Editing Dingo (section)

===Domestic status===
The dingo is regarded as a [[feral]] dog because it descended from domesticated ancestors.<ref name=greig2016/><ref name=jackson2017/> The dingo's relationship with Indigenous Australians is one of [[commensalism]], in which two organisms live in close association, but do not depend on each other for survival. They both hunt and sleep together. The dingo is, therefore, comfortable enough around humans to associate with them, but is still capable of living independently.<ref name=pierotti2017/> Any free-ranging, unowned dog can be socialised to become an owned dog, as some dingoes do when they join human families.<ref name=miklosi2015/> Although the dingo exists in the wild,<ref name=smithC3/> it associates with humans, but has not been [[Selective breeding|selectively bred]] unlike other [[Domestication|domesticated]] animals.<ref name=jackson2015/><ref name=smithC3/> Therefore, its status as a domestic animal is not clear.<ref name=jackson2015/> Whether the dingo was a wild or domesticated species was not clarified from Meyer's original description, which translated from the German language reads:

<blockquote>It is not known if it is the only dog species in New South Wales, and if it can also still be found in the wild state; however, so far it appears to have lost little of its wild condition; moreover, no divergent varieties have been discovered.<ref name=meyer1793/></blockquote>