Meet 'Blue' An Australian Alpine Dingo

It's not often people get to see Dingo puppies - These dogs are the closest thing to 'pure-bred' as you can get - and they are also very misunderstood. Steve Austin shares some basics from a new TV documentary that is being made (2007/8)

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Pets & Animals

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• dog
• pet
• dingo

[omgitskerstin]

YOU MY BOY BLUE!!

[TickleMeHaleey]

awhh, I love him, Hes adorable `<3

[fottydot]

i have a dingo/kelpie 3 years old hes amazing hes timid but boy when u take him for walks hes like a new dog i live on a farm he loves walks very obedient great when roundin up the cows and very protective over the family especially me he sleeps on my bed i love dingos

[Conn30Mtenor]

Transplanted Canadian here - where is the best place to see wild dingoes?

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

@gromann

They can't exactly be "feralized" as they've always been a wild dog.

[IIproductionsII]

@TheFranjy Dont' worry that guy wasn't Australia, he probably has never even seen a dingo. Dinoges aren't wolves, but if you had to make a choice between a wolf or a dog, they're a wolf. They're classified as a subspecies of the wolf by the Australian government though.

[TheFranjy]

@gromann WRONG



[gethsoftware]

there is proplem thou. dingos might be in trouble bechose they are cross breeding with tame dogs, and that might ruin the "pureness" of the breed.

[IIproductionsII]

@gromann I'm not angry..

Yes but Dingoes are much more dangerous than a husky. To own them in most states in Australia you have to have an enclosure and a permit, and in other states they're banned. I know huskies and I know dingoes, they're very different in terms of behaviour, generally a stranger can walk up to a husky and pat them, dingoes are scared and will become aggressive of people they don't know. Dingoes are also more protective of houses, than the typical German Shepard.

[gromann]

@IIproductionsII makes canids unique in that they change rapidly with each generation, the dingo readapted very quickly. And to say modern dogs are not very pack oriented, if you look at say an alaskan husky, they're EXTREMELY pack oriented, do not bark, have an entirely wolf mindset, while not being so. Most sledding dogs are very primitive in their human-animal social behavior, as well as their vocal characteristics. You could have attempted a conversation, but you decided on a flame war.