Interesting observations re the wild dog - the dingo/dog crossbreed. The article also mentions the kangaroo hound. This was once a popular new breed, developed by settlers in Australia specifically to pack hunt kangaroos.This was at a time when kangaroo was an important part of the settler diet. These dogs were a cross between greyhounds and deerhounds/staghounds (or occasionally Irish wolfhounds). They were fast enough to keep up with a fleeing kangaroo, and strong enough to pull one down, without the hunters needing to use a rifle. Settlers lost interest in the breed when kangaroo was less essential to their menu, and this breed is now officially described as an "extinct" breed. (though there are descendants alive today). These dogs look like a greyhound, only bigger and more muscular and heavy-boned; there are 5 (the big ones) at 7:19 and a beauty at 9:47.
What a wide ranging but completely ill-informed day dreamer that fellow who wrote that article was. Perhaps he should have resisted the temptation to tar everyone at the time with the same brush of ignorance, and spoken purely for himself and his own regarding the marsupials. The only part of the article he submitted and got correct was his treatise on the dingo (a dog after all) and European introduced dogs. he should have started with this and ended with it, thereby leaving the subject of hybridization of species in Australia, on a high and truthful note.
With that imagination, that guy should have written a science fiction novel about his hybrids. It may have been turned into a movie. 😅
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Interesting observations re the wild dog - the dingo/dog crossbreed. The article also mentions the kangaroo hound. This was once a popular new breed, developed by settlers in Australia specifically to pack hunt kangaroos.This was at a time when kangaroo was an important part of the settler diet. These dogs were a cross between greyhounds and deerhounds/staghounds (or occasionally Irish wolfhounds). They were fast enough to keep up with a fleeing kangaroo, and strong enough to pull one down, without the hunters needing to use a rifle. Settlers lost interest in the breed when kangaroo was less essential to their menu, and this breed is now officially described as an "extinct" breed. (though there are descendants alive today).
These dogs look like a greyhound, only bigger and more muscular and heavy-boned; there are 5 (the big ones) at 7:19 and a beauty at 9:47.
Great Stories 👏🏻👏🏻, well told and fab ! Pics Jamie, appreciated chum 👍C🏴🇬🇧
Thanks 👍
Where's your wowie bro?
Jamie, another classic ! 😊😂
Thanks for sharing Jamie
Thanks Jamie. I love the pictures, makes me wonder if life was better back then than today in certain ways.
very interesting...i wonder how that relates to native/big cat sightings...
What a wide ranging but completely ill-informed day dreamer that fellow who wrote that article was. Perhaps he should have resisted the temptation to tar everyone at the time with the same brush of ignorance, and spoken purely for himself and his own regarding the marsupials. The only part of the article he submitted and got correct was his treatise on the dingo (a dog after all) and European introduced dogs. he should have started with this and ended with it, thereby leaving the subject of hybridization of species in Australia, on a high and truthful note.
⚘Hi Jamie🙄
G'day Nancy