It has been said that dingoes with sable coats can’t be ‘real’ dingoes, and are heavily targeted by Government agencies, recreational shooters and hunters. There is indisputable evidence to the contrary, both with animals like these who have been tested and analysed in the present, and the remains of dingoes killed prior to domestic dog exposure in the 1900s. 

This girl is a rescue needing assistance, she has been hand raised and is under a year old, but her owner is unwell and is looking to rehome her. She is a tropical type dingo from far North Queendland, and the lady organising her rescue doesn’t want much information about her publicly disclosed. If anyone knows of someone interested in fostering her or possibly adopting her, please contact me and I’ll pass you on to her. This girl is also proof again of the diversity in the morphology of this species, and she has been genetically proven to be just a dingo for those who are skeptical. 

Always interesting to see brindle dingoes. This one is tracked by Guy Ballard, who leads a research team with UNE in New England NSW, which is my university. It’s still unclear as to whether brindle dingoes have no domestic ancestry, it could go either way. It could be that there are simply no brindle pelts or taxidermy animals from the 19th C (prior to dogs having contact with dingoes), but this doesn’t mean that they weren’t there. It can also be argued that this coat pattern, as much as any, have evolved to suit the landscape. As any current research has also shown, simple word of mouth assumptions just aren’t credible when it comes to what a dingo does and doesn’t look like based on coat colour to the exclusion of all other factors. If this were the case, taxonomic case studies woudn’t have found that sable, brown, pied or cream dingoes were found to be as genetically valid as traditional ginger and black and tan coloured animals. These traditional beliefs and bias has also led to a culling of dingoes not considered to be “real” dingoes, leaving those who are ginger with white points, black and tan and white to survive and breed.