John Young and the Night Parrot - and dogs?

["Michael Norris" <>]

My thanks too to Russell for his elegant summary of John’s talk.

There wasn’t time for me to ask my question, which was whether John/anyone was 
considering using trained dogs to protect the only known Night Parrot area, 
which is not at all large, from cats.   

This would be to complement longer-term efforts to use diseases, or genetic 
manipulation to prevent cats breeding, and killing of cats by Dingoes.

In Australia, trained dogs are protecting a penguin colony from foxes (using 
Italian  – Maremma – sheepdogs at Middle Island, near Warmanbool) and Macquarie 
Island from rabbits (using Springer Spaniels).   

Sorry not to say hi to more people last night.

I was trying to protect you from the worst cold north of Ricketts Point :-)

Michael Norris
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