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  • Mt Hart Dingoes
  • You never own a dingo, they choose to stay with you. The rewards are immense - to see their interactions with each other, the bush and with their human companions. In the wild, dingoes have learnt over the thousands of years they have been in Australia to live in harmony with nature, and they do far more good than harm, by keeping down the feral fox’s, rabbits, piglets and cats. 

  • The pure wild dingo is naturally shy and reserved and will avoid human contact, usually running from people and vehicles on sight. Wild dingoes do not  normally travel or hunt in packs - they are solitary animals that are normally territorial with eachother. The pups leave their family at around 6 months of age, when they are hunted out of the territory by their mother or father to find some country of their own. A genetic marker has proven dingoes are a separate species to the wolf, and that they evolved 135 000 years ago.

  • Kimberley wild dingo

  • The dingo needs to be given a chance....people in Australia need to realise the truth about dingoes before they have all been shot, or poisoned. Since the 1960's, needless persecution of the species has occurred – This persecution has been fuelled by the Australian media, with their exaggerated and biased stories which only ever depict the dingo as an aggressive animal that attacks people.

  • If the dingo is not recognised as a 'native' animal of Australia and preserved accordingly, the species will become extinct within the immediate future. Factors contributing to the demise of the dingo include regular 1080 baiting programs around pastoral stations and within national parks throughout Australia, hybridization with domestic dogs, as well as the destruction and clearing of habitats. But perhaps the most destructive common force working against the dingo is the persecution of the entire species because of a handful of attacks on humans in recorded history (compared with 10000-15000 dog attacks each year). 

  • If the dingo becomes extinct we will all loose a part of our Australian heritage, aboriginal folk law and culture, as well as our top land predator and the bio-diversity of our Australian habitats.

  • Mt Hart Dingo Pups
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