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LINK: (PDF) RSPCA close puppy dactories - dog chooser advice paper
LINK: ABC news search "Dingo"
LINK: sunshinecoastdaily.com.au news search "Dingo"
Link: New! Google Map Sighting Coordinates System
* Allows posters to position a location with Google Maps API on a special map page by use of a standard hypertext link.
* If you are a traveller with stories or information / sightings / pictures of wild dogs to share.
* If your an activist or someone concerned with local wildlife issues.
* If you are a scientist or research field technician or Keeper.
* If you are a non proffessional wild dog keeper whom e.g. grew up with such animals in the forests where you hed lived.
* If you are a company representative with ecological assessments to declare to the public.
If you have images to share but no domain you can get a free account at http://www.flickr.com and see the "forum how to" page at the top left of this page on how to link images into your posts and how to make a Google Map API location. Also, you can access your flickr photo sharing account from your mail.yahoo.com.au (or other national yahoo domain) account.
Link: ...Go to the dogs...
Buy/Own a Dingo (NSW - ACT - NT only)
ABOUT (Links to various sites along down the page) Many of the pages below require Adobe Acrobat reader(from this link)
For the common good of all these rapidly extincting , ignored and misunderstood canids an attempt ot centralise all proceedings and information surrounding them is being setup and assessed HERE
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Species background colour endangerment listing level
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logistic problems of keeping them safe from and off the endangered list
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severely endangered / endangered [requires immediate actions and logistisicing with governments of their range areas and forming a conservation body directly for them if one does not exist]
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extreme: critically endangered near extinct [requires immediate compulsory top level construction of international organisational body directly for them if one does not exist]
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This site wishes to achieve informing the world of the dwindling existence toward extinction of the top order predator before mankind (25 - 30 mya approx) fully evolved on this planet.
That creature has an off shoot of its genus called Familiaris, "Canis Familiaris" the common domesticated dog. The common domesticated dog is believed to be descended from "Canis Lupus" the "Grey Wolf". There are other sub species of Canis/Canidae that are neither Wolf or Fox or Jackal, such as the (example 1.) "Dhole"(a reasonably normal wild dog) and the (example 2.)"Raccoon Dog"(an unusual member of the Canid species). Hyenas about fit similarly with them so to speak..
Wolves are continued to be treated as though they are nothing but a vermin anywhere in the world and the ecological balance of the planet is considered to be damaged from their continual destruction by hunting trapping and carelessness of business and government alike.
Below are site links to/about (for most) endangered species or some heading that way soon if we're not careful in managing the worlds resources and utilisation. Farbeit that utilitarian principle be used for these creatures when in nature they already contain a purpose in ecology.
These Canids require conservation efforts and protectorate construction for their continued survival inclusively as their own species by purity of gene pool diversity.
However, while the beforementioned is being settled, for everyone whom could require to raise wolf pups/cubs, here is some information about how to feed them and make them feel more at home to bond them to thier personal keeper. Regurgitative food transfer among wild wolves (PDF)
Brief about common wolf sub species (PDF) and some terms refered to when describing their species.
Dingone.pdf (Canis Lupus Dingo preservation and personal wild dog keeping) (PDF) (An unorthodox view of Wild Canid preservation) The view of this PDF is that a "genetic reserve pool" of any Wolf species(is a must do of at least a thousand of them based on how deteriorated that reserve pool could be potentially by civil or criminal law disputes that are known to abound with domestic dog keeping) can be kept in a domestic situation living-keeping situation by relatively ordinary people, with minimal requirement to see a difference of needs being separate from that of the method care of domestic dogs(Canis Familiaris)
The same old problem of conservation of wild animals is economics because their
impact on human territory by wandering causes trouble.
It is not reasonable to say to a farmer in e.g. the Bale mountains Ethiopia to not
use fertile land for farming that can save his families life.
Again it is not reasonable that a farmer in Ethiopia should sit and watch and tolerate
Wolves being produced and re-supplied to a frivolously declared land space that is in a war
zone where the motto is .."if it moves shoot it or Aerial bomb it"... while he and his
family starve to death.
That is a rude action upon human life.
These particualar animals are Canidae and through history have even had appointed wild
dog keepers in ancient civilisations, not merely handlers.
However if you wish to dig that out of old ancient text you will find that the keepers
earned a wage and there is no escape from economics at any turn.
What we do not have, (as human boundaries encroach on wilderness and less tolerence of
wild creatures becomes greater because of difficulties they incurr) is a way of
caring for them and "housing them"(not literal , as a figure of speech) so they can be
continued in purity while we adjust to being able to manage our earth and natural
resources.
