Alan B.,

Simply put, as usual you don't have a clue, given simple DNA comparisons, well and truly proves that ALL DOGS are the prodigy of the grey wolf (of which the Asian wolf is a type).

Dingoes are not more closely related to wolves than other dogs.

The ancestors of Tasmania's Aboriginal population walked there from the mainland in the ice age when sea levels were lower. Any similarities with Chatham Islanders are either just coincidental or the result of environmental similarities.

Where are you getting all these weird ideas about ancestry?

Adian: Where are you getting these weird ideas that you can challenge and or refute traditional and published knowledge?
It must be such a comfort to know you're always right!
Alan B.

//Dingoes are not more closely related to wolves than other dogs.//

Turns out they may be less closely related. A paper published in 2014 lends support to the old taxonomic designation of Canis dingo, rather than Canis lupus dingo. Watch this space.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.12134/abstract

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/dingo-special-enough-save

Far too many of our decisions are made from the heart, and not from the head. I mean, how would the lion survive if they all of a sudden grew a conscience and felt sorry for the gazelle.

All the animal lovers trying desperately to save the abandoned animals, and find them a loving home, yet these same people often walk past homeless people and think little of it. What should be done is to look after the homeless, and put the abandoned animals down.

We as a society are becoming far too soft and it will be our ultimate downfall because like it or not, we live in a society that runs on money, not sympathy for animals. Don't get me wrong, I love animals myself, but we no longer have the luxury of a balanced budget and jobs at every corner.

It's nice to feel all warm and fuzzy, but we would be a far better place if all that sympathy were better deployed.

Hasbeen.

What exactly do you say is garbage?
Inner city?
Hell I am standing on coral in Western Solomon Islands as I read and reply to your apparently pointless criticism.
And I have skippered numerous cruisers from Sydney and Brisbane to the GBR stopping at Fraser Island on the way.

What are you getting at anyway?
Really I don't understand the apparent spite in your post.

Animal welfare, and kindness to animals, are both white western concepts, Simon. As the numbers of white western people decline, so cruelty to animals will increase.