We have a young dingo here , his name is Ceasar , due to a family breakdown he required urgent relocating . Sadly dingoes do not cope well when a family is divided. Not unlike children, they go through anxiety and feelings of abandonment .
However Ceasar has adapted very well and has settled in. We had hoped for a genuine loving home with dingo educated family , we also accept this may not come to pass .
Sadly we noticed Ceasar has problems in his hip and we followed through with the appropriate procedure verifying he has hip dysplasia as a result of bad breeding practices.
We realise that this depleting breeding fault may inhibit his chances of a loving home .
Unfortunately we rarely receive financial assistance and we are not in a financial position to cover such extreme cost , we manage his pain with medication both natural and prescription.
Fortunately and surprisingly a very generous caring person has offered Ceasar a second chance , a chance of a pain free life .
I would thank Belinda Fink for your amazing generosity ,your genuine concern and your love for our unique dingo .
40 years of caring for our Australian dingo I have never had such substantial assistance to help with a dingo that has come into my care , I am humbled by such generosity , as Iam sure Ceasar is .he will be howling his gratitude whilst running without pain Thank You Belinda Fink .
I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Joy Martanovic and her rescue boy Rocky for the meat you gave us for our rescue dingoes love to you both
A belated thank you to Simon Stretton Durong dingo Sanctuary for you kind donation to help whilst we had no income , thank you Simon.
Dingo Diary
Well, thats the worming done for another month. 35 worm tablets, some took them with no problems, some had to be tempted, but they are all done.. Time to stock up on worm tablets again.
precious little wild born pup
we were ready to accept this prescious little wild born pup 2 weeks ago, unfortunately unforseen circumstances delayed his arrival .
last weekend our expectation of his arrival was diminished when we were informed this wee boy was unwell , following urgent medical assistance his blood work tested positive to Parvovirus, due to his weakness and depleted imunnity any further intervention was regarded as increasing his suffering .
last weekend our expectation of his arrival was diminished when we were informed this wee boy was unwell , following urgent medical assistance his blood work tested positive to Parvovirus, due to his weakness and depleted imunnity any further intervention was regarded as increasing his suffering .
His story is not with out sadness , nor is it a happy ending , we refuse not to acknowledge his existance his suffering his passing, or those who worked to save him and attempted to entrust him to us. (for that we thank all involved )
Our pure wild dingo must be protected and respected.
For one so young to have endured such hardship in so short a time is very distressing .
dingoes are very susceptable to dog like disease , parvo distemper hepatitise and more, when taken from their natural enviroment .
Leave them in their dens , leave them to live as nature intended , they have no immunity once removed from their enviroment and while they face much adversity, they face many more trials when forced into domesticity, misunderstood, expected to behave as dogs expected to conform and obey . they are primative wild animals and freedom is their right .
May this boy`s passing not be in vain . freedom no matter how short is freedom had , a life time of oppression and restriction is not as nature intended .
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Dingo Diary
It has been a very hectic week , starting with last Tuesday, I had taken Burra over to the paddock where he happily played with his best and only friend, that being Bonnie , Burra doesn’t like dogs far less dingoes , but bonnie has a bit of both and he adores her , he also is very OCDHSS obsessive compulsive disorder with human select syndrome. In short he neither likes or trusts people .we came back and I took Pindan to the paddock, here he runs and jumps and laughs ,he then goes where every one goes same place to pee and poo ( so I can never figure how it’s claimed dingo pee is a deterrent, ) he’s squatting , deep in thought when bang ,he gets a honky nut dumped on his head, he just freezes ,he glares at me as another honky nut hits it’s mark right on his nose , this cut short his business, he runs around attempting to find the source of this attack , calms down goes back to his previous business ( doing poo ) again he gets hit , now he is not happy , we both look up at the same time as another well aimed honky nut hits him , there is a gum tree near the pen with an over hanging branch ,in the branch are 2 parrots both engrossed in dumping honky nuts , Pindan spat his dingo dummy and the birds took flight , he finished his business with a frown .We then came back ,he had his weet Bix and went to his crate , I then let Mirrhi and Arana out ,and for over an hour they trashed the house ran around squabbling with each other , having worn each other out they too had their breakfast and went back to crate. Jedda is in the bedroom , I open the door and tell her to stop messing around and get her butt off the bed I then proceed to the bathroom. Bonnie comes screaming down the hall just as I heard the guttural screaming and growling of 2 dingoes fighting , heart racing with pants around my knees I fly down the hall , Mirrhi had opened her crate as jedda came from the bedroom , have you been in this situation ? Bad enough with dogs , with the dingo there is no compromise, in a split second you attempt to assess ,attempt to find a safe way to separate, there is none . Bonnie trying to get between putting herself in danger , and me pulling bonnie away while trying desperately to get hold of one or the other , I managed to grab jedda by her collar and hold fast , but Mirrhi was beyond reason , I could not get her , ducking and diving with intent to finish what she had started , after what seemed many minutes I grabbed Mirrhi , held fast but she now had jedda in a vice like grip and was not letting go , I worked myself between and forced Mirrhi off Jedda. One doesn’t think in situations like this one just acts full of adrenalin, I stood like a scare crow , bent at the waist, jedda in the left Mirrhi on the right , me on an angle to stop eye contact between them , Mirrhi had lost any degree of calming . Still snarling , I then realised the bedroom door was open thanks to the powers that be , I then shuffled toward the door keeping arms stretched and still bent over , with one action I threw jedda and slammed the door , I then calmly frog marched Mirrhi back to her crate . From there I raced back and grabbed jedda , calming bonnie , and myself I lifted jedda into the car a raced to local vet, I don’t think vet was sure who to assess I didn’t realise I too had been bitten . I explained to vet the situation and the difficulty when treating dingoes , we managed to give jedda a injection to sedate her , after 2 hours of sitting on the floor it was obvious with adrenaline and stress jedda was not going to succumb to any thing, we muzzled her , while trying to assess her injuries , bites covered her neck and shoulders , and a 4 inch tear in her groin . Were she a dog she would have had surgery with a drain , however we decided we would put her on pain meds and antibiotics, the vet then dressed my hand , I later attended the doctor , received a lecture , and informed I have suspect broken bone in hand I too am on antibiotics , I refused an x-ray. Today a week later little worse for wear , both myself and jedda are doing OK. Sadly the line has been drawn between Mirrhi and jedda . Mirrhi was not much more than 5 weeks old when she arrived , both bonnie and jedda were her surrogate mum . I did consider not telling this story , because it was due to my few seconds of inattention , not clipping the crate . But now I feel perhaps this should be viewed as education .the dingo is not a aggressive animal , in his natural habitat he would avoid most confrontation due to survive instincts, I find the domestic bred dingo does not have these survival instincts, fight or flight , usually flight , to fight can be detrimental to survival . Animals that seemingly tolerate each other can change in a split second ,they are wild forced into domesticity caught between two worlds . Always respect and never become to complacent .
Crossroads Dingo Rescue
Cleaning and shovelling pens is some mean feat when one uses a shoulder that one is informed not to use unfortunately priority is the comfort of dingoes occupying those pens that are first and foremost , nothing a few pain relief meds wont fix ( one being myself can hope )
You can put the dingo in his crate
You can put the dingo in his crate , to seperate and rotate but you cant stop the dingo from figuring out how to bounce that crate to relocate . pindan has moved his crate from the front entrance to the fire place and there he lays snug and warm with a grin on his face .
