Australia: Another Dingo Attack on Fraser Island

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | September 25th, 2008 | Trackback

The popular tourist spot Fraser Island has a wild dog problem. For the fifth time in a year a dingo attacked and bit a visitor, prompting the Queensland government to move faster to electrify dingo fences built around communities on the island. But that will not help tourists, who usually stay on the beaches. The dingo problem stems from the habits of many tourists and some residents to feed the wild dogs, and misunderstanding that they are wild animals, not potential pets. The animals now roam the island at will and sometimes become aggressive. In the latest incident the dingo bit a three-year-old girl on the back and buttocks but she was not seriously injured. Wildlife authorities intend to shoot the animal if they can identify it. It would be the third dingo killed this year because of attacks. In 2001 a dingo killed a nine-year-old boy on the island.

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