The only way to reverse our declining environment is to reintroduce Dingoes and restore the balance that was perfectly held for 10 or more thousand years before eradication.
I saw a Dingo bound across the Sturt hwy, Nullabour straight in front of me... would have been an adult as it only took two touches on the road to speed across it to the other side.. disappeared very quickly.. amazing strength and agility.. 🐕 💨💨
Does this kind of video mean that people become less wary of the dingo in the wild ? I am mindful of the fact that several dingos have been destroyed on K'gari (Fraser Island). The uninformed public sees domesticated dingos like yours being treated like domestic dogs This might create a misconception about the interface with wild dingos and tourists try to get too friendly and individual dingos losing their healthy respect for distance from invading tourists, leading to their own downfall for not behaving predictably. I did not watch your whole video, you (hopefully) dealt with this issue in the body of your publication but I am responding to the very cutesy images at the start and end of the video. The image works very much more on the viewer than any discussion can.
Great comment. We are very mindful of this, it’s a double edged sword. To give you some background we conduct educational wildlife shows in the northern nsw area. Warragul and Dundee (our two alpine dingoes) are on our demonstrators licence. So we must aline with regulations set but the licensee in nsw and have approved training/demonstration procedures just to do what we do with them. When we take them to shows our main aim is to explain the difference between a dingo and a dog and the role they play in our environment. Mind you people see a very well behaved and stress free dingo in these situations, as we have put many hours into them so they can do this job, so naturally people believe that’s how dingoes can act/they could “own” a dingo too. Even if we advise them of the work we have done. At the end of the day dingo education is quite a new thing, in the forms of social media and live demonstrations. So I’m sure the best way to education on this topic will evolve over time and we are all here for it. I should note in our demonstrations our dingoes are never handled or touched by anyone else but us. This is for a few reasons but mostly to give people the understanding that these aren’t a domestic dog.
