A pack of uncontrolled dogs is moving through remote Whanganui backcountry and killing everything they come across, Tom McClunie says.
He owns Riminui Station and a hunting block far up the Waitotara Valley, and lives in Hamilton. The dogs are coming from a Watershed Rd property where they are uncontained and uncontrolled.
"My farm operator isn't prepared to have his wife ride her horse out there, and I won't let my grandchildren ride their bikes there until this is resolved."
The dogs have been described as beardies or huntaways in appearance.
The dog problem has existed for about five years, and started affecting his property about three years ago. The first he heard about it was when a possum hunter watched four dogs chase a deer round and round, then kill it.