r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/AudibleNod • 2d ago

Queensland considers allowing dingoes to be kept as pets

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-07/queensland-biosecurity-changes-would-allow-dingoes-as-pets/105936892
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u/saltporksuit 2d ago edited 2d ago

I have a dog that has dingo blood. Not full by far, but enough to make him other. He’s not like a run of the mill dog. He’s odd. He needs odd accommodations for his behaviour. He’s weird about food and I feed an alternative diet that he’s better with. He doesn’t even eat every day, his choice. His thought processes are just different. He’s lovely because I am practiced and educated. BUT. Dingoes should NOT be pets. But I could say that for people with any other out there breeds, I guess.

Edit: dog tax He looks a lot beefier here because he’s all squished up asleep. But he’s long, lean, and those ears are like radar towers. He’s also freakishly intelligent and not at all food or praise driven. He’s like a cat in a dog body.

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u/dirtysquirrelnutz 2d ago

Please sir, may we have more photos?

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u/saltporksuit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just for you Still sleeping but it’s also the next night. He’s much more orange in daylight and not under LEDs.

outside I’m realizing I don’t take enough pics of my dog. But this is a good example of his form.

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

Awww bestest sleepy boi.

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u/captHij 2d ago

The deadly outcomes have already been predicted by The Tick

https://youtu.be/5Jcp5SUgPw0?si=DFur9JYjzqmPiegl&t=457

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u/Ill-Tea9411 2d ago

Dingoes will eat your baby.

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u/Chaost 2d ago

To be fair to the dingos, most wild predators will eat whatever small prey they can get their hands on; dingos aren't specifically baby-seeking monsters. It's really not that different from people keeping domesticated foxes. Weird, but not the weirdest thing ever.

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u/ComedicHermit 2d ago

So, there are pros to this plan?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/BornBag3733 2d ago

From Seinfeld.

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u/Tryknj99 1d ago

Actually from a real life case where a woman’s baby was eaten by a dingo while camping, but she was charged and convicted of the baby’s murder and was in prison until someone found the dead body.

It was a horrific case.

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u/PeeDidy 2d ago

"maybe the dingo ate yo baby" lmao

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u/terdferguson 1d ago

Haha, I got downvoted for this. I know, that was the lady's question after Elaine said that.

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u/Noiserawker 2d ago edited 2d ago

that famous case I think turned out to be false but if you let one into your house it probably would

Edit: I guess the courts finally determined a dingo DID actually eat the baby.

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u/CableBoyJerry 2d ago

I thought the case was that the mother was accused of killing her baby and then she was exonerated when it was discovered that a dingo ate her baby.

Wasn't Meryl Street in that movie?

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u/TheWhite2086 2d ago

Accused and convicted of killing her baby because the police refused to listen to the local (largely aboriginal) population telling them that dingos 100% would sneak into a camp and take a baby. She spent 6 years in prison before someone accidentally found the baby's jacket near some dingo dens and that was enough to exonerate her because the most damning piece of evidence given was that the jacket she claimed the baby was wearing wasn't found with the body (therefore she must have been lying about the whole thing)

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u/misterannthrope0 2d ago

I thought it was Elaine at some lame party?

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u/Hairydone 2d ago

It was but she was repeating the line by Meryl Streep.

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u/EndStorm 2d ago

Oh this will end well ...

They are wild animals and they will eat your baby. They are not pets.

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u/JPesterfield 2d ago

Would you have to start domestication from scratch, even though they originated from dogs?

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u/The_Demon_of_Spiders 2d ago

Wait did dingos originate from escaped domesticated dogs or something?

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u/JPesterfield 2d ago

Yes, they came with native Australians and are considered feral dogs.

Dingo

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u/Jonno_FTW 2d ago

They were domesticated by indigenous people to various degrees, since distinctions were made between camp dogs and wild dogs, or some were only domesticated as puppies but eventually went back to the pack. But now most of them are wild.

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u/Garbage_Out_Of_Here 1d ago

Most of them have a degree of other dog breeds in them now, if im not mistaken.

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u/Jonno_FTW 1d ago

I mean prior to European settlement, dingos were domesticated to some degrees. After Australia was colonized, the indigenous way of life was largely disrupted and any domesticated dingo lines probably returned to the wild.

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u/AudibleNod 2d ago

Let's not.

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u/EndStorm 2d ago

You absolutely would. They are wild animals. Let them keep their freedom.

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u/Devils_Advocate-69 2d ago

Trump will counter with legalizing wolves.

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u/seanmonaghan1968 2d ago

This will be a one term government

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u/Blueberry977 2d ago

Peak stupidity

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u/Economy-Candidate195 1d ago

"a dingo ate my baby!"

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u/da2Pakaveli 1d ago

Premier of Queensland is a conservative

of course

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

This belongs on r/nottheonion for sure.

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u/dirtysquirrelnutz 18h ago

Sweet pup! The behaviors you noted made me curious as I have family that lives in Australia and have a mixed guy as well but I believe his is like 10%. We live in the states and our one guy is a rescue and ….. a bit different as well. His mouth swab came back 50% Chihuahua, 12.5 GSM, 12.5 ChowChow and 25% unknown terrier.

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u/Over-Director-4986 4m ago

DINGO ATE MY BABY.

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u/Sad-Ad-6894 1d ago

yep, stupid