Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
In two days, the wolves attacked and killed 17 sheep at Mats Eriksson’s farm Brandsbol outside Gräsmark. The fence he set up was not sufficient to protect the animals.
Earlier this spring Mats Eriksson released 75 sheep and lambs in the predator protected pastures. In two days he lost 17 sheep. Twelve sheep in an attack on Sunday and yesterday killed five.
Mats Eriksson has put a lot of time and money to fix electric fence around the sheep and today he feels a bit dejected.
“The next step is to fix the zoo fence. But if predators want to come in they do. Last Sunday, I thought that things could happen. Yesterday, it hurt the soul. I was really angry. Yesterday the wolf did not eat, they had just killed the sheep. That’s okay if they take a sheep and eat, but this is difficult for me to handle mentally,” says Mats Eriksson to P4 Värmland.
The economic part does not worry Mats Eriksson. But it’s not like he wants to make money on their animals:
“Compensation received from the provincial government is not bad. But it’s cruelty to animals when the animals are attacked in this way.
Q: You let out 75 animals in the spring, 17 are now gone. How does it feel?
“This kind of thing does not amuse me. Maybe I finish with this and then let the ground to grow again. I have cows that I could drop off, but it does not work in small pens with great environmental value. There is too much hassle with cows,” says Mats Eriksson.