An old bloke down the road has a pure alpine dog, it's getting on a bit now, but he used to walk it EVERY day, you'd see him all the time, walking the dingo, stick in hand...my kids nicknamed him "the dingo man"..... he told me the stick was to fend off other dogs, as apparently most took a strong dislike to his dog...he also had to go to some trouble to keep it, as it started jumping over his 6 foot colorbond fence with some ease, it was going to have it put down as he didn't want to put his neighbours out with new fences ect.. but luckily his neighbours were in love with the dog and encouraged him to put up a 8 foot cyclone mesh fence inside his colorbond one..and all lived happily ever after... though now he walks a airedale terrier so I'm not sure if his dingo is still kicking..