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Dogs trained to guard goats and sheep against cheetahs in Namibia are being felled at an alarming rate by venomous snakes – so conservationists are piloting a new training method to teach the dogs to avoid them. <\/em><\/p>\n By protecting livestock from attacks, dogs can play a crucial role in reducing conflict between farmers and endangered predators.<\/p>\n But Anatolian and Kangal shepherd dogs, ancient breeds native to Turkey and now deployed to guard farms in Namibia, are so devoted to their herds that they’ll…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Dogs trained to guard goats and sheep against cheetahs in Namibia are being felled at an alarming rate by venomous snakes – so conservationists are piloting a new training method to teach the dogs to avoid them. By protecting livestock from attacks, dogs can play a crucial role in reducing conflict between farmers and endangered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00160052:394ed410ad700aba9d042bf0bbc2d575:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,28482,22787,12839,8099,6328,4706,724,9052,257,6202,7301,9357,254,4287],"class_list":["post-177100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cheetahs","tag-dodge","tag-dogs","tag-helps","tag-livestock","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-save","tag-snakes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00160052:394ed410ad700aba9d042bf0bbc2d575:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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