{"id":2867,"date":"2012-04-03T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesentimentalbloke.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2015-04-18T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T08:20:02","slug":"a-hasty-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/2012\/04\/a-hasty-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hasty Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2872\" title=\"Dingo 1\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having used a shot of a dingo only a short time ago I would have been a bit reluctant to use another one so soon, but I came across this one this morning while coming down the Oodnadatta Track.<\/p>\n<p>He was quite fearless and had no qualms about marching right up to me as you can see from this photograph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2873\" title=\"Dingo-Cattle 1\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However he had other things on his mind and quickly headed of towards a herd of cattle nearby. I followed along to see what would happen as the cattle were very nervous about his presence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2874\" title=\"Dingo-Cattle 2\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things turned into a bit of a stand-off for a while but while the cattle were trying to figure out the situation, there wasn&#8217;t much chance the dingo could be anything more than a nuisance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2875\" title=\"Dingo-Cattle 3\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dingo-Cattle-31-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cattle soon figured out that, as a group, they had the upper hand and after a quick charge the excitement was over.<\/p>\n<p>I have finished the last of the assignments for R M Williams Outback Station magazine, which comes out in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having used a shot of a dingo only a short time ago I would have been a bit reluctant to use another one so soon, but I came across this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fauna","8":"category-oodnadatta-track","9":"category-outback-south-australia"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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