Some nature pics from Australia

G'day Carl

warrigal said:
.... Most have never seen a Wild dingo in the wild.....
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With the exception of a very few isolated populations, how many true bred dingoes do you reckon are left on the mainland?

Wild dogs (including various crosses between non-pure bred dingoes & lost pig dogs) are a real problem in the Snowys, especially around the NSW & Vic border.

BTW, I agree feral cats should be shot on site. I shot a ginger Tom in the 80's that measured 1.07 metres from the nose to the anus (ie no tail). They go a long way to explaining the "black Panther" that's been reported in the Blue Mountains.



Kind regards
Mick
 
you can call me al said:
I would say most people tolerated them they been around for a real long time.

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As you ask for it Shooter..here is one eating my bannock..:(
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They look like they have great camo. Infectious bite?
 
Cool pics. The Dingo looks really cool. Looks awesome, thanks for sharing :thumbup:
 
@ OP: lovely pix! thaks for sharing.

PB Wilson said:
Question: How do people generally treat dingos. Are they tolerated, loved, hated? Just curious.
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they are protected on Fraser Island and are considered a feral pest everywhere on the mainland (see below).

there's a popular song:

"Ringo The Dingo, out Tully Morgen way;
You can hear him laughing, from miles and miles away......"

can't remember the rest of it off the top of my head and my google-fu is phailing.


SouthernCross said:
With the exception of a very few isolated populations, how many true bred dingoes do you reckon are left on the mainland?
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none.

which is very sad.

unfortunatly, the mainland Dingo population has been interbreeding with domestic dog breeds for the last 100-150 years and as such, they aren't true dingos anymore.

the only surviving population of purebred dingos left is on Fraser Island.

SouthernCross said:
BTW, I agree feral cats should be shot on site. I shot a ginger Tom in the 80's that measured 1.07 metres from the nose to the anus (ie no tail). They go a long way to explaining the "black Panther" that's been reported in the Blue Mountains.
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yuh. "If It's Feral, It's In Peril" is my motto. especially damn cats. my local council offers a $10/tail Feral Animal Bounty on cats and $100 for wild dogs. wild dogs are a major pest problem near stock, especially during Lambing season.

i have no trouble at all believing you shot a 1.07m feral cat and I agree that all these "Black Panther" sightings are nothing more than an exceptionally large feral cat. i'm hoping to get permission to take my compound bow down to the local tip after i spotted over half a dozen whopping great huge feral cats (up near the 1m range) inside 1/2 an hour there a couple of weeks ago. damn 1080 isn't very effective for feral cat control.

they are the top order predator in Australia (along with dogs and pigs). the only thing that will hunt/control cats/dogs/pigs is people.
 
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Dingo pics are primo. Very good, thanks for posting these. I love dogs, that dingo is pretty handsome.
 
Being Dingos are ancestors of domesticated dogs,do they make good pets? Handsome dogs. Must be smart to evolve like they have.
 
dipbait said:
do they make good pets?
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i've heard tales of a Dingo being domesticated a couple of times. apparantly, you want to be very, very careful training them. whack 'em across the nose just once and they never forget it nor do they forgive it. so training is a little difficult.

iirc: the current "Blue Heeler" breed in Australia can trace it's ancestry back to dingos.
 
I wonder. The process of domesticating animals like dogs (choosing those with desirable personality traits/ temperament and breeding with others with similar desirable traits) was only recently explained to me. It had never really occurred to me before! I'd just figured you tame a dog and somehow that magically transfers to its offspring ;)

Wonder if the dingo, after such a long time being wild, has those favorable temperament traits watered down or lost within the breed as a whole.
 
beef said:
Wonder if the dingo, after such a long time being wild, has those favorable temperament traits watered down or lost within the breed as a whole.
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i wouldn't have a clue.

folklore suggests that if you can successfully train up a dingo pup, you'll have a great mate for life. just never, ever whack it (not even the usual soft smack on the snout when they go potty on the carpet).
 
If I see a Komodo while camping, taking a picture of it is the last thing on my mind. I'd haul ass.
 
kudos warragal we have problems with dogs gone wild in the u.s. also . afew years back in texas about 20 miles west of abilene a large bunch of cattle were stampeded out of holding pens. scattered along the highway were a major head ache to correct.they are scattered around various rural areas mostly from oklahoma east & can be dangerous.
 
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