Captive dingoes
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Kept as a pest species in Queensland which means they are not recognised as an indigenous animal. Zoos and parks are not allowed to breed them.
'police and rspca officials today discovered a man keeping a camel in a Melbourne flat.. when questioned, the man could only say- I've always wanted a camel....'
ha ha ha!
no that wasn't me. whilst i certainly live in melbourne and have nothing but a small terrace to call home, i have so far managed to deny my urges to upgrade past fish as pets. the family dog sometimes comes visits - but thats about it.
there are no camels in my house..................but i'm thinking maybe a banteng.
no that wasn't me. whilst i certainly live in melbourne and have nothing but a small terrace to call home, i have so far managed to deny my urges to upgrade past fish as pets. the family dog sometimes comes visits - but thats about it.
there are no camels in my house..................but i'm thinking maybe a banteng.
Sometimes I wonder about myself..
just been leafing through some old photos, and I not only saw a wild Dingo but I photographed it crossing the road- somewhere near Ayers Rock.photo
Your very lucky. Its very difficult to see wild dingoes.
Any chance you could post that picture on here? I would love to see it!
Sometimes I wonder about myself..
Your very lucky. Its very difficult to see wild dingoes.
Any chance you could post that picture on here? I would love to see it!
thedingolives
New Member
Dingos in Captivity
I have 2 alpine females & 1 Alpine Male DNA tested 100% in Greenough Wildlife Park WA Greenough Wildlife & Bird Park
Also have 1 Desert dingo Male
I have 2 alpine females & 1 Alpine Male DNA tested 100% in Greenough Wildlife Park WA Greenough Wildlife & Bird Park
Also have 1 Desert dingo Male
I just spent 4 days on Fraser Island. All except one settlement area now has full 6 foot fencing and electrified grids to prevent dingos entering them. I think it is Happy valley which is still not fully fenced, due to complaints from residents. This is the oldest township area on the island and the residents do not want to be surrounded by a fence.
After a boy was killed buy dingos there they shot all the habituated dingos. They now believe there is about 100 dingos on the island. Where I stayed on the west side a female dingo searched the beach for food daily at low tide. She came to within a couple of meters of people on the beach but was wary. When a ranger walked towards her she bolted as the rangers chase them to keep them from getting to used to people. The dingos now know the rangers uniforms and steer well clear of anyone in karkee.
I found it interesting that there was noticeably more bandicoot diggings inside the fence compared to outside. The bandicoots must be breeding and surviving much better where dingos are excluded.
The day I left a boy was attacked buy a dingo on the beach on the other side of the island while his father was fishing. I don't believe he was hurt to badly as I have heard nothing about this since. There is nothing managers can do about this if people want to be in the environment with dingos. Dingos will always be predators and take advantages of opportunities, if people go into a predators habitat they must be responsible for their actions and live with the consequences.
After a boy was killed buy dingos there they shot all the habituated dingos. They now believe there is about 100 dingos on the island. Where I stayed on the west side a female dingo searched the beach for food daily at low tide. She came to within a couple of meters of people on the beach but was wary. When a ranger walked towards her she bolted as the rangers chase them to keep them from getting to used to people. The dingos now know the rangers uniforms and steer well clear of anyone in karkee.
I found it interesting that there was noticeably more bandicoot diggings inside the fence compared to outside. The bandicoots must be breeding and surviving much better where dingos are excluded.
The day I left a boy was attacked buy a dingo on the beach on the other side of the island while his father was fishing. I don't believe he was hurt to badly as I have heard nothing about this since. There is nothing managers can do about this if people want to be in the environment with dingos. Dingos will always be predators and take advantages of opportunities, if people go into a predators habitat they must be responsible for their actions and live with the consequences.
It is very unlikely that a dingo would attack an adult and even if they did I recon most people could beat the dingo. I just read about a recent attack in South Africa buy a leopard and the person killed killed it with his bare hands, so a dingo should be easy. Children are the only ones in danger if they are not supervised. The child who was attacked recently was not close enough to his father to prevent the attack but close enough to save. One afternoon on Fraser Island I walked about 12 km buy myself and feel perfectly safe.
mstickmanp
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Here in california if a person is hiking they have the danger of bumping into a Mountain Lion. Every time I hear about a Mountain Lion attack, most of the time the person ends up dead or badly hurt to the point that nobody recognizes them. That person that killed the leopard must have been strong cause I'm sure leopards are way stronger than Mountain lions.
Here is the story, this hapened about 2 weeks ago in South Africa.
