Dingo Diary

Always something going on here . you cant even go to the toilet.
One of those days .
hell of a racket going on out side . and you realise you have to get out there but your body says .nup not finished .
By now stess is high panic sets in the noise is worse yipping howling snuffing have to get out there . stupid body
Eventually im free. race out side, omg thankful for security run ,
brahmani has chewed through her gate . oh yeah she racing up and down showing off to all who want to kill her . and yay still cant catch me she says,
I grab brahmani put her in her pen . hadnt realised she chewed the gate . and shes out again . oh for gods sake give me a break
Of course it then becomes obvious . well now what ?
Ok talk calm keep her calm . quietly urge her to come with me . we get inside and bloody 6 dingoes are frothing at the mouth , oops not a good idea .jedda in the bedroom trying to pull the door apart .
So we head for the end room . praying she doesnt decide to chew through the wall .
I race our find some mesh and spend an hour trying to wire up this damn gate , do you recon the wire will give me a break ? Not bloody likely , managed to fix hopefully keep her in .
I come inside to be greeted with , snarls and bloody jedda come out of the room like a freight train . “where is her i kill her now” frothing at the mouth , calm her take her out and now to deal with the other irate dingoes ,
Yep gota share all that dingo love

Sincere apologies for delay in thanking
Chris O’Bryan South Street Pet Supplies for meat for dingoes .
thank you so much .

Ok busy long day , anyway miss Nowra, was just so damn good , normal huff here puff there , and she did pee and poo on me but that to is normal cos she don’t like hoomans
Nowra had her vaccination ( again) wormed again now micro chipped so she now is family .
Her teeth are indeed not good , but this could be due to lack of nutrition insufficient diet needs when born , vets agree she would have been roughly 4 weeks when she arrived, she has been here since mid September almost 6 weeks , only now are her second teeth about to come through .
If only 4 weeks on arrival that seriously throws out the whelping dates , it was believed she was 3 months, so she is very much a late born given there are people who, due to their research really assess the birth rates and times for that area .
Certainly all I knew now seems to be not as I knew .. ( does that make sense?)

Nowra settled really well remained calm untill I showed signs of irritation when discussing dingo issues dingo politics ect , ( yep all that crap that pisses me off ) then and only then did she really start to show anxiety ,
( so one neeeds to keep emotions under control when handling our dingo , they are very perceptive )

Bonnie was really anxious for some crazy reason she thinks I will leave her , ( not on your life nor mine bonnie would I ever leave you )
Im chatting to the vet explaining how jedda is starting to bully bonnie , jedda sleep on my bed bonnie has her mattress next to the bed , jedda gets off the bed glares at bonnie , whereby bonnie gets up head down and lays on the floor ,bonnie will not engage in altercation .
jedda now has a choice ,my bed or Bonnie’s bed , nasty wee bitch , a case of bonnie is not well, she has sore hips and now the dingo bitch decides, bonnie is the weak link, typical dingo behaviour ( not on my watch ) bonnie has been a mum and more to jedda , some respect please .
So a lot of Bonnie’s problems are depression anxiety and fear , gona stop right now .
Any way while talking about it , it became obvious the reasons for why, which will now be brought under control.
No bullies in my house .
Bonnie will have pain meds and will be reassessed In 4 weeks . Thankfully nothing serious ( that we could determine)
Nowra has a big girl collar, pretty mauve , really proud of my wild child today , but of course it helps when you have exceptional vets ,
thanks girls at Kenwick , thanks too for the privilege of time to pay .

Miss Nowra and bonnie attending vet today .Bonnie hasn’t been well, she has been depressed and aloof , she avoids Nowra and hangs back from interaction with her best friend Burra.
Bonnie has reasonable days but then slips back , not sure what ails her ,now 9 I guess I must expect her age to be a factor , albeit all prior have been from 15 to 19 , so her and I have had a talk , I tell her she has another 9 years in her and how lost I would be with out her , not to mention her ability to calm the most upset contrary dingo that comes into our care .
Nowra has a broken tooth , have no idea how or when but I notice some look unhealthy , she is loosing her baby teeth but we need healthy gums for her new real ones , bonnie being with her hopefully will keep her calm , Nowra having turned into a hate human girl ( except her mum and dad ) .
Every thing goes wrong at the same time , hot water system just blew up ,car battery ( new ) needs replacing .
Working every hour to get the pens up , for pindan Mirrhi arana and indeed miss Nowra, still short a few pens , Django has waited patiently .

Massive thanks to Pearl Ngatai Bret , Craig ,John , so much help you have given us , bloody hard work and stinking hot yet you give up your time off to help , …thanks just isn’t enough ,
Thanks young Joe and his friend ( for being a great help amusing pindan and Nowra) great couple of boys keen to learn about dingoes .

If you would like to help please donate to assist with vets , and to finished much ergently required pens .

well today I grabbed miss nowra by the scruff of her neck with my teeth and shook her , [ i was on my hands and knees when she decided she was going to rip my hair out pull off my face ,you know all normal dingo behaviour] , horrified you may be , little wee girl has an attitude from hell .
so after the initial shock of this human doing a dingo mum thingy on her , she jumped back and came at me like a little bull , oh dear , gave her a hug and calmed her down , then she took after bonnie , biting and growling trying her little dingo act on , so bonnie sat on her . she was then more respectful of poor bonnie , who i might add has the patience of a saint with these dingo kids .
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Wee Nowra as small and fragile ,is very selective in who she permits to hold her , already she hides from that which confuses her ,
Snuffs and yips at strange things , and too, already she has her routine ,.
She happily trots over to the paddock, she runs and plays with bonnie , she then goes to the gate and makes her way down a bit of a track to another paddock , again she digs and and examines every thing , from there she heads to another paddock this has got lots of exciting smells , she grabs snails and eats them , she eats charcoal, pulls at the bark and eats that she likes the wild oats .she will graze on different grass ,
Digs for worms , rolls if foul smelling dead leaves .
The thing with dingoes is routine , every thing is a map in their mind , every path is well noted and constant .a safe route .
Habit and routine, not hard to track a dingo due to this behaviour, every day at the same time they will walk a familiar path .
Every one they associate with , must be a constant , change and unfamiliar settings and people create anxiety and insecurity . This anxiety and insecurity can create a chain reaction where by they will then retaliate or simply go into to a depression of none acknowledgement . They turn off .( self preservation)
We had visitors last weekend and Burra feels safe in his crate, but will not venture out while strange people are here .
For 2 days following we had to coax him out while he tentatively sought to be sure no one else was here , even when taking him to his favorite place he had to be convinced all was as it should be .
It is not just a particular dingo it is all dingoes, more noted in wild born .
Hense my concern and indeed my reasons for being extremely astute in finding a dingo the right home ,
They do not cope with constant change , they bond with one and one only ( family ) should that family separate the dingo will suffer as any child , abandonment issues, resentment ,fretting, depression .
A few here came from disruptive or broken homes , one has to be a councilor to understand the many emotional upheaval the dingo goes through .
So again I advice if you choose to live with a dingo , it is a life time commitment one the must be honoured , no different than a child .