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- Doggers are
always matching their wits against dingoes, they are worthy adversaries,
men who have been doggers all their lives still find new challenges,
because every dog has different ways and different tricks.
- Dingoes are a pretty
animal, and they’re not at all vicious, not even in a trap. They’re too
good for men. I don’t think we’ll ever skin them out. Ever.
- Trapping and baiting
of dingoes provide a back up to the physical barrier of the dog fence,
but there is speculation that the Government will bow to pressure from
environmentalists to outlaw steel-jawed traps and the poison 1080. If
that happens there will be even more pressure on the ageing fence;
alternatives must be found while there is still time.
- Old dingoes that could
not run roos down would take the easy way out and kill and eat sheep.
- Older and smarter
dingoes are very difficult to poison, younger and inexperienced dogs may
take baits.
- Clever dingoes have an
uncanny ability to locate and avoid traps.
- In a lot of cases if a
dog takes a bait or gets caught in a trap it is because he is basically
curious more than careless.
- Before settlement
dingoes fed on marsupials from mice to kangaroo, supplemented by
lizards, birds, insects, the rabbit provided unlimited food source,
hence the roos increased as settlers cleared and provided more watering
points.
- Sheep brought the
dingo into conflict with graziers as a new food supply.
- Problem with sheep the
dingoes would also kill them for play. The dogs played a malevolent game
with them.
- The dingoes kill
sheep, a bitch teaching her pups to kill; the pups would enjoy a game,
the sheep run, and bleat, and mill around, when the game was over 50 or
so sheep would be dead or maimed.
- A dogger watched a
bitch purposefully chew her way through the barrier fence.
For overseas
readers a “Dogger” is a professional dog trapper |
