Wild Dog & Hyena The African Wild Dog, also known as Painted Dogs, is one of the most threatened animal species in Namibia, listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. Therefore every effort is made to conserve every individual dog that might be in danger. When Marlice gets a call from a farmer who has two young wild dogs that he keeps in an old farm dam she and Rudie waste no time in flying to the farm to collect the pups.