(06-22-2023, 08:38 PM)BIAD Wrote: I think we need Bally's input on this one.
Quote:DINGO HORROR
Moment wild dingo bites a sunbather’s bottom on holiday beach weeks before boy,
10, mauled and dragged into the sea
'This is the moment a dingo bit a sunbather's bum while she relaxed on the beach - just weeks before a ten-year-old
boy was dragged into the sea by one of the animals. The shocking footage shows the predator nipping the woman's
bottom as tourists are now being warned to be wary of the dangerous dogs.
I've heard of Sea Wolves, but...
The video, which is circulating online, captured the moment the animal stalked up to the bikini-clad woman before
taking a bite. The French tourist was startled and jumped up from her towel while onlookers rushed towards her.
The footage was filmed just a few weeks before a ten-year-old boy was bitten and dragged under water in a vicious
dingo attack on June 16. The attack took place on K'gari beach, Australia, less than two weeks after park rangers
euthanised another animal.
Cheers for the thought. Err, are you talking about the Dingo or the sunbather. Perhaps @"Rodinus"#19 could comment about the french lady. i may make some old fella rude comments.
I am no ways an expert on the animals but have been nipped on the back of the legs (several times) at nighttime in the desert (Central Aust) by a Dingo. Have come across them on occasions, even here on the coast where they seem to have grown in stature. (Mixed) On Fraser island where this latest nip took place, those types are, by all accounts, full blood dingoes and about the size of a medium dog.
Other dingoes I have seen close up, again in the desert, were of different colours, often grey tones but I did see a pack of sandy colored ones in company with an aboriginal elder walking through the mulga in the Tanami. They seemed very attached to him and as he wandered the dogs (half dozen or so) formed like a circle around him checking out the surrounds. Having been the taste test of many dogs I hesitate to approach anyone with a pack of those animals.
Like many creatures of the wild they become accustomed to humans, especially those who feed them and venture into camps seeking scraps etc. (or french bottoms). A wild, wary intelligent dog that will sus out the situation singularly on in a pack. Tests the waters so to say as appears in this case or in that famous matter at Ayers Rock. "A dingo took my baby". At that time I was skeptical but now I believe that could be the case. Recently a young lad was dragged underwater at Fraser by a Dingo and there has been many other cases there.
A one time there was frequent howling in the hills at the back of the property here during May at night but no so the last 2 years. But apart from being nipped I've never had serious close encounters in the bush and disregard dingoes when I see the odd one.
In Aus, to be tagged as a 'Dingo' generally means cowardly, thief or a hit and run assailant. True to the nature of this beasty.
A fellow upriver from me has some full bloods in a breeding program. Small dogs.
Not much more I could add mate. Back to cutting wood.
Kind regards,
Bally.