Skippy the bush kangaroo could save lives, talk, track humans, attack bad guys, inspire awe and, in the absence of the handsome helicopter pilot, get the girl.
Fatso the muddle-headed wombat, after many years of admirable service on A Country Practice, the light relief to Molly and Brendan's farmhouse angst, came out of retirement for a show stopping turn with Roy and HG during The Sydney Olympics.
Koala Blinky Bill's credentials are above repute, Snake was, is and forever will be cool and the Australian Hockey team are affectionately referred to as The Kookaburras on account of their speed, skill and grace in flight.
And then, on the other, more ignorant media-dealt hand, we have Australia's native dog, the Dingo. The dingo is a beautiful, intelligent, handsome and loyal creature who unfortunately, despised as it is by the soil stripping, land degrading, politically motivated sheep industry, is relegated to scavenging lamely in the Today Tonight/A Current Affair fed garbage media dump of popular opinion.
Time to set things straight.
The dingo came here 4000 years ago. Sheep came here 200 years ago.
The Sheep eats grass. The dingo eats meat.
The dingo, if it has access to them, will eat sheep.
Solution?
STOP EATING SHEEP. All sheep go back to England where their woolly coats are actually a welcome relief from the cold, rather than a cruel inescapable liability. Dingoes are no longer shot and poisoned by cruel man.
You ever met a dingo? Hung out with one close up? Go and visit The Dingo Farm at Castlemaine, Victoria, where long-time dingo supporter and expert, Bruce Jacobs, is guardian to over 100 dingos on his 30 acre bush property. The dingoes run free and most are pretty comfortable around humans, allowing us to observe them at close range. They're amazing creatures, the way they demonstrate hierarchy and communicate through howls and "snuffing" snorts as opposed to a domestic dog's bark.
Despite its great personality as a species and its importance to the biodiversity of Australia, the dingo is dying. Not only is it being poisoned and shot, it is also being hybridised out of existance by stray dogs and dingo hybrids. Experts reckon that as little as 25% of the dogs we currently might recognise as dingoes are actually pure bred. We need to act now if we are going to save this beautiful native animal from the same fate as the amazing thylacine.
What's a thylacine?
Yes, well, that's another story.
SO, AS WELL AS GIVING UP SHEEP MURDER, IF YOU HAVE A DOG, BLOODY WELL GET IT FIXED, OKAY!
Neriman Kemal
