bob tail dingo

[rayharvey271]

cross breeding large dogs with the dingos is producing cross breeds with no tails or very short tails

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[rayharvey271]

2 weeks ago in the sunshine coast hinderland a large dingo ran off with a young collie in its mouth ,we all knows what that means ( doggone)it seems the wild dogs have a taste for collies thats the second collie thats has been on the menu.i have this dingo on avi and pic of a very large fox they both have survive the 1080 baiting program that been running about two years .the dingo shooter got 4 a few months ago but didnt get the one that took the collie. its a real killer got about 20 ducks and geese of my relos. tryed to get the cat from under the car owner came out and it had a go at him too.

[rayharvey271]

this fox is acout the size of a dingo.

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[greatdane]

Yo Ray,
As usual an interesting photo!!
The face definitely looks like a fox, but the rest looks like a jackal? I know that foxes have much longer legs than expected by most people due to coat length, but the brush (tail)is very full for a fox with a coat this short and the positure of the tail is not very fox-like. Maybe your Australian foxes are developing into a new species ??
How did you estimate the size?
If you´ve told us the picture was obtained in Africa, I would have said Jackal.
An unusual fox by any standard!

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There have been foxes like this in Central Vic for ages, I have written about them before.
They can ourun anything less than a greyhound or stag, and can outmatch most farm dogs in a scrap.
Foxes have been modifying to suit environment, ever since there have been foxes in Aust, eg. the midgets I wrote about. I hope to visit that country again before long so will see if I can check up on the local foxes. I now only have 2 usable rifles. the old ,303 Smelly amd my .35 Whelan BG
rifle. Really both are a bit oversize for a fox. Re hounds I once saw a hunter with 2 Afghan hounds in the Wombat Ranges, I dont know if he was hunting wombats or not.
BC

[Thylacoleo Gal]

Welcome back, Bushcat!

Hey, and tell a bit more about short-legged foxes and similar stuff? Actual examples of evolutionary adaptation are of great interest, imho.

[youcantry]

Saw three foxes two nights ago in Sydney. Man they are fast. Really fast.

[youcantry]

I should get a camera happening, huh?

[molloch]

These dingos are crossed with stumpy-tailed cattle dogs:



Which are heeler/collie/dingo breed derivatives:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Stumpy_Tail_Cattle_Dog

The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog descended from Smithfield Cattle Dogs in England, which were brought to Australia in the early 19th century and crossed with the dingo. Records of working dogs are scarce from this time period, and there are several different accounts of the breed's development. One is that a drover named Timmins from Bathurst, New South Wales, crossed the Smithfield dogs with the dingo, producing a type of working dog called Timmin's Biters.[1] In order to mute their dingo characteristics and make the dogs easier to handle, further crosses were made with Scottish smooth collies, producing speckled red and blue dogs that were often born tailless.

[dennisw]

Most short tailed dogs are ones who have had their tail docked, a fad which seems to have fortunately almost vanished.

Talking of foxes I saw one in town tonight only a block from home as it ran across the road in front of me I at first thought it was a cat being only as big as a good sized moggie but the colour and the bushy tail twice as long as the body was a give away.