Dingoes?

[Megzz]

Hey

Does anyone have a pet dingo (or kept one in the past?)
I'm not looking to get one myself, my property isn't suitable along with other reasons. Just curious as to what sort of experience it is? Are they similar to dogs or completely different?

Thanks

 

[Tristan]

WA Dingo Association - dingoes

apparently they are supposed to be pretty good pets

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

we had a pet dingo when i grew up one of the best pets we had her name was HONEY as this was her colour, She would jump very high fences to get out and we could never keep her in our yard, she was extremly active in both day and night and as we lived near the beach she would canvase the beach and rocks at nite for food, she was always feed and got 1 hour walks every day but she never wore out which was a problem. She was loyal but very much a loner didnt rely soley on us all the time one of my fathers brothers was a truckie who brought her down from queensland as a pet for us and she was a owling and not PUP then but she was never a dog just to sit there for to long and enjoy our company. she loved to hunt and still had her wild instincts! dingos howl and dont bark which was pretty cool we knew it was her howling and not anotheir dog in the area.i will add that she used to digs backyard up which he spent hours every week repairing and looking after to get it golf course green and she would dig all over it. She would eat evrything and sniff it to never known not to explore the area. everybody knew her where we lived and everybody just loved her.

 

[Sapphire]

iv got a dingo X kelpie at home iv had him since he was about 10 weeks old his is now about 2 years old. his very active and does howl sometimes like a dingo. and is very protective of my mum. he wont let our 10 year old dog to close to her otherwise they start to fight. he is always full of energy and never stops digging holes. he looks exactly like a dingo just doesnt have dingo colours he is all black with a white tip on the end of his tail. he eats pretty much anything you give him his not fussed. i will try upload some photo's of him for you to see.

 

[Jungletrans]

A friend had one called Gonzo . Dug huge holes in the yard , ate his bike seat and wiring off his Harley , then ran away , YEAH .

 

[Megzz]

Thanks for the replies, they sound like great pets... well except for your friend's one Jungletrans :lol:

What happened to yours REPTILLIAN-KMAN?
http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/member/reptilian-kman-24073/

 

[dechnicz-face]

I work in a boarding kennel and we get lots of dingo x's in, they a very sweet and great looking dogs but they are very good at escaping

 

[stockhorse]

Dingoes are not good pets.

"I work in a boarding kennel and we get lots of dingo x's in, they a very sweet and great looking dogs but they are very good at escaping "

Having pure or partbreed dingoes is illegal in Qld and carries a $30,000. fine.
Perhaps you would be best to delete your post instead of putting your employers income in jeapordy and talking to them about the legalities of boarding these animals.

After more than 15 years working in dingo studies in various states with various authorities and institutions I would never have a dingo in any domestic situation as a pet.
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[Megzz]

After more than 15 years working in dingo studies in various states with various authorities and institutions I would never have a dingo in any domestic situation as a pet.

Care to share some reasons?

 

[Sapphire]

i have no regrets with getting my dingo x he was on cosignment at the petstore i worked for and was going back so i took him home and love him to bits his just so beautiful but very cheeky. his name is banjo but he just call him BJ.

 

[najanaja]

i had one as a pet(so to say) growing up in the army barrecks in Sydney..
The army trained them as sniffer dogs but they were to active and a little mischeivious...
we had her for 14 years(10 with me 4 with mum)( a bloody long time for a Dingo)
But i had to leave her with mum when i moved to Qld because the would not licience here...
This was 14 years ago now and i dont know the Qld laws regarding them now...

 

[najanaja]

Ps. she never liked our other dog but loved mums 3 cats...well 2 of them anyway

 

[Jonno from ERD]

I have worked with them, and have a mate who owns a couple of purebreds. They are absolutely amazing dogs if paired with the right type of owner (like most dogs). Paired with the wrong owner and there is a lot of potential for things to go wrong.

 

[Megzz]

Does anyone know whether they prone to biting/attacking?

 

[stockhorse]

They have an inherent unpredicability.The majority of people(those who have not worked for a very considerable amount of time with them) would not even notice behavoural changes in them.The only known pure dingoes left in Australia are on Fraser Island (although many people claim to own them.) The Gene pool known to both national and state research organisations is extremely small. The Dingo is not a dog it is a decendent from the Asian wolf and has many of the characteristics of the European and North Amercan Wolf.These other strains of Wolf also show the inherent unpredictability in trying to domesticate them.They can live in an apparent happy co-existance for many years but can at any time express their desire for dominance in both agressive and non agressive ways.

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

Hi Megzz,
Our pet Dingo HONEY died of old age she lived a good 12 years old, In NSW you can not legally own them now either to my knowledge. but that wouldnt stop me from owning one as they are a great pet.
ours used to love to play bite us and play games at mouth and jaw restling but never intentionally bite us.


hope this helps

 

[Megzz]

Thanks kman. We're allowed them in WA. I wish I could get one!

 

[smeejason]

Sat and watched 2 wild ones at work the other day. they were guarding a fresh cow carcass about 150m from were i was working. They were both beautiful specimens and were having a ball playing and chasing off the crows.
They were one animal i always loved finding while out bow hunting.. not to shoot but to follow and watch and to be followed. would regularly cut my own tracks and find fresh dog tracks or wake up and find fresh prints at my head next to my swag.

 

[waruikazi]

The one thing with them is you have to spend an awful lot of time with them. If you leave them alone for even a day or two they can revert back to being 'wild' which is a bad thing lol. They also have a lot of weird quirks, like wanting to sleep up high, climbing trees etc. I was thinking that i wanted one when i was looking for a dog so i did a lot of research on them. I came to the conclusion that they aren't really suitable as a companion animal.

 

[Megs316]

I work with two dingos. One is a pure bred alpine who was born in captivity, the other is a half breed who very little is known about. Like previously stated, it is illegal to keep dingos in QLD without proper licences [educational display, exhibitors etc]. The half-breed male was owned by a family who bought him from a NT breeder, and when he started killing all the neighbourhood ducks/geese/chicks [very natural instinct for these guys], my work ended up with him. It is a lot harder to find legal homes for half-breeds in QLD, so i implore anyone interested in getting one of these animals to check their state laws first, otherwise the animals life is at risk each and everyday. Dingos are great animals, they can be quite playful, but they are pack-animals and dominance plays a major role in their lives [they will challange your authority, its only natural...] They are trainable, but should never be completely trusted because they are a wild animal, regardless of whether they were born in captivity or not, and regardless of whether you love them and have a 'special bond' or not. They can be extremely distructive if left to their own devices for too long, and they seem to have boundless energy. They climb fences, dig holes, chew through absolutely anything [rope, hoses, hard plastic, plants...]. They are beautiful animals, and if you train them, learn to understand them and their body language, and most of all respect them for the wild animal that they are, they might not bite your face off But they are deffinately no beginners 'dog' i guess you could say.