Dingo on Fraser Island

A dingo was hanging around our camp on Fraser Island

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dingo
• fraser
• island
• wild
• dog

[beakill]

its suprising dingo's have lasted so long on the island,theres no animals there that a dingo would usually hunt for on the mainland.

better to feed em at a feeding station than let em die out.

[breakmyface]

I agree. Stop the campers from feeding them and stick to the stations only.

[breakmyface]

feeding stations away from public is a grat idea.

[breakmyface]

yeah he's a bit skinny. See the bit where he is walking down the boatramp and trips. Then he looks around to see if anyone was looking. It's so funny.

[Rinkul]

My first dog was a dingo. Very sweet, but my parents had to put her down after she bit a pregnant lady who entered our backyard while nobody was there. Otherwise my dad (who is not a citizen) would have gotten his green card removed. :( i miss her.

[echosmum]

@janetlw Sanctuaries around australia asked for the dogs when the fences went up. DERM chose instead to send rangers in and they shot every dingo within the fenced area, Rangers complaining about the treatment of the dingoes have lost their jobs on fraser.

[echosmum]

@gillianking You are truly a victim of media lies-as a local of fraser I can assure you that dingo culls do happen. They use a 22 rifle. And during denning season when the pups are too young to leave the den "selective burn offs"are organised at known den sites. Have you ever heard puppies screaming as they burn alive? Usually mum dies too as she refuses to leave them,the rest of the family unit mourn for days and weeks after.

[echosmum]

@magikempress ignorance is bliss. People on fraser have fed dingoes since the original selections taken in 1935 FACT until DERM banned feeding and removed all food sources. There were no attacks between 1935 and the day of DERM taking over. FACT. I am a local and have spent many years with the dingoes of fraser people making wild statements like yours help to demonise a gentle animal that has co habited with humans for over 1000 years. GET EDUCATED don't listen to sensationalist journalism.

[echosmum]

@breakmyface THERE ARE NO FEEDING STATIONS- The queensland gov. have a policy to starve them all so the tourists can feel safe. The natural food sources are gone due to the gov. Until the gov stepped in there were NO dingo attacks on fraser. The death of a lad in 2001 was due to the dingo's tooth severing an artery. The victim was throwing rocks etc at the dogs and the juvenile dog nipped him.

[DeVinE696]

i have a pedigry dingo, 3 quater's alpine 1 quater tropical her name is shyla, very loyal and cute they eat anything they can live of cricket's and lizard's that's what shyla was eating befor i got her of these dodgy breeder's they had alot of dingo's poorly looked after.

[magikempress]

Tourists feed the wild dingos, which attracts them to the camps. They are wild animals and should not be encouraged with food, much like bears in the US.

@ janetlw a dingo could attack and possibly kill a small child.

[judoisoww]

@extramural I have friends that live on Fraser island and you are right the rangers don't know shit about the dingoes and the culling of then is linked to more dingo attacks cos of the pulps not getting trained by parents. This makes ms ashamed of being ausie

[extramural]

Go bury your head in the sand. Who told you this? There was a big cull recently, your out of touch. The Rangers I spoke too don't have a clue what to do and are only yes men to other departments and don't have a say in the matter. The Gov tries to fix the problem like it always dose, half arsed...

[gillianking]

There is lots of food for the dingoes - they live on bandicoots, lizards, small critters of all kinds. Without them, there would be a bandicoot population explosion!