Pair on death row awaiting immediate execution...

HellFireClub

Just thought I'd throw this out there!

Two dingoes that mauled a three-year-old girl on an Australian beach have been caught and will be destroyed, authorities said today.
The girl was bitten on the legs when the native wild dogs attacked her after she wandered away from her family and into sand dunes on Fraser Island in north-eastern Queensland state.

Environment Department general manager Terry Harper said the two dogs blamed for the attack were trapped and would be put down.

More than 200 dingoes live on Fraser Island, a popular tourist spot about 155 miles north of the state capital Brisbane.

Fraser Island is thought to be among the last refuges for pure-bred dingoes, and they are a protected species in the national park that covers the island. Dingoes are also protected in some other parts of the country, though in many places dingoes that have cross-bred with feral dogs are killed as pests that attack sheep and cattle.

Attacks on humans are relatively rare, though visitors to Fraser Island are warned not to feed the dingoes and to leave the animals alone.

“This is a very timely reminder for everybody about how important it is to stay very close to your children on Fraser Island,” Mr Harper said. “Adults should always stay very close to their children. We know that they do excite dingoes.”

A nine-year-old boy was killed by dingoes on Fraser Island in 2001, prompting the culling of more than two dozen dogs and an overhaul of conservation practices, including warnings about human interaction with the animals.

The most famous dingo attack in Australia was in 1980, when Lindy Chamberlain reported seeing a dog carry her infant daughter, Azaria, away from a tent during a camping trip to Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in Australia’s central desert.

Ms Chamberlain was tried for murder before a series of appeals and judicial inquiries exonerated her and found the dingo claims to be true. Azaria’s body was never found. The story was made into the 1988 film A Cry In The Dark , which earned Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination.




http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0426/breaking19.html

Is this not wild animals doing what wild animals are meant to do really?

Why punish a pair of wild animals with death when the parents allowed the kid to wander off unsupervised and thereby placed at significant risk, not through the wild instincts of a pair of dogs who cannot tell the difference between a child and any other living thing that they see as fair game for their survival, but through the negligence of the parents???

I say put the parents down instead...

orourkeda

Animals who maul children tend to be put down

It would be best if the parents got some kind of formal warning/disciplinary action for neglect as well
I realise you cannot watch your children all the time but if it is known there are wild animals roaming nearby, well...

FatherLen

your title is misleading

chin_grin

HellFireClub wrote: »

Is this not wild animals doing what wild animals are meant to do really?

Why punish a pair of wild animals with death when the parents allowed the kid to wander off unsupervised and thereby placed at significant risk, not through the wild instincts of a pair of dogs who cannot tell the difference between a child and any other living thing that they see as fair game for their survival, but through the negligence of the parents???

I say put the parents down instead...

I say your logic is outlandish!

Yeah animals have rights, the right to be f*ckin' tasty.

But just as there are stupid animals that breed, there are people who do.

Evolution sorts that sh*t out though. Ah the Darwin Awards.

hondasam

Two dingoes that attacked a toddler on Fraser Island yesterday have been captured and destroyed, the Department of Environment and Resource Management has confirmed.

To late to save them OP.

bullpost

I think they've suffered enough tbh.

bluewolf wrote: »

It would be best if the parents got some kind of formal warning/disciplinary action for neglect as well
I realise you cannot watch your children all the time but if it is known there are wild animals roaming nearby, well...

HellFireClub

hondasam wrote: »

Two dingoes that attacked a toddler on Fraser Island yesterday have been captured and destroyed, the Department of Environment and Resource Management has confirmed.

To late to save them OP.

Ah they're gonners, just think it's a stupid vindictive kind of rationality that puts them down, it implies malice where there is none, it's just animals being dumb animals looking for dinner. How many pigs and cattle a week do we kill for dinner here every day of the week for dinner, does anyone get the injection/red card over that massacre?!?

Not a vegatarian by the way!