LATELY, public interest in the dingo has been revived by unprovoked attacks on tourists on Fraser Island, now called K’gari, in Queensland. The only reason that a pure-bred dingo would attack a human would be because it had lived in close contact with them and been fed by them, losing all fear and respect for humans as a consequence.
I have never seen or heard of an unprovoked attack by a dingo in the bush; they’ll always try to avoid humans.
Only seldom have I deliberately set out to hunt a dingo. Usually I’ve come across them by happenstance. More often this has occurred when a mate and I were hunting apart; one of us starts it running and the other gets the shot.
Sometimes curiosity will be their downfall and on a few occasions when I’ve surprised a dingo, it has only
