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Kōrero: Farm dogs

Whārangi 7. Hononga, rauemi nō waho

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

  • A dog's show

    A 1981 episode of the popular series showing farm-dog trials, on the NZ On Screen website.

  • Dogstar

    A 1986 documentary about working dogs on sheep farms, on the NZ On Screen website.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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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.