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Blue's Island - Hurricane Dolly picture

Link: The Week in Pictures.
Blue, a blue heeler, takes refuge in a potted plant fromt he floodwaters covering his front yard on Friday, July 25, north of San Carlos, Texas.  Water from Hurricane Dolly kept rising in parts of the Rio Grande Valley as other started to clean up.

Cattle Dog Siting - Davis Bowser Tie Model

What a surprise.  After surfing site after site with frou frou dogs modeling bows and bandannas, I come upon the Bowser Tie modeled by a cockney-eared ACD! Go see!

http://www.davismfg.com/prod/100212-35-Christmas++Bowser+Ties+___+Assortment+of+12QQP2C++Large.html

 

What's New?? Cattle Dog Siting

Link: Home.
Wild Dog Computer Sales & Service in Raleigh NC boasts a blue ACD in the logo.

What's New?? Movie director talks of ACD in Last of the Dogmen

Link: Last of the Dogmen-Tab Murphy.

Chat with Last of the Dogmen Writer/Director Tab Murphy

The Last of the Dogmen cast includes an Australian Cattle Dog named Zip.  In this chat room interview, the director Tab Murphy discusses the dog.  This is one for the archives.

What' New?? ACD Siting - video

Here's that Sonic The Hedgehog - next gen that features a cute cattledog in the very beginning - don't miss it... or just replay and make sure you watch the beginning

SouthCoastToday.com - Top Stories - The melting-pot pooch - November 14, 2006

Link: SouthCoastToday.com - Top Stories - The melting-pot pooch - November 14, 2006.

They never tire," says Margaret Orlowski of Acushnet, who owns two enthusiastic cattle dogs. "It's either a blessing or not," she continues, adding that she and her husband Tom own a small farm where the dogs get a lot of exercise. "They're there when you need them."

Case Cold: Unsolved Mysteries | Outside Online

Link: Case Cold: Unsolved Mysteries | Outside Online.

Finally you can see on line Ch SilverDust Cherokee Rose HSAs CD RN ROM posing as the Dingo Who Ate the Baby (or not) for Outside Magazine.

http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200611/unsolved-mysteries-3.html

Yes, she is licking her chops.

It was a 95+ degree sunset. Molly had to sit still for over 30 minutes  as various poses were requested and given.

Excerpt:
"I won't talk about what happened on that night," says Lindy Chamberlain, 58, whose 1982 trial for the murder of her two-month-old daughter, Azaria, was the O.J.-esque media spectacle of its day in Australia. "I'm not going to put myself through that trauma anymore."

Lindy's now infamous cry for help—"A dingo's got my baby!"—has spawned a thousand headlines since August 17, 1980, the night Azaria disappeared from the family's tent near Ayers Rock, in the outback of the Northern Territory. Lindy had returned from their campfire to see a dingo in the open doorway of the tent, shaking something in its mouth. Inside, the baby's crib was empty, and there was a pool of blood on the floor. An initial search of the area yielded only a few marks in the dirt, possibly the trail of a dingo dragging a baby, and a week later, pieces of Azaria's clothing were found by a tourist......

What's New?? ACD siting in demo video

Link: Web Master™ Dog Harness from Ruff Wear.
I was ordering another Webmaster Harness and decided to view their demonstration video for grins.  Much to my surprise - it features a rather unwilling blue ACD model.  Worth a peek if you have broadband.  There is also a 356K version for those on dial-up though it's pretty tiny.

What's New?? Skidboot Video

Link: Skidboot.
Remember David Hartwig and Skidboot from ACDCA 2003 nationals in Belton, Texas?  Or from Animal Planet's Dog Star?  Well, this video by the Texas Reporter is very well done and worth a few minutes.  If you're on dial-up make popcorn and get tissues while you're waiting for the fairly large file to download

What's New?? Cattle Dog Siting

Link: Wachusetts Kennel Club.
Well - maybe not new entirely - from 2004. a Wachusett's kennel club newsletter online has a friendly red cattle dog pictured in the therapy testing coverage.  Anyone recognize the handler or dog.  Wachusetts in in the DC area.