Working school for dogs… and their owners

Dogs and their owners were put through their paces at a working dog training school. Take a squizz at the cracker shots taken at the event.

NQ Dry Tropics held a working dog school for Burdekin graziers to take the guesswork out of training a dog.

The three-day course was run by expert trainer Tony Cock and was hosted at Severnvale Station, Charters Towers.

Äll knowledge levels — for humans and dogs — attended, including starting pups and dogs that were already working but needed some fine-tuning.

Participants learned how to ‘read’ stock to help understand where their dog needed to be while working stock.

The working dog school was supported by The Herding Change Through Grassroots Recovery project, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, and the Grazing Resilience and Sustainable Solutions (GRASS) program funded through the Queensland Government’s Queensland Reef Water Quality Program and delivered by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) and NQ Dry Tropics.