Girl mauled by Fraser Island dingo

Easily Fixed, Get rid of the tourists, no more problems.

After watching National Parks on Frazer Island for 2 years I was disturbed by the by their lack of care or want for the dingo unless it got in the media that's why they didn't like the photgrapher. When they put the fences up they should have put in a feeding program 1. to intice the dingo away from the public 2. to get them back into feeding themselves. Does anyone really agree that starving a animal was going to do any good for anyone. We all have to take the blame for their current menatlity because it was the public that feed them for so long. National Parks don't answer for their mistakes they just take the tax money and don't do much good. Kakadu got 30 million for operations and Australian natives died, why ? I do however feel for the liitle girl and her family it would be a fright for life.

Perhaps they should round them all up and send them to the USA:

Dingo in USA

Not to sure if it's even legal to export them.

Bruce

My first thought when I read this was that it was probably "getting back" on something it's own size for a previous kicking or suchlike. I have seen people mistreating dingos many times and Dingos don't forget.

When living in Malaysia I had a "Kampong dog" which I understand from DNA tests is what a Dingo is or where they originated from. It had many Dingo traits like licking inside the mouth of other dogs to have food regurgitated.

When it was mistreated it would lay low for a while then get revenge. For example we had an obnoxious child visit who ran over it's tail with a bike, It went away crying then after an hour or so, ran over and bit the bum out of the kid's pants.
I also was in the vicinity of another Fraser reported attack many years ago, when some English kids were bitten. What I saw was some kids chasing/playing with 4 pups with a bitch looking on . Doesn't take much of a stretch to conclude that a kid may have caused a pup to cry or carry it too far from mum.

So I don't blame Dingos unreservedly. It is often people who cause the problem and they are not the ones who then get shot unfortunately.
Regards Philip A

A follow-up to the news item.

On Nine news it paints a different story

Wonder which is the truth

Nine News take on it

I think what Bruce said above is very pertinent................
.............."These are wild animals and should be treated as such."

I first saw the risk with these dingoes on Fraser Island 25 years ago when a pair were intently watching my four year old son at our campsite. Even then people were feeding these "lovely doggies". Not us.

AND, on the same trip, I was chased by a very large aggressive goanna when I tried to shoo it away from advancing on our picnic table. It too knew where food could be had!

I don't trust any wild animals........... not even Taipans!

Okay lets agree to disagree on labels lets say if your really interested get yourself on a good science site and find that there has been some great research and there is indicators to follow that give you an idea what is say a
' dingo' at least 5 at of 10 indactators but no brindle heads or spots and definitely no barking or fat ones. After that lets say the rest are 'wild dogs' and should be feared even more, it's simply a different kind of dog. I work and live with dingos not a bad batch getting more and more good indicators each puping. Why, well there is no domestic dog influence here anymore.There would have been domestic dog influences in the dingo on Fraser just less than maybe anywhere else. Personally I lost count of the domestic dogs I saw coming on Fraser mainly by boaties than campers. We use to point them out to National Parks but they were to busy running home not alot of passion for their work. Maybe if they had more thought on the fence instead of fencing people maybe it should have been the dingo should have had their own resort away from people and their bad habits. They are curious, mischievous and no I wouldn't let a small child wander of on their own as I wouldn't let them swim in the ocean on Fraser to be eaten by the sharks or run over by the 4WD. I had trouble dealing with the highway from hell as an adult. I f you want to let your children run free in the bush as I did myself I guess it's a bit of pot luck whether they come out in one piece or not and your responsibilty not the dingo if they are hurt.