Two wolf attacks against sheep herd in Sörmland

The first attack occurred on August 6. A sheep was then attacked in a garden belonging to a farm between Gnesta and Sparreholm.

When the county administrative board visited the farm in question two days later to set up scare devices, they found that two more could have been killed.

- It is a large herd with several pastures where the attacks took place, says the county administrative director Johan Varenius, who does not want to go into which farm it is about.

Among other things, the County Administrative Board has set up extra, temporary fences around the pastures to try to prevent more attacks.

In Sörmland there are two well-known wolverines, the Erla-reviret and the Sjunda-reviret, but it is still too early to say if it is a wolf from there that has attacked the sheep.

- It is not entirely unlikely that there could be another wolf that has moved in the area, but we do not know which individual it is that has done this, says Johan Varenius.

No wolf litter has been found at the site, but the county administrative board has taken a sample from one of the killed sheep in the hope of securing the wolf-dna. The sample has been sent for analysis.

The pet owner can apply for compensation for the killed sheep.