He may be in his 60s, but his legs make him fly up the mountain.
Joseph Pujol has been traveling the Haut-Salat valley, in Ariège, since he was born, first to help his family to raise the sheep and the cows during the summer, then as a breeder, and today, as a shepherd .
The last young people to come to his summer pasture in Pouilh even suggested that he donate his body to science.
“They are used to it, they walk quickly to go from one sheep body to another.
But I get ahead of them every time!
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Laughs the sixty-year-old.
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These young people came to verify the bear's implication in the death of sheep declared predated, to allow compensation from the State.
This year, Joseph has listed 105 corpses out of the 2,480 sheep he keeps in a hundred days, between mid-June and October.
130, last year.
And we must add the 77 missing that the breeders think hunted by bears.
"Before, it was rare ... At worst, some years, 10 sheep were missing"
, assures Joseph.
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