What a pack of misfits this wild dog pack turned out to be!
The oldest female had the stumpy tail and broad head of a domestic red cattle dog but with the markings of a classic yellow dingo. She still wore a tattered and bleached collar when caught and headed up a pack with colours ranging from black to Tiger striped. With a few days left, Skunk and I kept running the trapline.

It had been a hard month, with only eleven days of good trapping without driving rain and flooded creeks. With only a few days to trap my last property, we needed some quick results.

It was dry, the drought back in 2017 was a killer. Wild dog attacks were on the increase on the calves so we got the urgent call to get some traps in the ground. The trick was to catch the dogs but not the green Goannas.

How could someone who traps dingoes have such a deep affection for them? If you don't understand, maybe you never will.
Man has the ultimate power. He can despoil, he can ignore, he can overreact but he can also open his eyes, mind and heart. Your choice.

Some call them dingoes and some call them wild dogs.
Some say two thirds means they are nearly all pure, while others say that means one third are hybrid.
Some want to see every last one gone, while others want every last one protected no matter what damage they do.
I wish more people would aim for a balanced approach - sustainable management of an animal that can be both a pest and an asset. Maybe the first thing we need to own up to, is that data can be interpreted many ways and it often depends on who has the deepest pockets. After all, what difference can 10-20% really make?
Let the debate continue.

Those that know us will testify, we are crazy about our working line of Border Collies. Some that have seen them working called them "Bad-Ass" and the name has sort of stuck! There's nothing nasty about this new bunch though!

I got the call from a mate down south who was loosing quite a few calves to a pack of wild dogs. Time to pack the Cruiser, load on Skunk and Dash, then hit the road.

Killer wild dogs down south Part 5

The trapline was working but the weather had other ideas. Make every opportunity count and hang in there was all we could do.

If the Heritage Herd of red deer, running in the ranges of south eastern Queensland Australia, had the natural increase rate of other deer species around the globe, by now there would be millions of them but there simply isn't. In this clip, we look at the Limiting Factors keeping this great deer herd in a check.

Unfortunately when anything, plant, animal or person, is given the label "Feral", it carries with it negative overtones. This has been done by design, it has been intentional and it has steered the narrative in the desired direction for those within Government who wish to have all wild deer removed. Once they are gone and once landholders are locked into a "Pest animal control" spiral, only licensed, accredited and fully scrutinised professional pest controllers will be allowed to own and use firearms. This issue (one of so many) is not about wild deer only, it is about your freedom and your hunting heritage. It is about total control.

If something has no value, is it worthless?