Dogs, Dogs, Dingoes! Everybody loves a dog. But what about dingoes!

Most people skirt around me. They worry that I am going to bite. After all, I am a native dog. How’s that for a laugh!

I was bred by a fellow who loved dingoes. My mother and father were bred by the same fellow. So was grand-dad and gramma too. In fact, all my family was for the last 25 years.

He wanted to domesticate the dingo. He was called, “the guy who loves dingos.”

I am a dingo through and through. I love being a dingo. It suits me. Being a dingo matches all the qualities that I possess.

I am a tenacious sort of beast – well, all dingoes are; I love that word because it shows what we really are about. If dingoes weren’t, they would have starved. 

They don’t give up. When their family hadn’t eaten for a few days, I’m told, a pack of them would hunt for some kind of wildlife – it’s another trait.
 

Above: A youngster puts their nose to work. Top: She eyed the territory yet to explore.
 

I am told that dingoes will sit for a long time hidden away by undergrowth until the prey returns. There is usually a protracted fight but, by and large, the dingoes are the victors.

I’m very sympathetic: that is because I am privately bred. When I was small when people used the pick me up and play with me as if I were their ‘native’ dog.
 

Even in 1840, they were unpleasant.
 

Whereas my ancestors would eat the person alive; and look for more.

Even today, I feel influential. But my ancestors – they would yell or howl in an unearthly kind of tone; and be dangerous to anyone and anything in sight. Being influential for a wild dingo had a serious outcome – live or die.

Let me say this before I go: I read recently where the dingo is being described as an “unpleasant neighbour.” We roam in vast numbers. They say wherever the creatures go trouble follows them.

The dingo came to Australia about 4000 years ago as an Asiatic Wolf or Indian Wolf dog.

Most of the dingo breeds roamed wild country, especially in the Northern Territory. Today it’s different. Most of the dingoes are roaming near the cities where there is no drought.

The is what “domesticated” means. My name Dee. - Frank Morris.
 

Our Native Dog explained

Although dingoes probably arrived in Australia with the ancestors of the Aborigines and were most likely a domesticated version of the Asiatic Wolf or Indian Wolf dog, they are now completely accepted as Australia’s Native Dog. They were first reported as early as 1623; while Dutch seafarer, Jan Carstensz, was exploring the east coast. Three different types, by distinguishable differences  in their coat, exist today.

<< Details from a book on wolves.
 

Dingoes: Something about them!