(Let’s get one thing out of the way … I really do not support captive breeding of dingoes for financial reasons, “conservation” or love of the species.)
These dingoes are wild born in Queensland, and are absolutely typical of forest or coastline types. The top two images are of dingoes being legally bred in Queensland at a ‘Sanctuary’. In order for them to be bred, these animals have to be DNA tested to have no domestic dog ancestry, and meet all dingo phenotype characteristics. The following two are of sable dingoes living entirely wild on K’gari, where the Island has kept the population isolated from domestic dogs and these animals have long been labelled the “purest” population of dingoes in Australia.
The next two images are rescue dingoes in captivity, one who has been adopted into a family by a rescue group and the sibling dingoes in the next photo are in sanctuary. This sanctuary, like most ‘sanctuaries’ will only accept ‘pure’, undesexed dingoes in order to breed from them.
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.
