Buying and Selling Boorara Volume One Part A.
Australian Cattle Dog and cattle stations.
The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD), or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain. This breed is a medium-sized, short-coated dog that occurs in two main colour forms. It has either brown or black hair distributed fairly evenly through a white coat, which gives the appearance of a “red” or “blue” dog.
SOURCElAustralian Cattle Dog – Wikipedia
But who made excellent use of the this Cattle Dog?
The Squatters? The Pioneers? The men and women who managed cattle stations over the 152 years of history?
Read the book to find out more about Boorara Station Queensland. Maybe there is an Australian Cattle Dog or two in the three volumes of Buying and Selling Boorara.
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BUYING AND SELLING BOORARA.
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Australian Cattle Dog on the station.
Cattle Dog or outback station. In the end it might be the same thing because many stockmen had a need for a great dog, and how about the cattle dog?
Before helicopters and gyros, there was the dog. The good ol’ faithful cattle dog. One was called the Australian Cattle Dog, and maybe there was none better.
An interesting and true story, Buying and Selling Boorara has a lot of information on cattle stations. Perchance there might be something about mustering with dogs.
AUSTRALIAN DOG AND QUOTE.
“Did You Know?
The Australian Cattle Dog is in the top 10 in terms of intelligence and trainability.
This terrific Cattle Dog is also known as the Australian Heeler, Blue Heeler, the Queensland Heeler, and the Red Heeler. It is a herding dog that had been developed in Australia to control cattle. It loves to run around and always have an activity at hand. Given below are some interesting facts about the Blue Heeler.”
SOURCE: Truly Interesting Facts about Australian Cattle Dogs (Blue Heelers) – DogAppy
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG AND MORE.
According to the website, the precursors to the modern Aussie Cattle Dog were first introduced by Thomas Simpson Hall. This is noted as being in or around 1840.
THE BLUE HEELER SITE ADDS:
“Hall’s family had numerous cattle stations spread over many areas, and he needed to herd thousands of cattle over many miles every day. The Australian dogs were incapable of achieving this task. The colonial dogs, known as Smithfields, were not very useful either. They belonged to breeds designed to herd sheep over short distances. Hall tried to remedy this problem by importing several cattle-droving dogs from his home county of Northumberland. After having limited success with the British breeds, he then bred the imported dogs with an Australian wild dog breed known as the dingo. The resulting breed served Hall well until his death in 1870. Hall had not let others use these dogs (known as Halls Heelers), since they gave him a clear advantage in his trade.”
Here is a picture of a Red Heeler. This is an Australian Cattle Dog.
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