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Hikers in Australia are being warned about a fierce new breed of half-dingo wild dog stalking the country's mountains and forests.
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Abandoned or escaped domestic dogs such as rottweilers, bull mastiffs and Rhodesian ridgebacks have interbred with Australia's native dog to produce a new strain of "super-dingoes".
So...now...they are basically horses that attack, right?
The cross-breeds are bigger and more powerful than ordinary dingoes. One animal recently shot dead by a farmer reportedly weighed 154lb. They are killing livestock and menacing walkers, horse riders, Australian men, and campers along the Great Dividing Range, a chain of mountains, gorges and national parks extending from Queensland through New South Wales to Victoria. "They are extremely ferocious," Brian Tomalin, of the New South Wales Farmers' Association, said. "There's a real possibility that someone is going to be killed by one of these things, especially if they stumble on a den."
So, really, why all the concern?
The dogs have killed so many sheep that in some areas farmers have had to switch to cattle.
Eeeew. That's not an image I want to be left with! Oh, he meant that the farmers were farming. Sorry I thought he meant... |
