Six months after arriving at the Australian Dingo Foundation's sanctuary, Wandi the alpine dingo is thriving.
"Wandi is holding his ability to meet people and to be gregarious and outgoing which was always going to be a big worry because dingoes are, by nature, terribly timid and very afraid of human beings," she said.
"It's been a challenge, luckily we're up for it here because we've had dingoes for 36 years and understand them, even the wild ones." According to Ms Watson he has"grown like a weed and has developed exceptionally well," since he arrived.Wandi's playmate Hermione has been described as the perfect match."She was two weeks younger than Wandi and she was born at the sanctuary," Mr Newman said.
"He gets his exercise everyday out with Hermione and they play and rough and tumble and wrestle all around the paddock.""We hope once they get to breeding age, which is about two years of age, because Wandi's line is completely new to our sanctuary, it's a new genetic line for us to keep our population going to make sure we always have that strong pure genetic line happening," Mr Newman said.
"Hopefully it will be with Hermione, but if not we will choose another dingo, but at the moment everything seems to be going well between the two of them, so fingers crossed it stays that way."
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