mowing posted:

Went to Whiteman Park (bit of an adventure park/picnic area in the northern suburbs of Perth) to take the dog for a run. There was a couple of Blue Heelers there and a dingo. It was an Alpine Dingo and the owner got it from a guy in the Snowy's that had about 100 of them. It was a pure bred and a nice dog that enjoyed playing with the other dogs. He was saying that he believed the wild pig and roo increase was as a result of the culling of dingo's with 1080. This makes sense.
He had a black eye and a few cuts and bruises and said that he was attacked by 6 aborigines when he came of night shift the other night.
I know who he feels more safe with.

Hairy (NT) posted:

Gday,
Thats not uncommon in Alice and its getting worse.
Camp Dogs are the biggest problem...You'd hardly call them dingos anymore.
A mate went for a walk a while ago with his son and dogs and was attacked by a pack of camp dogs! His dogs were killed.

Mind you if your could see and hear my neighbours at the moment I reckon youd rather face a pack of dogs!!!

Cheers

Footloose posted:

I'm a light sleeper in remote areas. But I do keep a non firearm weapon in the tent. Beaudesert...heck, that's not too far away :((

Footloose posted:

Hairy, do they pass sawdust ? LOL
I rekkon you should shift away from those camps, before the Govt gives your place to em. Now that would be a sorry situation.

Hairy (NT) posted:

Gday Footloose,
If they would stay away long enough for some silly bugger to buy my house Id be happy!
Cheers

Patrolman Pat posted:

I'm curious as to what kind of animals do belong here. I've owned a GSD in the past and currently own a GSD x Rotty. Both fine, well trained, well mannered dogs. Dogs generally are not a problem, it's bad owners and breeders that should be highlighted, not the particular breed.

bv posted:

Hairy,

I read somewhere recently that a pure bred group of dingoes has been found in the more remote reaches of Lake Burragorang in the Blue Mountains National Park.

BruceV

Steve from Top End Explorer Tours posted:

Kakadu and Arnhemland are full of them.

Cheers Steve.

Hairy (NT) posted:

Yeah....I dont know but some documentry I saw on the ABC a while ago reckoned That Fraser had the only 100% dingoes left in the wild???

Mind you It was just after a kid got maulled on Fraser and they were about to blow a heap of them away. Might have been trying to stop the culling.

Cheers

mowing posted:

The guy with the dingo was telling me about this story which I had not heard. I will tell you his version..... The female dingo had pups and she also had some eye condition. The children tipped sand on the dingo which aggravated the eyes and then they crabbed one of the pups and the male reacted by biting one of the kids and it bit an artery in the leg and the young person died of blood loss. End of his version.
I don't know but if the only pure breeds are left on Fraser and humans go there to camp and leave food scraps then when something happens they(the authorities) go on a mad cull shooting any dingo in sight.
If we didn't go there, no problem would exist or at least went there with a knowledge of what the risks were. It is like the sharks, as soon as there is shark attack, lets go kill the sharks. Doesn't sound quite fair to me to kill things that were there first purely so we can have safe recreational pursuits.

Member - DAZA (QLD) posted:

Hi All

My Wife and I stayed at King Fisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island,a
couple of years back, we were sitting in the Resorts Restaurant,
on the out side dinning area, it was just on dusk, when this Dingo
casually walked up the ramp entrance and strolled among the dinners,
one of the staff said it was a common occurrence, and they said
people were always throwing food scraps to them,which was a big
no no, apparently the rangers soon after had relocated them to another part of the island, you cant blame the animals for peoples
stupidity.

Cheers

Daza

Hairy (NT) posted:

My kids had to take to the trees after some dingoes started stalking them at Birthday waterhole.

mowing posted:

Fair go Hairy, Can we at least keep this on a level.
"My kids had to take to the trees after some dingoes started stalking them at Birthday Waterhole"
Its not the main street of Alice and what do you consider stalking. Where were you and how far away from camp are we talking about?.

It is lucky that we don't 4wd in Africa otherwise there would not be a lion, tiger or leopard left.

Hairy (NT) posted:

mowing,
Keep it on the level?
What has the main street of Alice got to do with Birthday Waterhole?
Stalking-To walk with a stiff, haughty, or angry gait
-To move threateningly or menacingly
-To pursue by tracking stealthily
-To follow or observe (a person) persistently
Where was I? Collecting fire wood.
How far from the camp? About 500m


"It is lucky that we don't 4wd in Africa otherwise there would not be a lion, tiger or leopard left."
What the bloody hell has that got do with my kids climbing a tree to get away from dingoes????
My kids have been brought up in an environment where you need to think for yourself occationally. And for them to climb a tree and let me know what was happening rather than panic is the sensible thing to do.
Weather you love dingoes or hate them a seven year old kid is no match for a pck of dingoes....Have you ever seen them pull down a cow?

But just for the record...if they continued this sort of behaviour they would have got a warning with a 44-40...

mowing posted:

Hairy, my point was that it is the bush and not civilisation ie city. My concern was and is that some people try to put the fear of god into others (not saying that you were) that don't know any different ie tourist that may see a dingo and think that it needs to be killed because I have read that it stalks people. They are a wild animal just as lions and tigers are in Africa hence my reference to that part of the world. Understand that when I talk about dingoes I am talking pure bred not camp dog cross. On Fraser there was a report of a woman tourist getting on all fours with food in her mouth and getting a dingo to take the food from her mouth for the camera. How high is a 3 y/o child- about the same height as this woman on all fours. The tourists just need to leave them alone ie no food scraps or camera shots.

Anyway I didn't realise that you had such a good bike!

Hairy (NT) posted:

Gday ,
Mate.. If people understood dingoes are a pack dog with hunting instincs they wouldnt confront them!! Therefore the dogs woulnt bite people so you wouldnt have to shoot them.
Just learn to live with them! and that is put a healthy fear into peolple and shoot the bleep out of the trouble ones.... and in a 100 years they might still be around.

Were are you from mate?

mowing posted:

G'day Hairy, I am from WA (Perth). My point exactly, if people leave them alone and not use them like koala bears being held by japanese tourists for the camera then you will know which ones are bad or should I say have a mean streak which needs to be culled out. But if you have tourists feeding them, patting them and generally encouraging them to come close, the problems will start.

Regards


Mark