In the US the difficulties of managing wild canidae are no different to Bale mountains
Ethiopia for the point of not or suffering lost production as a farmer. In the US economic
system two types of insurance can be obtained for lost production life insurance and
direct loss to production (the latter really being the applicable in this context) but
that itself to have, commits a heavy cost, and many in farming really are
not allowed(granted) logistically such cover by insurance companies because there is no
substantive measurement of whether a season would succeed whether agronomic or livestock.
However, in the case of loss of livestock or crops to wild animals, by damage, or attack, it
can be proven to insurance companies that reduction to acceptable risk levels for
allowance of insurance cover can be attained if a campaign of population control against incidence is committed.
The trouble is that is only ensurable to the insurance company by, the destruction of the wild
animals by butchering them, by either poisonous baiting(e.g. 1080 , strychnine), or continual
barages of cull shooting and hunting.
The farmer provides receipts to the insurance company of mercenary assigned trapping and shooting
bounty tally of a registered pest extermination company and the alike as for poison chemicals aquired
and used in accordance with government poison baiting permits and their approved methods of enaction
for primary production.
Unfortunately, if either method is unsuccessful in weight of numbers against population or incidence
occurrence(thus no insurance granted), it can result in illegal chemical usage or illegal hunting.
Canidae at least have some management points large Cats do not, wild canidae are partially
omnivorous and they do form obvious groups with a hierarchy making it possible to perform
simple inter-species communication that is more effective and less dangerous than the
felidae hyper-carnivore.
This point is where they become more able to be managed , saved , conserved either
temporarily or permanently.
If people whom either have the experience, or money to learn to keep these animals can be
picked on to be keepers at a more personal and/or sponsored level then there is a resource
of keepers for any of these wild canidae in requirement.
In Australia, there are many experienced seasonal workers whom could shift across from
doing roundups with pack canidae(Kelpies and Heelers/Cattle Dogs, of is their only
activity for most in that work by having their own dogs) to wolf or wild dog keeping,
not unalike in the US there are many hunters who use hounds whom may see that as an
alternative job handling pack canidae(re: A national Geographic article where one hunter
much of his life kept more than fifty bloodhounds for hunting and hunting was his only
job).
Some would say that its the domain of a scientific major in environmental science of
canidae keeping e.g. a National Park and Wildlife officer,No!(there is obviously an alike).
Or, if they do recognise the pure hands on requirement of direct social relationship with
the animals, then as usual a governament would try to stretch each personal keepers arms
accross to the next piece of territory from where his official location station is for
economics sake.This last point about a government assigning a person as a resource gets
worse, if there is a downturn of funding economically it simply drops the position of the
resource then attempts some force of handing it to another assigned employee not dissimilar
to the stretched resource arrangement previously mentioned.
Governements are known perfectly, so are business and big business(reasonably exempt from
attempting to ply a responsibility here because the territories they use are either granted
or is not for statement to imply or impart as existent entity).
Winning by luck against time and few resources is one thing,
but it does not justify being a loser if "that" occurs,
a loser cannot win because it's over, it's finnished.
(Case Study) Wolf Habituation as a Conservation Conundrum ..."Historically, intense fear of gray wolves (Canis lupus) as predators of livestock and perhaps people led to bounty hunts in the Western U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s that successfully eradicated wolves from most of their historic range"...
Co-Evolution of Humans and Canids (PDF) This article is about human and canid evolutionary cognition through time. There are reasons that "Canis Familiaris" could be nothing other than a total artificial sub species of canid, and that Wolves effectively exist as nothing much more than a choice of the few rays of evolution from the mid era canidae "bear dogs" and "Hesperocyoninae,Borophaginae,Caninae" sub-specie caniforms from 35 million years previous in the Eocene epoch.
Wild Canid Centre Mission Statement :
As written in the by-laws (amended 22 Feb 2001 by the Board of Trustees), the mission statement of the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center (WCSRC) states: ?Dedicated to the preservation of wolves and other wild canids through captive breeding, education and research.? The basic purpose of the WCSRC (known locally as the Wolf Sanctuary and within the profession as the Wild Canid Center) is to contribute to the survival of the wild canids of the world through exhibition, education, breeding (conservation), and research. Activities focus on the reintroduction of endangered species back into the natural ecosystem. Specific goals state:
(a) The WCSRC will establish and maintain gene pools of selected subspecies of wild canids.
(b) The WCSRC will strive to facilitate the reintroduction of wild canids into appropriate wilderness areas.
(c) The WCSRC will stimulate interest in the survival of wild canids by exhibiting resident animals, providing educational programs and materials, contributing to data banks on captive canids throughout the world and maintaining a library on wild and captive canids.
(d) The WCSRC will conduct and sponsor studies of its captive stock of wild canids and encourage and support field research in canid biology.
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Below are links to information of various wolves' species (and other wild canid species), and, information from activist groups that monitor and lobby local or national governments in various parts of the world to protect and conserve wolves.
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