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2007-07-18 13:28:10 · 2 answers · asked by Foto Freek 2 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

Carolina dingos ?

2007-07-18 13:29:00 · update #1

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These two sites should give you the info you need:

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/caralinadog.htm

http://www.carolinadogs.com/general.html

2007-07-18 14:06:05 · answer #1 · answered by margecutter 7 · 0 0

"Dingo" is a Dharuk word that was collected by the early European settlers of Sydney, Dharuk being the language of the Sydney basin. It means "domestic dog". The Dharuk word for "wild dog" was "warrigal". The same difference between domestic and wild dogs was made in all Australian languages (about 250 of them). Unfortunately, the early settlers used "dingo" to mean all dogs that were not theirs and it has now come to mean the Australian native dog which arrived in Australia between 6000 and 10,000 years ago.

For another country to use a Dharuk word meaning "domestic dog" to describe their feral dogs seems extremely odd to me. There are plenty of more appropriate names for the California dog than "dingo".

2007-07-18 23:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0 0

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