsibility" and recalled that in the bush these animals have to "always be on a leash".

He has pointed out that the foral entity has carried out awareness campaigns in this regard, but that the Provincial Council "cannot always be in all places" and it is the dog owners who bear that responsibility.

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