On the way to the airport, my cook told me that she saw a cheetah next to the road. I reversed, tried to see something, but could not see anything. Then my client alerted me to a leopard that ran across the road about 150 yards in front of us. Thinking that it may have been this leopard that my cook saw (remember, in Afrikaans they call a leopard a tier (tiger), and a cheetah a jagluiperd, (literally a hunting leopard)), I got out of the car to go and look for tracks (without a gun, first mistake). We found a young female leopard lying under a nearby (25 yards) bush, about 60 yards from the car. My client took this picture, and we decided to retreat. One of my trackers, moved about 10 yards to the left, presumably to get a better view. I called him back, telling him that the cat will feel cornered, and that we should really get the hell out of there. He sneaked another look, and I called him again. When he started to move back, the cat charged, and about every one ran for the vehicles. I thought that if I stood my ground, the cat would maybe turn. I reckoned that if I turned and ran as well, that the cat will catch one or more of us before we reach the vehicle. In these split seconds, it is amazing how much time I seem to have had to think! My next thought was to bend down and try and pick up some of the bigger rocks lying around, to maybe throw it at the cat, but my head told me that it will be a bad idea to loose eye contact with the oncoming cat. When she came at me, I kicked her, and with this, she got a hold of my leg with her front claws, and bit me where my buttocks and my leg come together. I went down on her, struggling to wrestle her into a pin down position. Luckily for me, her left back leg was pinned underneath her body when I took her down. I grabbed hold of her right rear leg, and received a few nice scratches for my trouble. I pinned her neck with my left fore-arm, and grabbed first one front leg and then the other with my left hand. I leaned all of my weight into her neck area, trying to suffocate her. This pissed her off tremendously, and made me glad that I had a weight advantage! One of my trackers shouted “Het die baas hom gevang?” (Did you catch it?) from the vehicle, to which I replied something like “Yes, F#@K, come and help me!!!” When 2 of them came to help me, the cat was luckily already dying, but to make sure, I asked one to keep the head down for me, and we ran a knife into the heart of the cat. I got up, virtually in one piece, (I had 27 scratch and bite marks in a fight that lasted less than 1 second), and sighed a big sigh of relief. Luckily the client was a doctor, and he could patch me up out of my emergency kit. I went for tetanus and rabies shots as well, and I am still swallowing my antibiotics.
On the way to the airport, my cook told me that she saw a cheetah next to the road. I reversed, tried to see something, but could not see anything. Then my client alerted me to a leopard that ran across the road about 150 yards in front of us. Thinking that it may have been this leopard that my cook saw (remember, in Afrikaans they call a leopard a tier (tiger), and a cheetah a jagluiperd, (literally a hunting leopard)), I got out of the car to go and look for tracks (without a gun, first mistake). We found a young female leopard lying under a nearby (25 yards) bush, about 60 yards from the car. My client took this picture, and we decided to retreat. One of my trackers, moved about 10 yards to the left, presumably to get a better view. I called him back, telling him that the cat will feel cornered, and that we should really get the hell out of there. He sneaked another look, and I called him again. When he started to move back, the cat charged, and about every one ran for the vehicles. I thought that if I stood my ground, the cat would maybe turn. I reckoned that if I turned and ran as well, that the cat will catch one or more of us before we reach the vehicle. In these split seconds, it is amazing how much time I seem to have had to think! My next thought was to bend down and try and pick up some of the bigger rocks lying around, to maybe throw it at the cat, but my head told me that it will be a bad idea to loose eye contact with the oncoming cat. When she came at me, I kicked her, and with this, she got a hold of my leg with her front claws, and bit me where my buttocks and my leg come together. I went down on her, struggling to wrestle her into a pin down position. Luckily for me, her left back leg was pinned underneath her body when I took her down. I grabbed hold of her right rear leg, and received a few nice scratches for my trouble. I pinned her neck with my left fore-arm, and grabbed first one front leg and then the other with my left hand. I leaned all of my weight into her neck area, trying to suffocate her. This pissed her off tremendously, and made me glad that I had a weight advantage! One of my trackers shouted “Het die baas hom gevang?” (Did you catch it?) from the vehicle, to which I replied something like “Yes, F#@K, come and help me!!!” When 2 of them came to help me, the cat was luckily already dying, but to make sure, I asked one to keep the head down for me, and we ran a knife into the heart of the cat. I got up, virtually in one piece, (I had 27 scratch and bite marks in a fight that lasted less than 1 second), and sighed a big sigh of relief. Luckily the client was a doctor, and he could patch me up out of my emergency kit. I went for tetanus and rabies shots as well, and I am still swallowing my antibiotics.
Thanks for that. I will add it to the list.
I have now collated a list of zoos and wildlife parks around Australia which house dingoes. You can see a pdf of that list on my new website.
www.howlingdingo.org
Cheers
I have now collated a list of zoos and wildlife parks around Australia which house dingoes. You can see a pdf of that list on my new website.
www.howlingdingo.org
Cheers
Also Darling Downs Zoo with 1:1:0.
There are so many that you have missed Dingoboy but I don't have time right now to help you out. Will be back on line in a few weeks and will post more for you then.
Regards.
There are so many that you have missed Dingoboy but I don't have time right now to help you out. Will be back on line in a few weeks and will post more for you then.
Regards.