USDA Promoting LGDs

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working to get livestock guardian dogs, or LGDs, in Colorado ranchers’ hands since 2020. Some ranchers have been slow to give them a try due to costliness, training challenges, time investment and some dogs’ reputation for being aggressive. But Wildlife Services, within the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, believes they’re an important link in helping ranchers dealing with wolves reintroduced to Colorado during the winters of 2023/24 and 2025.

Livestock guardian dogs bred in Colorado could be the nonlethal deterrent the USDA has been looking for

A Steamboat couple breeds 180-pound Turkish Boz Shepherds, known for loving kids, lamb and calves — and for protecting them from predators including wolves.

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