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Yes, my dog is called Dingo. Why call him "Dingo"?
He's called that because, when he was a pup, he would look up at you and perk his ears "just so". And when he did, they would be just like the big, stand-up ears of a dingo. Even though this isn't enough to really look like a dingo, his fur is the golden tawny colour of dingoes.
[Table of Contents] What's he like?
People (mostly girls) think he's cute
. Still not much larger than he was as a pup, Dingo has a goatee-like beard, and a nice short coat with a shaggy set of hackles which covers his shoulders and goes down his back to his tail (which is curved upwards). His medium size and his sweet brown eyes can soften your heart. But they're getting cloudy, since he's about 14 years old.[Table of Contents] How did we get him?
I can't be certain of his age
because we [kind of] inherited him. When we lived at the H.B. Minesite just outside of Salmo, BC, our neighbours there were really into dogs. They found Dingo tied to the outside of an abandoned house and brought him home. He had been eating gravel to fill his stomach (it's like dogfood pellets, right?). Give him a break, he was only a pup. After they had him home for a while, they offered him to us. All the kids up there played together and we had played with him, too. They said that he was approximately four or six months old, so that's how we estimate his age. We got him in 1982.[Table of Contents] What kind of dog is he?
Dingo
has a lot of personality. He will come up to you and, if he wants you to pet him, he'll get you to pet him. Or if you want to pet him and he doesn't, he'll leave you alone. He's stubborn, he's--in some ways--catlike! When I talk to him, I get the feeling he knows English. For example, I can tell him to "go to the other door" (without hand signals) and he does![Table of Contents]
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