AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG

breed of medium-sized herding dog developed in Australia. It stands from 18 to 20 in. (45.7–50.8 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs about 33 lb (15 kg). Its double coat consists of a soft, dense underlayer and a moderately short, straight topcoat that forms a fringe of slightly longer hair on the back of the forelegs and thighs. The coat may be blue, blue mottle, or red speckled in color. Believed to be the product of crosses among the Australian kelpie, the dingo, and the smooth collie, the Australian cattle dog ranks among the world's best herding dogs. It is sometimes called the Australian heeler, a name derived from the dog's habit of nipping at the heels of stray cattle to direct them back to the herd. The breed is exhibited in the miscellaneous class at dog shows sanctioned by the American Kennel Club. See dog.

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books on: Australian Cattle Dog  - 36 results

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Possums and Bird Dogs: Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam
Book by Peter Nolan; Allen & Unwin, 2006
Subjects: Australia--Army Aviation Corp--Reconnaissance Flight, 161--History, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Aerial Operations, Australian, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal Narratives, Australian, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Regimental Histories--Australia
...liaison andVR sorties. The Australian forces again learned much and...the allied forces. Jim Gun Dog Crook spent three weeks at Vo...aircraft. Nobody had to use a cattle prod to get us to dig in and...did the shooting. I think a dog must have tripped it. But these...
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Australian People and Animals in Today's Dreamtime: The Role of Comparative Psychology in the Management of Natural Resources
Book by David B. Croft; Praeger Publishers, 1991
Subjects: Animal Rights--Australia--Congresses, Australian Aborigines--Psychology--Congresses, Australian Aborigines--Religion--Congresses, Dreams--Australia--Congresses, Human Ecology--Australia--Congresses, Human-Animal Relationships--Australia--Congresses, Mythology, Australian Aboriginal--Congresses
...amongst the sheep and cattle and drank at the same...emergence of an independent Australian nation in 1901, the...started to reflect on an Australian identity. Faunal symbols...among others. Today Australians are being confronted...offer kangaroo on every Australian table to enjoy the...who love their cat or dog and feed it kangaroo...
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The Pattern of Australian Culture
Book by A. L. McLeod; Cornell University Press, 1963
Subjects: Australia--Civilization
...barb, types of sheep dogs; Polwarth, an Australian breed of sheep first...scrubbers, pikers, myalls, cattle that have run wild in...hatracks, lean and scraggy cattle; bangtail muster, a...unbranded calves; duffer, a cattle thief, whence duffing...bluey, a type of cattle dog; Illawarra shorthorn...
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The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
Book by Graham Seal; University of New South Wales Press, 1999
Subjects: Australianisms, English Language--Australia--Slang, English Language--Social Aspects--Australia, English Language--Spoken English--Australia
...basis for still more distinctively Australian rhymes, including: BABBLING BROOK...for CROOK, meaning unwell, sick; CATTLE DOG for catalogue; CHINA PLATE for mate...southern Europe ; CHOCOLATE FROG for DOG, underworld slang for an informer...
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Vanishing Australians
Book by George Farwell, Douglas Maxted; Rigby, 1961
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Australia
...the deep blue of a cloudless sky and the furnacered of sand. This is not sheep-country but cattle-country. It is also the home of the wild dog. The six thousand miles of fencing may keep these marauders from the sheep-lands on the inner...
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journal articles on: Australian Cattle Dog  - 79 results

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Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Authors--Addresses, essays, lectures, Coren, Stanley--Addresses, essays, lectures, Dog breeds--Social aspects, Dog owners--Psychology and mental health, Dogs--Social aspects, Psychologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...good-natured and tolerant dogs Basset Hound Beagle Bernese Mountain Dog Bloodhound Bouvier De Flandre...Deerhound Group 7: Clever Dogs - includes observant and trainable dogs Australian Cattle Dog Australian Shepherd Belgian...
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Object Permanence in Dogs: Invisible Displacement in a Rotation Task
Journal article by Holly C. Miller, Cassie D. Gipson, Aubrey Vaughan, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, Thomas R. Zentall; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol. 16, 2009
Subjects: Ability, Behavior, Dogs
...reinforcers were nearby. Dogs were excluded if...to deprive the dog of food for at...participating. Of the dogs that participated...Club as herding dogs (11 Belgian tervuren, 5 Australian shepherds, 4 border...an Australian cattle dog, and a German...
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Medical Surveillance of Search Dogs Deployed to the World Trade Center and Pentagon: 2001-2006
Journal article by Cynthia M. Otto, Amanda B. Downend, George E. Moore, Joanne K. Daggy, D. Lauren Ranivand, Jennifer A. Reetz, Scott D. Fitzgerald; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 73, 2010
Subjects: Morbidity--Comparative analysis, Natural immunity--Comparative analysis, Search and rescue dogs--Physiological aspects, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001
...deployed dogs and four control dogs, but no dog had persistently elevated glucose...in 28 samples from 21 control dogs. No dog in either group was hypokalemic...Airedale Terrier 2 <br/ Australian Cattle Dog 2 <br/ Australian Shepherd...
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Les Murray: A Selective Checklist
Journal article by Carol Hetherington; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2001
Subjects: Australia--Literature, Authors, Australian--Bibliography, Murray, Les--Bibliography
...ALS Guide to Australian Writers; A Bibliography...200 copies. Dog Fox Field. North...Spermacetti, `Cattle Egret, `Comete...Duwell, Weekend Australian, 19-20 August...Weekend 9. Dog Fox Field...Killing the Black Dog: Essays and...Page, The Australians Review of Books...Richardson, Weekend Australian 23-24 Nov...
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Folie, Topography and Family in Murray's Middle-Distance Poems
Journal article by Christopher Pollnitz; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2001
Subjects: Australian poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, Australian--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Family--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Murray, Les--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Topology--Social aspects
...Augustan tone dominant in Australian poetry for more than...Tormenting me. I fled down cattle tracks Chest-deep in...Curse of Cromwell when dogs bark from a clearing...should hear the barking of dogs from a clearing where...essay `Killing the Black Dog (13-14) and told...lifted while `riding in a cattle-truck between Tennant...
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magazine articles on: Australian Cattle Dog  - 28 results

