Kōrero: Farm dogs
Whārangi 7. Hononga, rauemi nō waho
Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki
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A dog's show
A 1981 episode of the popular series showing farm-dog trials, on the NZ On Screen website.
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Dogstar
A 1986 documentary about working dogs on sheep farms, on the NZ On Screen website.
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New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Association
This site lists the year’s events and results, and has a newsletter and other information about dog training and breeding.
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Working dog index
This page on the Lifestyle Block website features a variety of articles on training, feeding and housing farm dogs.
Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga
- Ball, Murray. Footrot Flats: the dog strips. Auckland: Hodder Moa, 2007.
- Gordon, John. Three sheep and a dog: an insider’s view of New Zealand sheep dog trialling. Auckland: Reed, 1998.
- Hartley, C. W. G. The shepherd’s dogs – their training for mustering and trial work. 3rd ed. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1968.
- Winstanley, Lionel. Hobnails, hounds and humour: autobiography of a high country musterer, farmer, farm manager, dog trial competitor. Blenheim: L. Winstanley, 1994.
- Oliver, Michael, and Sheild, Tony. I am a working dog: natural training for sheepdogs. Dunedin: Longacre, 2004.
- Rennie, Neil. Working dogs. Auckland: Shortland, 1984.
- Newton, Peter. Wayleggo. Wellington, Reed, 1966.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Clive Dalton, Farm dogs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/4263/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
He kōrero nā Clive Dalton, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.