A DINGO has tried to snatch a WA toddler from a remote beach in the Kimberley region.

The wild dog attacked the baby girl, biting her on the nappy, as she sat with her parents as they enjoyed an evening picnic on Friday at a beach at the Kooljaman resort at Cape Leveque.

The girl’s alarmed parents quickly chased the dingo away, but the animal did manage to bite their daughter.

A spokesman for the wilderness camp said the bite did break the child’s skin but it did not draw blood.

It is understood the dingo first attacked the child’s teddy bear before biting her.

Camera Icon A dingo has tried to snatch a toddler as she sat with her parents on a beach similar to this one at Cape Leveque in WA’s Kimberley Region. Credit: Supplied

Her mother, Christine Dwyer, told ABC radio the dingo then tried to drag her daughter backwards but “only got six inches”.

“She tried to crawl away and was crying, and it just ran back in and grabbed her on the back and buttocks,” Ms Dwyer said.

She explained nearby resort staff rushed to their aid and were able to help their daughter.

“They were very helpful, they continued to shoo it away and took us up to the nurses to make sure she didn’t need any tetanus injections or anything like that, and just clean up the little scratches and puncture wounds that she received through the nappy,” she said.

And while Ms Dwyer said she was grateful for the quick actions of staff she told the ABC she was also disappointed to learn the dingo that attacked her daughter was a serial pest.

She said she was told resort staff had tried to trap the animal the night before the attack but failed to catch it.

“They (the staff) actually informed us that this one dingo has been a nuisance since January and that they’ve requested on numerous occasions to have it dealt with but it hasn’t happened,” Ms Dwyer told the ABC. “Talking to people here there are numerous stories of it starting to be a pest and annoy people on the beach and be just a bit too brazen.

“We were a little bit disappointed in the sense that if they’ve known that it’s been a nuisance for three months, why does it take for it to actually bite or attack before somebody acts?”

Ms Dwyer said Shire of Broome rangers shot a small female dog on Saturday which turned out not to be the dog that attacked the toddler but it was now believed the right dingo had been destroyed.

The attack against the toddler comes nearly 36 years after Azaria Chamberlain was killed by a dingo in Uluru in a case that attracted the attention of the nation, after her mother Lindy was convicted of murder and jailed but released after three years when that decision was overturned.