KAMAKAZE DINGOES

Today I am going to tell you a story about exploding dingoes. You will know it is true because I don’t lie about these things.
A long time ago, when the English people started coming to Australia, they found very many strange animals. Some of them missed their animals back home and some very clever people decided to bring some of the animals they were used to all the way to Australia.
They brought out cows and horses and chickens. But they also brought out rabbits, foxes and goats, and they turned out not to be very good for our country.
Later some more clever men brought out cane toads and they were really bad.
Anyway, my story is about more clever men. About 2 years ago they decided they wanted to get rid of some goats on an island off the Queensland coast. They thought they would put 2 dingoes on the island and the dingoes could eat all the goats.
They put tracking collars on the dingoes so they would always know where they are. And, because they thought all the goats would be gone in 2 years, they put a poison capsule in the dingoes’ necks, under their skin, that would explode in 2 years and the dingoes would die.
These were clever men – no more goats – no more dingoes.
Well – the very first thing the dingoes did was chew through each other’s collars. Now no-one knew where the dingoes were.
Next, the dingoes found the goats were too smart for them and they couldn’t catch the goats.
One dingo starved to death.
The second dingo learnt how to catch and eat all the protected birds on the island.
Now there are lots more goats on the island, one dingo and no birds.
The clever men have only 4 weeks now to wait and see whether the dingo will explode. They are really hoping it will.

Paul wrote this for the grandchildren, but it is a true story, told to us by one of the dive guides from Orpheus  when we went snorkelling out from this particular island where the dingo is.