Dingo Diary

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 .