A kind of wild or half-domesticated dog found in Australia; a dingo.
a lamb had been killed by some of the native dogs
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- With a massive native dog population and wild dogs and foxes, it's more a question of when rather than whether the disease will spread.
- Australia's native dog may have arrived here much earlier and by quite a different route than previously thought.
- The infant was snatched from the family campsite by a wild native dog.
- Percy has plaster casts of the foot-prints of a native dog that are far too big to be a dingo's.
- Most kangaroo species generally prefer open country where their great speed is an advantage in escaping dangers such as Australia's wild native dog.
- Later the dogs went wild and became the ancestors of the dingo, now considered an Australian native dog.
- Despite their bad reputation, the native dogs are a protected species on Fraser Island.
- Should the native dog be put on the endangered species list?
- The baby is alleged to have been killed by a wild Australian native dog.
- The girl suffered bite wounds to her legs after the native dogs pounced when she wandered away from her parents and into sand dunes on the Queensland island.