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A Queensland MP has sparked outrage by killing a dog, believed to be feral and suspected of fatally mauling a prized ram, and posting a photo of the kill to social media.
Steven Andrew revealed he shot and killed the canine when it came to his property a second time, after it had killed “a $25,000 ram trying to protect his herd”.
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“It was so good he came back for seconds,” Andrew wrote on Facebook with a photo of the dog’s carcass draped over the bonnet of a 4WD.
“Now I’m not saying he didn’t enjoy it but these things are a ONCE in a lifetime experience.
“I actually let him get into the dog-proof fencing area before I prematurely made his meeting with his maker.
“They are getting more bolder and closer by the day.”
The One Nation MP, for the Mackay region electorate of Mirani, defended his actions in the comments after people described the slaying as “despicable”, “disgraceful” and “narrow-minded”.
He said the ram “was eaten from the back-end half (while) alive” and “would have had a slow death” because of the dog that has “just got a hankering for expensive domestic sheep”.
“I have people in my patch that will not walk around at night because of dogs,” Andrew wrote.
“I don’t paper over problems, I don’t tap away on things. It’s better to deal with it before the pendulum swings too far.
“Is it a perfect world? Absolutely not, but I would rather see a problem animal go then (sic) 100’s persecuted and killed because of it.”
He also received many supportive comments, including one that read: “We need more action and less talk from do-gooders in the city.”
“My fur coat, we do,” Andrew responded.
Authorities consider feral dogs to be a “significant pest animal in Australia” due to their “significant detrimental effect on the agricultural sector”.