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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: 7 Words That Dogs Can Understand (And 4 That No Dog Can)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:28:27 +1300
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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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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