Community wild dog program

The program also aims to reduce the disease and health risks they pose to humans. Read more about wild dogs and their impacts.

Wild dog control is undertaken on private property in partnership with landholders.

Target species

A wild dog is defined as a dingo (Canis lupus dingo) and a dog (Canis lupus familiaris), other than a domestic dog.

Protection methods

Chemical control

Meat baits are used to control wild dogs in areas of known activity on private properties.
Meat is baited with Sodium Fluoroacetate (1080). This is a restricted pesticide. 1080 is considered the most species-specific pesticide for controlling invasive species.
Council undertakes a regulatory risk assessment prior to approving a property to take part in the program.
Before starting the program, council notifies all properties within a 2 km of control activities by mail. We also notify all neighbouring properties by mail.
Warning signs are placed at the entrance of properties involved in the control activity. Signs remain in place for four weeks after control activity ceases. Council also install additional warning signs on roadsides.

Schedule

Autumn program: 17 September - 15 October 2024

Locations

Control activities are undertaken on private properties registered to the program across the Mary, Stanley and Pumicestone Passage catchments. View map of current baiting properties (PDF, 2.2MB).

Note: Control activities are not undertaken on public pathways, roadsides, within five metres of a boundary fence or within 200 metres of designated dog off-leash areas.