If it wasn’t for some wise and thoughtful people in Australia the dingo would be eventually lost forever but through their efforts of having colonies of pure dingoes in private collections, the dingoes DNA will not be lost. The number of dingoes in these colonies is not large and some have said it’s not enough of a gene pool to re-establish them back into the wild.

It maybe good to breed the dingo in captivity but there are problems associated with this method, you can have the human influence. Keepers breeding them to their standards for example, favouring the more aggressive ones or different shapes, stockier, thicker coat suited for the cold. If you don’t believe people could do that it is proven in every domestic dog that roams this planet, as it has been stated that the dingo’s ancestor is the mother of all dogs.

Also by having dingoes in captivity you are loosing their cultural heritage, their behaviour that has been spawned over the last five thousand years. You can of course release the dingo back, if they become extinct in the wild (and they will become extinct if we don’t stop what is happening) with captive bred dingoes but you have lost the direct special link to the first dingo that set foot onto the main land of Australia.

Sure, the captive bred dingoes are direct descendants of the first dingo but what has happen is its provenance has been altered by humans allowing genes to mix from animals from both sides of this country. This would not normally happen as it would take thousands of years for the genes to migrate across the country, if at all.

Another problem with captive breeding is that every year there is an over supply of dingo pups which are euthanized because suitable owners can not be found. For every dingo pup that is lost it means a loss in the genetics that could help with the survival of the species.