Re: 7 Words That Dogs Can Understand (And 4 That No Dog Can)

On 14/03/2025 1:15 p.m., Peter Moylan wrote:

On 14/03/25 00:59, Janet wrote:
 

In Australia, they use real dogs to herd sheep
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Kelpie

 In the TV show I mentioned, the teasers ask whether the collies or the
kelpies will win in the Dog Trials. I guess I'll hear the answer eventually.
 The Dog in Footrot Flats, a popular NZ comic book series, is a collie.
 

Scotland's kelpies are much bigger and tougher.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kelpies

 I do admire creative ideas in sculpture. Australia has, unfortunately,
gone overboard in the matter of giant animals. I think it started with
the Big Merino, a giant statue of a sheep just outside Goulburn in NSW,
but by now lots of towns have introduced their Big Things. In Hexham,
just near Newcastle, there's a horrible-looking Big Mosquito, in
recognition of the denizens of the Hexham Swamp[1].
 [1] I think the politically correct term now is the Hexham Wetlands, but
everyone I know calls it the Hexham Swamp.
 

A little crossroads called Tirau (NZ) has a Big Dog (the tourist information office) and a couple of Big Sheep (a souvenir shop), all in corrugated iron. There's also a Shepherd, but he's not to scale, and not in typical NZ costume. (He's in front of a church.)
https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/tirau-town.html