National Geographic: Those Wonderful Dogs Page #2
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'Right hand' (he whistles)
'Stop' (he whistles)"
"When he's finished the job,
you have two commands to call him off
One's 'Well a go' and the
other one is (he whistles). Well a go"
"It's hard to believe
how tough dogs are
And on this property they work
in extreme conditions in
all types of weather
Even with a dog in those
sort of conditions
everything might be against him
He might have cut feet, he might
have snowballs built up on him
They will always try and run
they will always try their
best to do and complete
the job that you've
put in front of them"
Like army sergeants on alert,
the dogs keep the flock moving
In one week's time
the remarkable team of two people
and their
ten steadfast dogs have completed
the roundup
"A dog's work is never done
And when he finishes on the hill
he comes into the real hard work
of slogging in the hot yards
The hotter it gets, the more the sheep
put their heads down and won't go
And we tend to only work
with one or two dogs in the yards
so that we can alternate them
so that each dog gets a turn
because it is hot and dry
dusty, dirty work"
Because of the intense heat
don't want to move
creating traffic jams
in the tight confines of the pen
To find the offenders the dogs
simply make
a sidewalk out of the backs of
the sheep
After a chemical dip for protection
against external parasites
the sheep will be set free to wander up
to the
high country again
to graze until the next roundup
And then, once more,
when the shepherds head for the hills
their canine partners
will be by their sides
"For us to spend a day
on the hill
horse and dogs
the companionship and love
and hard work that they give to us
any other animal in the world"
The New Zealand
farmer and his dog
have become
a world-famous partnership
Today, more than
are on the job
across the country
Probably the most
photographed is this one
a public tribute
to the dogs that help
keep the economy
so vital and alive
The origins
of the domesticated dog
lie shrouded
in the distant past
but it is generally
agreed that the dog evolved from
the wolf or that both share
a common ancestor
Wolves and dogs have
the same basic anatomy
physiology, and
patterns of behavior
and underneath the dog's
domestic facade
lie the instincts
of a predatory hunter
Wolves live and hunt in packs
Unlike other meat-eaters
such as members of the cat family
wolves stalk chase
after, and run down prey
However
as the wolf quickly learns
even with the
cooperation of the pack
he is no match for
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