Aussies, tell me about the dingo
 

Not the dingo that ate yo baby.


You never hear about anyone over here in N. American owning a purebred dingo pup, and I got to wondering why. Anyone know? I know they are like Aussie wolves, but surely they must be ownable and trainable from pups?


Tell me what you know about the dingo. Thanks.

There's quite a few people in .au with dingo / half dingo pups. No idea why they aren't exported though. Probably due to the fact that they can be quite psychopathic.

Well, to my knowledge any breed of dog can be quite psychopathic. I'm sure it's all in how they are trained, cared for, and loved.

If they are indeed ownable and trainable, I should think they would make for a great pet and protector, no? Yes?

There may come a day when I would want to own one.

I've lived in AU my whole life and the only place I've seen a Dingo is at the zoo. But I'm sure if you raised them properly they'd be great pets! :thumbsup

Look, they're making my new dingo pup for me right now!

I'm not sure that there is such a thing as a pure bred dingo because that would imply that the dingos were a distinct and separate breed to your ordinary dog.

I think I read somewhere recently where DNA testing has shown that the dingo is actually descended from some domestic dogs that came across from Asia many thousands of years ago.

That's probably because of the dingo fence - if you live in eastern Australia the only place other than zoos to see dingos is just over the water from here on Fraser Island

This is the kind of information I'm talking about. Thanks. I'll see if I can find out more about this.... dog. I always thought it was a separate breed unto itself, they sure seem distinctive in certain ways. But what do I know? About the dingo, not all that much.

pyschopathic lol


if they are potentially baby munchers.. there are probably more favorable breeds out there..

HERE we go....

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040802_289.html


Some interesting stuff in that article about DNA testing too.

There are camels in Australia? I knew there was some great camel toe there, but camels too? I can't recall if I ever learned that back in grade school.


Looks like the notion of owning a dingo pup is a bad one. I may have to choose another breed of dog and just name it "Dingo".

Then I can go around saying "The dingo ate yo babay" :D

it is illegal to own a dingo or a dingo cross breed. (unless you are a licensed wildlife park etc)

dingos are actually becoming a problem because the normally shy and not very big dingos are breeding with german shepards, rotties, mastiffs etc and then you get some pretty nasty feral puppies.

In all countries? I live in Canada.

Pissfunny, looks like you're wrong about that.....


Here's the link: http://www.abc.gov.au/science/news/stories/s17380.htm

Some of them are damned nice looking dogs.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/dingo.gif

A little off topic but....there are a lot of wolf/wolf hybrids that are kept as pets here in Alaska. The ones Ive seen were sort of pitiful, very shy, didnt like being inside and constantly paced the perimiter of their yards.

I have lived in Australia my whole life and only seen 1 dingo. I have heard more about the aussie dingo from americans making jokes! :1orglaugh

Looks like there are in fact "purebred dingos" being offered by breeders now. Not sure if any in Canada are doing so, but there very well could be. I've also seen some articles on something called an "Australian herding dog" of which looked like pretty nice dogs too. Not too huge, but still big enough to be considered "not a dog for wimps". ha ha

gotta be careful of those, they are bred to be cattle dogs and as such are very nippy - they'll nip people on the ankles and what not especially when cooped up on a normal quarter acre block - they're meant to be on farms.

I'm more interested in the dingo.


(not the one that ate yo babay)

Don't laugh but we export camels to many Arab countries .

I've noticed you export camel toe over to Canada sometimes too. :thumbsup

We always keep the best for ourselves :1orglaugh

Further to: dingos as pets,

I'm finding a lot of sites and pages where it becomes clear that dingos are indeed raised as pets, sold as pets, trained, etc.

http://www.dogpage.us/california-carolinas.htm

http://www.gotpetsonline.com/cgi-bin...i?fcad_id=5539

http://www.wwwins.net.au/dingofarm/12.html

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/dingo.htm


I like the look of this dog.

Yup the small town I lived in in Australia for a while had a really wide main street. Reason being to allow enough space for the camel drivers (jockeys?) to turn around.

I worked in remote desert areas with helicopters for a couple years and saw lots of camels from the air and two dingo's one from the air and one on the ground.

The one I saw on the ground came running around the corner in a dry river bed and when it saw me the look on its face was priceless. It was about 10 feet away and looked at me like "what/who the fuck are you??" like I was an alien. I can guarantee it had never seen a human and it took off as fast as it could in the opposite direction. :)

"Dingoes can be kept as pets if they are taken from the litter before 6 weeks of age. At this young age they can be tamed, but once over 10 weeks they should not be taken out of the wild. If properly trained and cared for the Dingo can make a very nice unique pet.

They are said to be able to perform agility and general obedience. The dingo has some unusual traits - a great tree climber and at times a bit aloof, but these are interesting traits and are in the same category as the dingoes nearest cousin the New Guinea Singing Dog and the Finnish Spitz, but displaying the same characteristics. They do not have the same degree of tooth crowding and shortening of the jaw that distinguish other dog breeds from their ancestor, the Indian Plains Wolf. Also like the wolf, the female Dingo has only one breeding cycle each year.

Unlike other dogs, the Dingo chooses a mate for life, sometimes mourning itself to death after the loss of its partner."



Interesting stuff.

Interesting stuff... Fraser Island has heaps of dingos. I have gone on camping trips there before, and the dingo population used to be timid and not really try to interact with people, but over the last few years they started a dingo cull on Fraser Island because dingos would walk right in to your camp and go straight for the food and they were attacking people that were there. Now, I don't know the finer details like where the breed originated from and that sort of thing, but they are a wild animal with sharp teeth. The wilderness is in their blood, yeah. Like, the same question could be asked about Timber Wolves, lions, tigers and crocs. Like, how come they don't export wolves, or lions as pets? If you train them well why couldn't you? Geuss it's hard to predict how they are gonna turn out, and if they lash out even once, then that could mean the end of you, or even yo baby, LOL.
Anyhoo, that's my :2 cents: