Dingoes or wild dogs, it depends on how it impacts you. Locally, wild dogs have 50 to 75 per cent dingo heritage. They massacre sheep by the dozens as if for sport, leaving them to die slow, painful deaths. Cattle are more robust and normally can keep dogs at bay but at calving time dogs come in to eat the newborn calf poo, afterbirth, and will kill some calves.
There are government-funded baiting and trapping programs. After the fires choppers flew up the whole great divide of NSW and aerial-baited over national parks and state forest. Normally you would map, have done training, bury baits and after a few weeks dig them up if not taken. But apparently there was no concern for quolls, goannas, snakes, marsupial carnivores, owls, eagles, and more. Ironically the koala people support this indiscriminate aerial baiting; some native animals are more equal than others!
I suggest Byron Council fund scientific wild dog/dingo programs incorporating tracking collars, so we can become better informed.
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