I also do not understand breeding and buying specialty pets. Your dogs sound wonderful, and your love for them shows through in your post. They compliment each other.

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...a shepherd to heard sheep, a catahoula or lacy to hunt pigs, a frisbee catching golden retriever who will just hang out, mellow, with a scarf around his neck.

But there are too many "breeders" who don't respect dogs and/or don't know what they are doing. There are plenty of friendly mutts in the shelters and too many misfits like ours.

Where on earth can I get a real Dingo?

Shelter animals and strays are where we got our pets all throughout my life. All animals are awesome so I consider myself extremely lucky to have known them. Your doggies look like they're having a blast!

This dog was near impossible until we brought home the husky for her to chew on. (He loves it.) The husky also taught her to be less suspicious of people.

A food thief, destroyer of shoes and furniture, very high energy, menacing to strangers.

We were her last chance.

She must have enjoyed human company when she was a puppy, otherwise, from what I've read of dingos, she'd be impossible.

The animal control people think they know where she came from, but the fellow left the state, leaving her wild for five or six months before they were able to catch her. She can be invisible, just like the coyotes around here. If she wanted to leave us, she would.

She's not the only Dingo living wild in our county. She's not an "American Dingo" of the Carolina sort either. We've got naturalized Australian trees too...

I was extremely reluctant to adopt this dog but my wife brought her home anyways.

The mamma dog in this video is nearly identical to ours, digging and all.

I've been following Carolina Dogs quite closely, and have a strong interest in wild, primitive breed, and LTPM dogs. Australian Dingos and New Guinea Singing Dogs are especially fascinating to me. I'm very curious to know where she came from.

There is a primitive dog yahoo group that's quite interesting … PM me if you want details.

My wife adopted her because she was pretty, a little wild, and likely wouldn't have been adopted by anyone else. I took one look at her and knew she was going to be trouble, and she was. Only later did we figure out her origins.

We adopted another, much older high energy, but well mannered, dog for dingo to chew on, and that was working out okay, but then that dog got cancer, probably had it when we adopted her. We didn't know until one day she simply stopped eating. Up until then her behavior had been entirely normal. The vet took an x-ray and the cancer had blocked everything up and was in her liver too, so we had to say goodbye.

Our dalmatian-mix is not a high energy dog and the dingo was getting really obnoxious. "Wanna play, wanna play?" fighting over food, even some bullying behavior. That's when my wife got the husky. He can take it, they spend hours wrestling, he's mellow around people, and everything in the house was calm again, as much as it can be with three dogs.

But honestly, not recommended.

Dingo is definitely a dog, not like wolves or coyotes who don't have that intrinsic regard for people dogs have, but temperamentally she reminds me very much of the catahoula we once had, the sort of dog who has zero tolerance for boredom. Leave them alone and they go looking for trouble.

Both the dingo and the husky are big talkers, and they howl when they hear sirens, which is pretty much every day in our community. They also hate the coyotes and raccoons. We don't leave our dogs out at night, but if they hear, smell, or see the coyotes or raccoons they'll raise a huge ruckus, waking everyone in the house.

And they've torn up our backyard something awful.

I know I am late to the discussion, but...wow...that is a great looking dog, Hunter! I have seen a lot of supposed "dingoes" thrown around in the States, but almost none of them looked like they actually were one. (They're almost always just pit/shepherd or husky/lab mixes.) Yours actually does look quite dingo! Do you have more pics online?

BrotherIvan, I have several of them. They are indeed "special needs"...extra smart, mind of their own, very...driven. Always into something. And, if they have a good enough reason, they can climb like monkeys! That said...I *adore* them. I came to them from wolf dogs, coydogs, New Guineas, etc so was pretty much used to the mindset.

I do have a few available for adoption, free except for cost of their spay/neuter & the gas to get them home...preferably to folks in the Eastern US although we would probably work on transport for the right person. They are the black & tan variation though, not the more common ginger colour. You need a great fence! (or willing to add one) and a solid understanding of them. I can train folks to some extent but...well, unlike dogs, not all humans are trainable. lol You can email solowolf_93@yahoo.com but be prepared to answer lots of questions. These guys are our extended family and, if you take one, you kinda will be too.

I would love to have one, but we live in an apartment with no yard which would be so unfair. Good luck to you and all your pups! I bet they are fun and keep you on your toes!

They are! We have a blast. Here are some pics.

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Dingos in America? Who knew?

and when you bring them in the house you can almost hear them sigh when they realize they now have a home. good for you hunter!

He was dropped off as part of a litter at a pet store. We never figured out what he was a mix of, probably a beagle somewhere in his lineage. The other six have all been rescues (and all girls). Rescues are the best - I'll never buy from a breeder - not because I have anything against breeding or purebreds, but because some of the most loving nutty loyal dogs are the ones people threw away. And the ones who came closest to death - their zest for life is tremendous, it's like they knew this was their last chance and they wanted to live it to the fullest. Three of my girls were pure Dalmatians. If you want a pure breed, you can always find one who needs love and a home. They'll be grateful all their lives.

thank you for posting these - now I can picture them when you tell those great stories about them!

You respect them, and they respect you.

It wouldn't work any other way.

We treat all our dogs like that. The dalmatian-mix has the pride of age and experience, and the other dogs respect her for that, but she's a bit goofy and doesn't always know what's going on. She doesn't play much, with people or other dogs. She is easily confused. Two animals she's tried to play with were a giant rattlesnake and a skunk.

Unlike the dingo and husky, her kind would not survive without humans.

Except for the vocalizing. Akitas are silent stalkers, so they tend to not bark even when you wish they did though they seem to like to make a lot of talking noises to both people and dogs that they play with. The one I have now is quite a chatterbox.

My first Akita was as dignified as an Emperor, however, the one I have now and the one I had before him are/were the most undignified dogs on the planet delighting in embarrassing me in public. Like, if they decided to roll around on someone's lawn kicking their legs in the air and squirming with glee they'd pick the lawn where the owners were on the porch.

I've always just loved the almost perpetual battle of wits with them though. I so get the yard destruction, too. Just like poopy patrol is a daily habit for me so is filling in the craters dug all over the yard (which will be indignantly emptied of dirt again the second my back is turned). When I first moved here (2nd Akita then) I had a little Azaela bush in the yard which Boo promptly chewed the branches off of, and about a week later dug up the root ball and presented this "gift" to me on the doorstep. Yoshi would have probably just eaten it (he likes to lick the dirt in the yard all the time, too... yummy).

The most interesting and fun big hairy tricksters I've ever had the pleasure of sharing my life and home with.

I didn't even know there were dingos in the US. She does look like a handful.

are super affectionate, but they please themselves, as most cats do.

I read recently that cats recognize their name when called about 80% of the time, but respond about 10% of the time. The numbers are skewed obviously by the noncooperative and the few who never learned their names.

But I have a three and a half year old cat who won't always come when I call HER name (though she WILL look at me), but if I call one of my OTHER cats', she will rush over to interpose herself between me and the cat I have called.

See what I mean? That Husky must be part cat--cuddly but a tad cantankerous.

I love watching dogs play. So sweet, I am so glad these three have a home with you.