Dingo Discovery Centre

There is a broad misinterpretation that the dingo was once "domestic dog" before he went wild in Australia, and really has developed from the common pye dogs of Asia. That is totally incorrect. The dingo has always been a wild canine - which developed as the wolf of Australia. Primitive peoples may have utilised puppies for whatever purpose, watch animals, food source, camp cleaners, but they did this by taking young animals from the wild. Unlike the African Wild Dog, or the Asian Dhole, both of which are older evolutionary prototypes of canidae; the dingo does not need to live in a pack and be taught to hunt to survive. The dingo has his prey drive inbuilt as instinctive behaviour. He is a natural predator animal. Pure dingoes, like wolves, are still locked in genetically to annual breeding seasons.

He also will fit in with social pack hierarchy, as does the wolf, but this is learned behaviour. Whilst the pye dogs may have a shared ancestor thousands of years ago, today they bear no family relationship with the pure Australian dingo. They are modern offshoots of mongrel crosses. If one wishes to hold a belief that a dingo is a domestic dog, then the breed is by far the oldest and purest breed in the world. Pure dingoes can never become "domesticated" while they remain pure. They are genetically locked into their primitiveness. Only by crossing with domesticated breeds can the integrity of this genetic blueprint become impaired.

However, it is rare for a dingo to accept strangers or to be secure outside of it's home environment, to which it also bonds. Dingoes are NEVER aggressive. They will always flee before confrontation, but will protect their partner or young with courage. They do not bark, but will howl melodically. They are driven by annual breeding seasons governed by cosmic conditions — male and female