Many
Australian farms have at least one working dog, be it a kelpie, a cattle dog or
some other breed and while they are valued for their work, many are abandoned
or put down each year.

Carey & Di Edwards began Australian Working Dog Rescue International (AWDRI) to save rescue dogs from council pounds and
shelters around the country. They save them from the threat of euthanasia,
retrain them when necessary, and re-home them appropriately:
"Approximately 250,000 companion animals are euthanized each year in Australia. 120,000 of these are dogs, and 50% of them are classified as working dogs i.e. 60,000 a year."

Dogs
are Australia's unpaid farm workers. Rain, hail or shine they're out there
doing what they do best. But not every dog is cut out for this work..
- Border collies are intelligent, sensitive and eager to please.
- Australian cattle dogs are courageous, loyal and tireless.
- Kelpies are known as smart workaholics - even in the heat and the dust.
- Two years ago at the Casterton Kelpie auction, Tom, a prized stud dog from Tasmania, fetched a world record price of $12,000.
- But not every dog can be a Tom from Tasmania.

So,
when a working dog is unwanted, AWDRI and other organisations like it step in. AWDRI
gets about 10 re-homing requests a day.
Sometimes it's because the dog can't be controlled, a farmer is selling up, or
someone is shifting house or having a baby. Not every unwanted dog finds a home
and Di Edwards said getting a call from the council pound was tough.
"It's gut-wrenching sometimes, having to
pick which ones you can take, but it all depends on the temperament of the dog
and the foster home that you might have available to take those dogs," she said.

Living life on the end of a chain
At any
given time, AWDRI could have 200 to 300 dogs fostered out waiting for permanent
homes. Even so, Ms Edwards is fussy about where they go:
"We get all prospective adopters to fill
out a thorough questionnaire," she said. "We have a home check done
where we have a volunteer go and check out their fencing, meet the prospective
adopters and also check out the condition of any existing pets - just to make
sure that they are going to look after any new pup properly."

Steve
Sudero and Taleigha Emmerson from Yarra Valley Working Dogs are doing similar
work with dogs down on their luck.
“Some simply aren't cut out for work - they're slow learners - and others get injured or pregnant, and keeping them on the farm isn't always an option. Some of the dogs have lived their life
on a chain and they haven't had anything done with them and the people just get
annoyed with them," Ms Emmerson said. "So
that's when we come in."

Mr
Sudero said he and Ms Emmerson started taking in rescue dogs and training them
about four years ago.
“By the time I finish with them, they come, they know their name, they lead, they're social and these dogs can make great dogs.” Steve Sudero.
Retraining to show off intelligence
Part of
the education program run by the different groups involved showing farmers and
city dwellers what Australian working dogs were capable of, even those dogs
people had given up on. AWDRI's kelpie, Nimble, was one of those dogs.
"Nimble's probably a classic example of
that in that she was one of those dogs that was gonna be a problem dog," Mr Edwards said. "So she came to us and we just started
training her in this fashion and now she's become an ambassador for the
organisation. She does a great job at promoting what we do, in that someone's unwanted
pet can become something as good as this."

Mr
Edwards said many dogs, deemed untrainable, ended up getting shot on farms.
"Typically, on the farm, it's known as,
'What happens on the farm, stays on the farm' and lots of the dogs that
wouldn't work, they'd be either drowned or shot," he said. "It doesn't sound like a very nice
thing, but that's an extra mouth to feed out there. Most farmers, we find
they're like most people: they love their dogs."
Mr
Edwards tells prospective owners who live in the city that it's important to
exercise the dog's mind when it comes to working breeds.

"They're always thinking, they're always
wanting a job to do and it can be working sheep or doing agility, flyball or
any one of those dog sports or just simple tricks in the backyard which makes
their mind tick over," he said.
For Ms
Emmerson, letting go of the dogs which have been in their care at Yarra Valley
could be a bittersweet moment.
"We love seeing that transformation from
a dog that's not wanted to a dog that someone's applied for and really, really
wants,"
she said. "The best is when they
jump in someone's ute and go, 'See ya later' and they just go, and they don't
look behind; they're ready for their new journey."
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-26/working-dogs-not-cut-out-for-farm-work-find-new-homes/6883536
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