Interesting overview of dingoes. While they're not exactly dogs, or at least not the same species as domestic dogs, the difference is kind of subtle. They do resemble dogs more than other wild canids do. One might very well mistake them for such. It's only when you notice that they're traveling in packs and don't seem to have any humans in charge of them that the difference becomes glaring. What we seem to be looking at is a slightly earlier stage of canine evolution.
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The overview of dingoes in the video was pretty interesting. I'd always thought they were native to Australia but that appears to be wrong - 4,000 years and likely carried there by boats. It makes you wonder if Australian marsupials were a recognized oddity among hunters at the time.
Dingoes do seem to share a number of characteristics with wolves including the fact they're able to interbreed with domestic dogs. You're very likely right they're an earlier form of canine and now I wonder just how much that will affect the breed in the long term? It's likely there'll always be packs of wild dingoes.
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