WILD DOGS
Sir, —I was interested to read in your paper of wild dogs of the dingo breed being seen in the Matakoho district in the days of early settlement there. About the same time, or rather earlier, when the bush was practically continuous from Glorit to Warkworth. my grandfather poisoned a pack of wild dogs which he described as characteristic of the Australian dingo. This pack, which numbered 13, killed a large number of our sheep. On ono occasion my grandfather laid strychnine baits near the carcases of the sheep; on the morning following he found the whole pack dead near by My father once heard yelping in a near by gully in the bush, and on investigating he found the pack had a large boar bailed in the watercourse. On his approach the dogs turned tail and fled, showing no signs of attacking him. As it is hardly likely that they were the same stock as the Matakoho wild dogs, it would almost point to New Zealand having a dingo breed of dog. I havo heard an old Maori chief talk of wild dogs in the Maungakahia Valley many years ago. Peter R. Gardner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 15
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196WILD DOGS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 15
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