The state government is introducing a $120 bounty for each wild dog shot by drought-affected landholders south of the Dog Fence, as part of a drought package announced this week that also includes the hiring of an additional full-time dog trapper
SA Dog Fence Board chair Geoff Power said when the mammoth rebuild of the ageing dog fence was completed, it would be a "just as big, if not bigger" task to eradicate dogs already inside the fence.
"There are three ways we can get these dogs, the first one is to bait and secondly to trap the cunning dogs that don't take the bait," he said.
"The third one, shooting, is opportunistic - a lot of times you don't see the dogs you only see the damage.
"If you drove around looking for dogs you would run out of fuel first but having said that, landholders shot a lot of dogs in 2019 so $120 would be handy in their pockets."
Mr Power said for a wild dog bounty to be successful it would require some "safeguards".
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