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Kōrero: Farm dogs

All in a day’s work

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All in a day’s work

Dogs work hard on hill or high-country properties. Here, a dog is racing up a ridge to head off a mob of ewes on Orari Gorge Station, South Canterbury, while two of its mates wait with the farmer.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-000399; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Clive Dalton, Farm dogs – Feeding, housing and health, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15335/all-in-a-days-work (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Clive Dalton, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.