This does show the contempt man has for preditors that interfere with his little world. The loss of a few sheep ( in comparison to the over all sheep population) is nothing compared to the damage caused by White Tail deer in the corn belt. Yet, you never hear the outrage about crop loss. It was est. that when the Desoto landed on Florida's shores there wwere some 1 million white tail deer in the U.S. Today we have 900,000 deer in Illinois alone.