Did Anyone Lose A Maremma Near Bundaberg?

[Boronia]

ABC article http://www.abc.net.a...t--dogs/4664964

I have bolded the relevant part

More than three months on, the fallout of the Australia Day floods in south-east Queensland is still causing pain.

A lot of things have disappeared down the rivers and out to sea, but some interesting things have washed up.

Agronomists say farms in south-east Queensland lost up to five centimetres of top soil in this year's floods, but one farmer says he lost six times that amount.

Monto dairy farmers Russell and Carol Larsen bowed out of the industry just days before the floods, ending a combined 100 years of dairying in their families.

But as Mr Larsen says, while he got out unscathed, his son's lucerne crop didn't fare so well.

"It was probably two metres over all his flats and just absolutely devastated the cultivation."

After two floods in as many weeks, Mr Larsen said the effects were monumental.

"I've been told by Landcare that for every centimetre, you lose a thousand tonnes of top soil, well we lost I'd say 30 to 40 centimetres of top soil in places, and that's what's feeding the fish in the Burnett River."

While some farmers lament their losses, others are dealing with unwelcome extras.

A big woolly guardian dog is believed to have floated more than 30 kilometres down the Burnett River in the floods and has now found a new friend.

Desley Warmington runs a small sheep flock guarded by a male Maremma dog south of Bundaberg and she's not particularly pleased that her pooch has taken up with the new arrival.

"This dog just basically came in and was sitting around, didn't attempt to chase or anything... (but) now we've had to put our dog into the house block (because fences were washed away in the floods) and this dog is coming back all the time and hanging around."

The visitor is starting to take the resident dog away from the house, so Mrs Warmington says the time has come to do something.

She placed a council trap on her property a couple of nights ago but hasn't had much luck so far.

"I put a tin of dog food in there but she's pretty cunning, she actually sat quite near it, but whether she's not hungry enough to go in, whether she's got food elsewhere."

[Steve]

Robin Thompson is in that area - Glendawn prefix she might be able to help.Easy to find via the breeder listing for Maremma on this site.

[Boronia]

Thanks very much Julie, I have sent her an email with a link to this topic.

[Clyde]

Is it a Maremma though? It seems odd that it's described as 'a big wooly guardian dog' when they've named the breed for the other dog. I mean, obviously it sounds as though it is a Maremma - it just seems odd that they havent stated the breed when they are trying to locate the owner