Predator shot after sheep carnage in Western Division

Mr Wheaton and his wife Lou run Boorooma Merinos and they feared for their flock after finding 35, 10-month-old lambs dead or attacked in four days.

The nature of the wounds alarmed Mr Wheaton who noticed all sheep had been bitten on the tail end of the loin area where the dingo had attacked the kidneys.

"Every sheep we found dead or wounded was attacked in the same fashion. That's when we realised this was no escaped dog," he said.

The Wheatons were puzzled as to what triggered the sudden massacre across 4047 hectares of their 19,425-hectare property "Boorooma".

After finding the carnage, the mob was moved 10 kilometres, only to be attacked again.

"It's like having a murderer in the neighbourhood. Apart from the financial loss, it has such an impact on you personally," Mr Wheaton said.

Marc Boothey, "Hampden", The Rock, is a friend of the Wheatons and shot the dingo a fortnight ago after a 50-minute chase on a four-wheel motorbike on their property.

Farmers from the area travelled from 50km away to view the notorious dingo - the same one believed to be behind reports from a local producer last year of the killing of 130 lambs and 100 sheep across 12 months, according to Mr Boothey.

"There'd been sightings of the dingo on trail cameras. A bloke 30km up the road said it's the same one he tried to run down three years ago in a fallow paddock," he said.

The dingo is believed to have been five to seven years old and weighed 18.6 kilograms.

While there hasn't been an attack since, Mr Wheaton said he wasn't naive to think this was the last dingo.

"This area lends itself very much to growing good Merino wool, and this has the potential, if we don't stop the flow of dogs and now dingoes, to create some enormous headaches for the future."