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CallMeProtart
post 22/01/2013, 12:30 PM
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Does anyone know much about these?
A cousin of mine has gotten right into them and keeps sending me links to ones looking for a home. Apparently their temperament is lovely yada yada yada - but of course this is from a Dingo preservation website so I've no idea whether this is actually true.

Thought I'd ask advice from an alternate source! Not really sure if we're ready for a dog, but I do toy with the idea occasionally.
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ChexMix
post 22/01/2013, 12:38 PM
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Get an alcatraz-style containment system. They have wrists! ohmy.gif
And don't expect a reliable recall, ever.
Personally, I think the dogs we have spent 20,000 years breeding to enjoy our company are just awesome. I can understand rescuing an abandoned pup, but in general they don't need us or even particularly like us, so wouldn't be my 1st, 2nd or 50th choice for a pet.
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post 22/01/2013, 12:39 PM
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Ummm, don't know much about them other than its illegal to keep one as a domestic pet in Qld.

Personally, if you don't know if you're ready for a dog, don't even look at an animal that is still quite wild. Domestic dogs have been domesticated over many, many, many generations with ethical breeding aiming to breed sound temperaments into family dogs.

I'd keep looking.
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post 22/01/2013, 12:40 PM
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Look at your state regulation in keep dingoes, they are a protected species and you may have to have a special license to keep these.
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post 22/01/2013, 12:44 PM
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Well they are illegal to keep as a domestic pet in this state too.

My sister had a very dingo-y looking dog once, strangers would approach you if you were walking him and go right off assuming he was a dingo and lecturing you about how dangerous that was!

They are NOT good pets. They are a wild dog. If you wouldn't want a jackal or a wolf as a pet then you wouldn't want a dingo either.
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post 22/01/2013, 12:45 PM
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Add to that the fact that the likelihood of a pure bred dingo is lower and lower nowadays.
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CallMeProtart
post 22/01/2013, 12:46 PM
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or Fembo maybe...
Seems to be legal here, as the guy currently rehoming his dog lives a couple of hours from me.

He did say though that it IS an amazing escape artist (wrists????), so I think that rules us out as we are on a main road... sad.gif
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post 22/01/2013, 12:48 PM
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My understanding is the only purebred dingoes left in Australia are on Fraser Island... the mainland ones are mixed with wild dogs (so the temperament/colouring/size would be different to that of a dingo).

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/jou...rom-hybrids.htm

Where can you even get a dingo pup from?
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ChexMix
post 22/01/2013, 12:52 PM
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Yep, wrists, and cunning smarts up the wazoo - http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/jou...of-tool-use.htm
Australian Cattle Dogs have some dingo in them but are easy to train and will love you to pieces original.gif Kelpies are very similar-looking too if you like that body-type, you can even get yellow kelpies, but again with a great temperament original.gif
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post 22/01/2013, 12:54 PM
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QUOTE (asdf89 @ 22/01/2013, 10:48 AM)
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My understanding is the only purebred dingoes left in Australia are on Fraser Island... the mainland ones are mixed with wild dogs (so the temperament/colouring/size would be different to that of a dingo).

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/jou...rom-hybrids.htm

Where can you even get a dingo pup from?


Not according to the latest research http://www.feral.org.au/dingo-purity-in-australia/
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