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I live in a big city in Victoria , for many years I owned blue heelers a beautiful dog, when my last one died of cancer, I decided to get a dingo which I was interested in for a long time now. I did a lot of research reading books in my local library, watching video documentaries and even heading to the dingo farm at Castlemaine.
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It was a Saturday morning early in June 2000 when I finally made my mind up and headed off to the dingo farm on arriving to be greeted by the howls of over a hundred dingoes (truly amazing), I wanted a ginger male, Bruce the owner went out into the back room and emerge with a tiny ball of fluff who was going to be named Dann.
For the next couple of years the highs and lows of owning a dingo would turn a train trip across the Nullarbor into the world biggest roller coaster. But I learnt so much from this experience and now when I look back I just laugh at all the things that went on. Like how he would chew the most expensive computer item on my desk, just for payback (not taking him for a car ride). |
| In the end I finally realised that I had to change, not him. You must think like a dingo and keep one step ahead, lucky for us we can reach higher and you learn to put things up out of their reach, but don't forget they can climb. Its not unusual to find them high up on some piece of furniture with a look on their face saying "what's wrong" |
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I received two more dingoes in 2004 after Dann succumb to severe case of pancreatitis and passed over. This time I got a male at eight months and a female at 5 weeks, there are big advantages if you have more than one dingo, they tend to be less destructive because they have a companion to play with. My dingoes have the run of the house and sleep in my bedroom but their yard is small but secure with two gates to go through to enter the yard, they also have a pen which in Victoria is by law is a minimum of 30 sq metres.
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They become more active late afternoon to early evening when they chase each other around the yard. I have taught myself to be more aware of the noises around me and now can hear the sound of plastic being chewed while I'm working on the computer in another room. It sometime worst not hear any sound because they can go into stealth mode, so when you realise there's no sound and investigate you usually find them chewing something of value, |
for example just recently upon investigating the silence to find them both on my bed with cheeky grins on their faces and my wallet all chewed up between them, the banks hate me for replacing my cards all the time.
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I take them for regular walks around the town but always on a lead, I can never let off because they would run off and only return when they have had enough fun.
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| Finally before I go I would like to say that I would not swap one of my dingoes for all the dogs in the world, normal dogs do not come close to a dingo. If you thinking of getting a dingo, I can only say do your research, expect to have some problems but I have found out the more you put in, the more you get out of your dingoes and after owning one for a while you don't agree with me then you weren't suitable to own a dingo in the first place. |
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