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Sensing Technology Has Yet to Beat a Dog's Nose
Magazine article by Harold Kennedy; National Defense, Vol. 90, November 2005
Subjects: Animal training, Customs & Border Protection-US, National security, Police dogs, Sensitivity, Technology, United States
...The facility also accepts dogs donated by private owners...addition, the agency buys some dogs through contract vendors, paying up to $4,500 per dog. "Were always looking for dogs-especially after 9/11...1998, when it received 12 Australian detector dogs with the working...
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Dog Chases Whale Scat
Magazine article by Kirsten Weir; The Scientist, Vol. 20, August 2006
Dog Chases Whale Scat by...boat carrying a stocky Australian cattle dog named Gator. When Gators...11 scat-detection dogs at the Center for Conservation...employing detection dogs to track the scat. Not just any dog can do the job. Detection...
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Coping with a Lion Killer
Magazine article by Craig Packer; Natural History, Vol. 105, June 1996
Subjects: Disease, Dogs, Epidemics, Serengeti National Park, Veterinary services, Wildcats
...rinderpest (a disease of cattle and other cud-chewing...infected a stable of Australian horses in 1991...distemper. But domestic dogs are another story...30,000 domestic dogs live within ten miles...region, the domestic dog is the critical link...distemper from the dogs to wild carnivores...infected herd of cattle to Ethiopia or when...
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Citizen Canine
Magazine article by Edward Tenner; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Summer 1998
Subjects: Dogs--Political aspects, National characteristics--Analysis
...scientific research on dog origins remain in their...Basset Hound blood. The Australian Shepherd was developed...reviled by European Australians as a livestock pest...might continue that dogs are most comfortable...specific sizes of sheep or cattle. Industrialization...military and police dogs are shepherds.) The ultimate national-dog paradox may be that...
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Telling the Stories of Their Land
Magazine article by Nick Haslam; Geographical, Vol. 82, January 2010
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians--Employment, Australian aborigines--Employment, Tourism--Economic aspects, Tourism--Social aspects, Travel industry--Economic aspects, Travel industry--Social aspects
...chairman of the Western Australian Indigenous Tourism Operators...Valley Station, a vast cattle ranch covering 2,490...the life of a working cattle station. ILLUSTRATION...Aboriginals working in the cattle stations. The original...mother used to wear a dog tag so that she could...
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newspaper articles on: Australian Cattle Dog  - 162 results

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This Nugget Is Solid Gold; Stokers Siding Kelpie Named Australia's Best Working Cattle Dog
Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), November 10, 2009
Subjects: Beef cattle
...Kelpie Named Australias Best Working Cattle Dog. Byline: peter caton SIX-year...national celebrity. The hard-working cattle dog has just been awarded the title of Australian Open Working Cattle Dog of the Year for 2009. His master...
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Working Dogs Bound for Glory; Alstonville to Host Cattle Trial Championships
Newspaper article; The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia), April 30, 2011
Subjects: Beef cattle
...Glory; Alstonville to Host Cattle Trial Championships. Byline...Ballina reporter PUT 400 working dogs and 700 head of cattle in two rings at the Alstonville Showgrounds and you get the Australian Working Dog Cattle Trial Championships. This...
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Tatham Man Claims State of Origin Titles; Robert Johnston's Dog Trialling Successes in Queensland Are Probably an Australian First
Newspaper article; The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia), November 12, 2010
Subjects: Johnston, Robert
...Queensland Are Probably an Australian First. Byline: MEL...was where his love of dogs began. Instead of school...friends, the farms working dogs became his best mates...lifelong love of working dogs paid off last week when...at the State of Origin Dog Trials at Glencoe, in...moving three head of cattle through a five-to...
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Sausage Dogs, the Four-Legged Fiends
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 7, 2008
Subjects: Dogs
...interviews with 6,000 dog owners by researchers...generally been based on dog bite statistics. But bites from larger dogs are more likely to...prevalent in small dogs than large and its...Russellterrier 4) Akita 5) Australian cattle dog 6) Pit Bull 7...
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Fiercest Dog Is, Er. a Sausage; HELLHOUNDS
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 7, 2008
Subjects: Dogs
Fiercest Dog Is, Er. a Sausage...the tiny sausage dog thats the most aggressive...or attacked other dogs. Chihuahuas, an...Top 10 aggressive dogs: 1 Dachshund 2 Chihuahua...terrier 4 Akita 5 Australian cattle dog 6 Pit bull 7 Beagle...
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encyclopedia articles on: Australian Cattle Dog  - 2 results

 
 
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Australian Cattle Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG breed of medium-sized herding...smooth collie, the Australian cattle dog ranks among the worlds best herding dogs. It is sometimes called the...nipping at the heels of stray cattle to direct them back to the herd...
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Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pomeranian , and the pug belong to the toy dog class. The nonsporting dog group is a class of dogs bred principally as pets and companions...Included are the Akita of Japan, the Australian cattle dog , the Australian kelpie , the Bichon Frise...


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