Bring them on.
Farmers send their children into nearby forests to grass the cattle.
They are faster than any other jungle game and like to play and harass wild beasts. Even we have a case that a leopard quitted the scene when a springer spaniel started challenging him. Yak and Buffalo often block the narrow footpaths in the rocks for our approaching searchparties. That makes them nervous and they quit the footpath. We found out all of this after a pensioner Gurkha British army officer gave his Springer Jasper to us.