01-5-2012 at 5:13 PM

Sorry Tiger

01-5-2012 at 4:14 PM

Jingle, the conversation is allowed to continue.

12-30-2011 at 9:38 PM

As I\'ve said, I was wrong. i got wrong info

12-30-2011 at 9:34 PM

It\'s actually very easy for dingoes and feral dogs to interbreed. Very few wild dingoes are actually dingoes on Mainland Australia, except for isolated populations, because of the amounts of feral dogs interbreeding with them. <br /> <br /> I have known several dingoes and dingo crosses kept as pets. Not all of them are bed or den aggressive. <br />

12-17-2011 at 7:37 PM

What state do you live in Queen? Or country? Is it liscensed?

12-17-2011 at 7:31 PM

I own a Dingo, her name is Rylee, and I love her so much. She is the best well behaved dog I have ever known.

12-13-2011 at 12:51 PM

Publishing misinformation is remarkably easy.

12-12-2011 at 4:43 PM

I had originally read this info from a book. I have a book on dog breeds and it said dingos are the only purebreeds left in the world.

12-10-2011 at 8:47 PM

<i>"Okay, okay. I'm wrong. But it's rare for a dingo to breed with a domestic dog OUTSIDE of captivity."</i><br /> <br /> Do you have a source for this? I'm very curious. The only thing I could find about that was this...<br /> <br /> "The interbreeding of dingoes with other domestic dogs is an ongoing process affecting the population of free ranging domestic dogs in Australia. The current population of free ranging domestic dogs in Australia is now probably higher than in the past. However, the proportion of the so-called "pure" dingoes (dogs with exclusively dingo-ancestry) has been in the decrease over the last few decades and is regarded as further decreasing." - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_of_dingoes_with_other_domestic_dogs">Source</a><br /> <br /> That would mean that most of the dingos are actually hybrids. So what would prevent them from breeding with other (regular) dogs?

12-8-2011 at 4:22 PM

<i>Until 2004 the dingo was classified as "Lower Risk/least concern" on the Red List of Threatened Species, but in that year they changed the assessment to vulnerable, as the number of "pure" dingoes had decreased to about 30% because of interbreeding with other domestic dogs. </i> From Wikipedia</b><br /> Okay, okay. I'm wrong. But it's rare for a dingo to breed with a domestic dog OUTSIDE of captivity.<br /> <i>Dingoes can be very tame when they come in frequent contact with humans. Furthermore there were and are dingoes that live with humans (due to practical, as well as emotional reasons). It is known that many indigenous Australians and early European settlers already lived alongside dingoes. Alfred Brehm reported dingoes that were completely tame and, in some cases, behaved exactly like other domestic dogs (one was used for shepherding heavy livestock), as well as of specimens that remained wild and shy. He also reported of dingoes that were aggressive and completely uncontrollable, but was of the opinion that these reports "should not get more attention than they deserve", since the behaviour depends on how the dingo was raised since early puppyhood. He also believed that these dogs could become very decent pets. </i>From Wikipedia<br> That's the only reason why they are not purebreeds. Im wrong. This topic has officialy lost meaning.

12-8-2011 at 9:40 AM

Two of the behaviors you listed about how to tell if your dog is part dingo apply to every dog breed. All dogs form packs with their human owners. My Greyhound considered us her pack. My Greyhound was also very protective of her bed - she didn't want you on it and would growl at you if you sat down on it while she was laying there. This must be a learned behavior from their track days, because most Greyhounds have this behavior. After time, she learned that we weren't there to bother her and stopped reacting like this, though she did glare at us occasionally. This doesn't mean my purebred racing Greyhound was part dingo - it means she was a dog.<br /> <br /> Also, while the origins of today's purebred dogs <i>are</i> mixed breeds, they're considered purebred today because they no longer mix breeds to achieve a particular result. Now we're able to breed a beagle with a beagle and get a beagle.

12-8-2011 at 5:19 AM

<i>"The Australian Dingo or Warrigal is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to their wild Asian gray wolf parent species, Canis lupus."</i><br /> <br /> - Except from wikipedia. <br /> <br /> You're contradicting yourself saying that dingoes are purebred and yet you say that no dog is truly purebred. Dingoes, wolves and modern day dogs all evolved from a common ancestor. <br /> <br /> Dingoes were brought to Australia; they aren't a native species. People brought them there and over time they became a feral species capable of surviving independently. <br /> <br /> <i>"The only way to know if your dog is half dingo or a wolf dog is if they regerjatate food to pups, are aggresive of their beds and form a pack out of their owners which mostly means their owners are the alphas."</i><br /> <br /> Uhhh, no. If a dog is aggressive about it's bed, that's a problem. I don't care what type of dog you have, if your dog is doing that it means they're not getting proper training and discipline. Any dog with even a hint of a dominant streak will do that if you allow it to.<br /> <br /> That is not grounds to say whether a dog is a wolf or dingo cross at all. While some of the key factors in identifying a true wolfdog are behavioral, the majority of the defining features are physical, or in other words show up in the dog's appearance.<br /> <br /> I own a wolfdog who is about 60-80% Vancouver Island wolf, and he is not aggressive or protective over his bed. His mother did not regurgitate food, because in a situation where food is plentiful and the mother does not have to hunt, that simply isn't necessary or practical. Any stray dog who has to hunt or scavenge for food will do that. It does NOT mean they are part wolf or dingo.<br /> <br /> I really suggest you do some reading about these things before trying to convince people that your words are the truth. Misinforming people is not helpful and it doesn't make you look cool. ;)