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...still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting Dog," etc., contains a meditation on being an American as well as the pleasures of summer. The one titled "Wall of Corn, " reads in part, "It's a metaphor for life in America. Obscene abundance brimming with promise that also feels stuffy and myopic...
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...There are a number of buckets of money for pest-animal research but there are so many pests now and not enough money to go around," he says. With conservation of the dingo for its ecological role a departmental goal, Eldridge says that even if an animal has some dog genes, "if it's still operating in a pack and still behaving like a dingo, we regard it as a pure dingo." But Wilton thinks the bar should be higher. "If you have the opportunity and pure dingoes are still available, why be satisfied with a replacement...
...alternative to baiting is now being considered in W.A., where the federal government is funding a feasibility study into building a dingo barrier fence similar to the dog fence which runs from Queensland to South Australia. Though exclusion fences are notoriously costly to maintain, federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell says pastoralists in the state's northwest and eastern Goldfields region are desperate to combat wild dogs hunting "in plague proportions." There, too, the problem is mixed breeds - Campbell says pastoralists haven't complained about dingoes to him - devastating stock and wildlife. The minister says pest hybrids should be treated differently...
...Sarah Fyffe will be happy to hear that. The Perth dog trainer became so incensed by negative attitudes to dingoes that earlier this year she applied for a license to keep three dingoes - and train them, at her own cost, to detect explosives. "I wanted to destroy the myths that they're untrainable and dangerous." Two months into her year-long project, the animals have surpassed her expectations. Hybrids she's tried to train for clients have been "like badly wired electrical systems," but the senses of the pure dingo - stubborn but smart - are undiluted. If they're not patrolling...