Story: Farm dogs

More links and websites

• 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.

More suggestions and sources

• 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.