On 25/08/18 12:08, F wrote:
On 24/08/2018 12:13, whisky-dave wrote:

But they're aren't any tuely wild dogs, pets that have become ferral
but the closest to a wild dog is a wolf in the UK animal world and
most of the world where dogs are pets or even a food source.

So a wild dog is usually an escapee or perhaps off-spring of one if
they exist or live long enough.

Not been on a game drive in Africa then?



MMM.

IITC there are only wolves, coyotes, african wild dogs, jackals, dholes
and dingos. Presuambly with a common ancestor since domestic dogs can
interbreed with IIRC all of them...

Check out the wiki entries here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog

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