clitcheese:

hey the only reason we think of dingos as wild animals is because so many of them were left without their humans after colonisation collapsed so many indigenous societies. they have all the characteristics of domestication and were a part of indigenous societies as pets and hunting dogs. they’re just regular dogs that white people made homeless on a continental scale

as soon as i wrote this i realised i need a disclaimer; pls don’t keep them as a pet unless you’re actually an expert, you can’t keep them inside and they have a completely different set of behaviours to regular dogs and they’re apparently a huge and dangerous pain in the ass when they decide it’s time to breed. while they’re domesicated dogs they’re an offshoot that’s completely different to anything you’re used to when you think of regular dogs. please don’t get your baby ate bc of me