Australian Dingo

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Height: 20-24''
Weight: 30-65lbs
Country of Origin: Asia
Family: Pariah
Dingoes originate from pariah dogs that migrated from Asia to Australia. After the aborigines destroyed everything in Australia, dingoes were the nail in the coffin for the vulnerable animals remaining. They are now an Australian native animal that lives solo or in packs. They hunt piglets, calves, sheep, deer, kangaroo, feral cats, rabbits and other small animals.
Dingoes come in various colors, contrary to popular belief: 

Some dingoes that live in the cold have a husky appearance, some look like kelpies, others look like dutch shepherds.
These dingoes that are colored differently are massacred in the name of ''dingo purity'' under the guise they are feral dogs, which they are, but all dingoes are. Feral dogs are a natural part of the Australian environment, and the government persecutes them as much as possible sadly.
The argument for dingoes to be named ''Canis dingo'' won't help, it will only help orange dingoes, and it's not grounded in science, but a desperate move to try and protect dingoes. Only dingoes that look like ''dingoes'' however.

[Hardcastle]

Sometimes I like to check in with old tymey testimonies, to offer a different perspective. I think it's valuable, often more valuable, so long as you have the knowledge to interpret what they say properly and quickly dismiss their obviously ignorant mistakes-

A testimony of dingoes and other general dogs encountered in the pacific in the early 1800s-

Mr Foster says that the "dogs of the south sea islands are of a singular race; they mostly resemble the common cur, but have prodigiously large heads, remarkably little eyes, pricked ears, long hair, and short bushy tails. They are chiefly fed with fruit at the Society Isles and New Zealand, where they are the only domestic animals -— but they can also live upon fish. They are exceedingly stupid, and seldom or never bark; they only howl now and then."

New Holland dog- Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of dogs (1829)

Lol

So basically what they are saying is the dingo and pariah dogs of various pacific islands are all basically the same animal. I agree, it's THE primitive dog from before the agricultural revolution. They notice the similarity. It's true that pariah dogs all evolved distinct from the wolf to be better able to tolerate a variety of food, and can now subsist off fruits and vegetables if necessary, supplemented by meat they catch themselves (the writers here don't necessarily see that, only see people tossing them some fruit here or there, and rarely some fish remains, so they assume that's all they eat, knowing that THEIR dogs only eat what they are fed).
"Exceedingly stupid" is why I laughed. This would conflict dramatically with modern common knowledge that dingoes are very smart, but it also does not conflict with it, because people from that time had a different vision of what "smart and dumb" meant in a dog. Most of my relatives still subscribe to the old way of thinking, including my dad who I just can't seem to convince a dog can be both annoying and disobedient and intelligent at the same time. His brain genuinely can't even compute that concept. The less biddable and trainable, the dumber the dog, end of story. And that's all we are seeing here. A dingo DOES seem really fucking "stupid" if you are expecting a dog to be trained and obedient. Their aloof independence would be seen as "stupid" in the 1800s, makes perfect sense to me.

The no barking and only using howling and "yodelling" vocalisations is just consistent with all old primitive dogs. "Barking" is naturally actually a puppy behaviour, so adult dogs didn't used to bark at all for the vast majority of dog history. Eventually that neotenous trait was favoured among dogs for the "alarm" perks it offered.

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The less biddable and trainable, the dumber the dog, end of story.

IMO obedience and defiance/belligerence in dogs is similar to breaking a horse who refuses to be tamed.

[Hardcastle]

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Jul 4, 2023 23:05:01 GMT Hardcastle said:

How do you rate Kangoroos for quarry? Are they dangerous? And dangerous to humans? I imagine their kick could be lethal. The commentary in that video was horrendous lol. 

[Hardcastle]

Very overrated. Fast, and good staying power in the chase, difficult to catch, but not difficult to kill and don't actually pose much risk at all.

The one thing they can really do is drown dogs, they retreat waist high into water and then do that headlock and hold the dog under. But the danger of the kick and all that is basically BS.

I watched it on silent before, lol, yeah it's weird how no one is ever going for the canine. I feel like when cats attack things people support them but get annoyed when dogs (and hyenas) attack things.