"Dingo took my Baby"

[Sterling]

I'd wager that Beagles, in Australia, attacked more children from 1995 to date, than Dingoes.

This is not the place to vent your personal attacks on me. Leave my dog out of this. There have never been any beagle attacks on anyone ever in the history of Australia.

You really have a deficit in intellect. Blah, blah, blah (added by Sterling)

I am not going to respond to your uneducated observations about dingoes. I am not going to mention how tourists are warned in particular areas. I won't mention multiple attacks on tourists and how it got so bad they had to begin culling dingoes.

Blah, blah, blah (added by Sterling)

But I think now, the general consensis is that she didn't do it.

Australia

I stand by my post.

Only one of three deaths, since 1995, was the result of a “pure” Dingo in the wild. The other two killings were by Dingo hybrids KEPT AS PETS! In fact, Australia’s “pure” Dingo population is estimated to be only 30% due to decades of interbreeding with domestic dogs. Source: The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (ICUN) – Red List of Threatened Species (2004).

Neither you nor Chamberlain’s solicitor provided documented, verifiable evidence to support your “double negative” claim that Dingo attacks ON HUMANS are commonplace and numerous throughout Australia. And why is that? Quite simply: THE DATA DOES NOT EXIST!

In other words: You are a damned liar. Fact.

As to my uneducated observations about Dingoes, the warning of tourists, multiple attacks and Dingo executions - you are mistaken and deceitfully neglected to mention the number of attacks, the location(s) of both the attacks AND subsequent Dingo exterminations, in your post. Why is that? Certainly the data contained within the Queensland’s Risk Assessment to Humans by Dingoes (2001) AND the Cooperative Resource Centre’s Wildlife Research Report Series: No. 27 (2001) would prove not only yours but Tipple’s argument, too?

Unfortunately, these publications, while documenting Dingo encounters, will not support your claim that Dingo attacks are “not uncommon” throughout Australia. Just as an observation, the death you previously referenced as occurring on Stradbroke Island actually happened on Fraser Island. Coincidentally, Fraser Island was the study location for the aforementioned publications and is considered to be the last remaining refuge for “pure” Dingoes.

Cracker understood my use of examining attacks by breeds we willingly welcome into our homes as pets - especially since two of the three deaths attributed to Dingoes WERE BY HYBRIDS IDENTIFIED AS FAMILY PETS! Accordingly: Why not use the maiming and killing data (which is numerous, available and verifiable) from the canines who are members of our family and scream at the top of our lungs: “If this is harm we receive from our pets, why would anyone doubt a wild animal wouldn’t do the same to a defenseless child in the wilderness?”

It is regrettable that your obvious and overwhelming conceit turned my example (of the gentle Beagle causing pet attacks) into a deliberate assault on you. It seems your personal prejudices preclude you from considering an alternative strategy, using verifiable statistics and animal behavior, as a means to vindicate the accused.

For what it’s worth, I believe they were found guilty based on closed-minded, fearful, religious intolerant, Australian “Christians” who were terrified by the Chamberlain’s minority brand of Christianity. Those jurors probably are probably the same type of closed-minded folks who would deny the killing of a three year old boy by a Beagle. Most likely they would also deny the killing of an infant by a Pomeranian or by a six week old Lab puppy, too.

Just like the people who state “Never” as an absolute fact - instead of an opinion.

BTW – No “I” in consensus.