![]() ![]() He says the hunters had no weapons in their tents and were menaced by wild dogs growling outside the tent at 2 in the morning, and blocking access for the campers to escape to their cars. "The wild dogs they are enormous animals, bigger than any domestic dog I've seen and when you look at the bull mastiffs and the bigger breeds, they were bigger than those. Peter Baltis from the NSW South Coast Hunting Club says uncontrolled wild dogs are menacing campers in popular tourists area. Shooting hunters are reporting an escalation in the size and number of wild dogs in the high country around the New South Wales and Victorian borders. "The pack structure changes: dogs breed twice a year, dingoes (breed annually) only once the packs act differently and what we are afraid of is that if this trend continues they will go after different prey." Sporting shooters frightened by largest wild dogs they have seen He says wild dog controllers are fearful of attacks starting on humans as the feral hybrid dog becomes larger. you can get a very big range and very big dogs." ![]() "They are 25 per cent bigger than they were 30 years ago, and you get a very big range and they are now about 17.5 kilograms on average. Wild dogs are big and getting bigger each year according to research cited by Professor Tony Peacock, the head of the organisation charged with national invasive animals research. "It brings a different income into the town aside from mining (and) we've got a pasturing industry that's involved in the town as well, but the pasture industry's been pretty low for a few years with the price of wool and the onset of wild dogs." Wild dogs are bigger, attack larger species, and are here to stay without concerted community co-operation - views of the head of the Australian Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre In West Australia, the mayor of outback town Leonora welcomes the possibility of government spending to house asylum seekers in the region where the mayor Jeff Carter says rural incomes are being devastated by wild dogs killing livestock. The wild dog is a top pest enemy for land managers in farm and national park regions in south-east Australia and in many parts of Australia, from Queensland to Western Australia. Wild dogs go by many names - and none are complimentary - for the feral, hybridised, cross-bred, big mongrel scourge of the farmland and bush. Specialist trappers of the wild dogs, all long-term bushmen, report the wild dogs have a particular love for spiny echidnas in the south-east of Australia, where dead wild dogs are often full of sheep and the native animals they toy with for play, before ripping open the echidna's soft underbelly. This wild dog story is ongoing, and being added to regularly, so read on and hear the interviews with wild dog controllers, wool growers, feral animal specialists and a range of others involved in the issue that impacts on rural communities across Australia. Nobody claims the wild dog can be eradicated, and wild dogs are yet another issue for environmental management in Australia. Governments are trying to address the issue, with varying success rates, by working with rural areas grappling with the escalating problem. ![]() ![]() Wild dogs love to eat native animals, but diets vary, and they have an insatiable appetite for hot lamb, raw beef, tasty goat, all fresh and on the hoof in the paddocks of Australia.įrom the mountains to the sea and across the red outback to the snow-covered alpine areas, wild dogs are a exotic feral pest that invasive animal experts say are destroying rural communities. ![]()
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