Mr. Hugh Farrell:

Identifying the owner is the biggest problem. I walked two or three fields back to the house from where a dog had attacked my sheep. I was lucky that there were men working on a roof who identified where I walked from. The dog owner said the dogs had only just been let out, that they had just been given meat and that was why there was blood around their mouths. I had witnesses, but in a lot of cases farmers do not have a witness or backup. That is the big problem. It is one person's word against another's until we can really identify the dogs. This is why we are talking about having DNA and other means of identifying them. This is where we are at a loss.