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c.1920 |
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A shepherd, believed to be Henry Rewell, with a Beardie-like
dog in England. This image was provided from a collector of
historic items who asked that his name remain anonymous. |
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c.1920 |
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Maureen Sale used this image in an article she authored see
1995 in the "Timeline section"). Andrew Hall, the Editor of the
Working Sheepdog News (which later became the
International Sheepdog News), researched his records and
found that the print was originally purchased at Crufts; it was
indicated it was taken c.1920. The same image appeared in a 1942
book entitled Everyman's Dog by Major Mitford Brice.
Permission was granted by both Maureen Sale and Andrew Hall to
reproduce the image here. |
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1922 |
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Robert Leighton's The
Complete Book of the Dog was published.
In the chapter on the Old
English Sheepdog, it was written that the breed was established
approximately 100 years earlier, and that "a variant of the
breed is known in Scotland, too, as the Bearded Collie who
differs chiefly by reason that his coat is less woolly and that
he is in possession of a tail, the amputation of which, in the
Southern variety, is a recognized custom in England."
Though Aubrey Hopwood wrote
about the Old English Sheepdog for Leighton's 1907 and 1910
books, it is believed Leighton used his own words, borrowing
from the earlier works, for this 1922 book. |
1923 |
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J. Maxtee revised (as a 5th edition) Hugh Dalziel's The
Collie: Its History, Points, and Breeding. Maxtee renamed
the third edition to: The Collie as a Show Dog, Companion, and
Worker. Maxtee revised it a 4th time, which was released in 1921.
Maxtee also revised it in 1923 (5th edition). The 5th edition
included an image of Panmure Gordon's dog, Jock, on page 88. |
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1924
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Publication of Rowland Johns'
book Dogs You'd Like to Meet. Were any of the images he
used Beardie-like dogs? |
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d.1927 |
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Walter Wooler posed for a picture
with a shaggy sheepdog. This picture appeared in Barkley Wills'
Bypaths in
Downland, published in 1927. It is believed this picture was
taken around the mid-1920s. Mr. Wooler died on April 23, 1936 at Pyecombe
at the age of 79.
Some viewers might enjoy seeing the buyer's receipt for this
book, dated October 1927. |
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1927 |
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Albert Gorringe with Beardie |
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Mr. Albert Gorringe was the son of Mr. Solomon
Gorringe. He is standing behind a Beardie-like dog on the right
side of the image. This picture also appeared
in Barkley Wills' book Bypaths in
Downland. If you look carefully, a covered wagon can be seen
in the background behind the sheep. Such wagons were often where
the shepherds slept at night, as well as keeping various items
needed to carry out their shepherding duties. |
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1927 |
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Edward Ash, authored Dogs: Their History and Development (1927). Clifford
Hubbard, in his book The Literature of British Dogs
(1949) stated: "The last and undoubtedly the greatest work on
the dog ever printed in English is Dogs: Their History and
Development (1927) by Edward C. Ash."
Hubbard went on to state: "Of all
the published literature on the dog, in any language, Ash's
Dogs: Their History and Development remains the supreme
effort for original work and investigation."
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1929 |
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Shaggy Sheepdog |
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An unidentified shepherd
posed for this picture with a shaggy sheepdog.
This image appeared in Barkley Wills' book
Downland Treasure (1929). |
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c.1930
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Shepherds in South Downs
Shepherd from the South of England
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Andrew Hall acquired two images and graciously agreed to
share them for inclusion on this website. The first image is a
group of men in the South Downs being visited by the local
priest. Notice the dogs appear to be Beardies.
The other image is a shepherd from the South of England.
Again, another Beardie working for his master.
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c.1930 |
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A shepherd, believed to be Arthur Rusbridge,
posed for a picture. There is a Beardie-like dog in the middle.
Provided by an anonymous source. That individual was
certain it was Mr. Rusbridge. |
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c.1930 |
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David Breach and Beardie |
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The date of this
photograph is unknown, but it was placed here because it is believed to
have been taken in the 1930s. This
photo appeared in "This England" magazine in the Spring of
1981 on page 65 and in the Winter of 1981, page 67.
It was provided for use on this website
courtesy of the Worthing Museum. It is copyrighted and not to be
reproduced without contacting the Museum to make arrangements
for licensing to be granted. |
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c. 1930 |
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F. T. Daws |
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This image of a painting was provided courtesy
of Sue O'Brien. The painting is believed to have been
rendered by Frederick T. Daws (b. 1878). His date of death is
unknown, but believed to be around 1930. |
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1931
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Balmacneil Jock
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A. Croxton Smith published a book entitled About Our Dogs
in 1931. In the 1950 edition, an image of Balmacneil Jock
appeared between pages 80 and 81. It is believed that this image
was included in the first edition. Jock was whelped February 27,
1926 from a mating between Mr. Scott's dog, Rover, and a bitch
named Ninewells Nell. In June of 1928, Vicarsford Scottie was
transferred from Mr. Scott to Mrs. Cameron-Miller, who then
changed the name to Balmacneil Jock. Mrs. Miller was listed as
being "Mrs. E. Cameron-Miller of Balmacneil, Ballinluig,
Perthshire."
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1931 |
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Edward Ash's The
Practical Dog Book, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931, was
published. |
1933 |
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Barker, K. F.
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K. F. Barker provided several sketches of Beardies in her
books. |
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c.1934 |
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John
Beecher |
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Barkley Wills' photograph of John Beecher.
Permission was granted
by Peter Austin from the “Sussex County Magazine” to present the
image on this website strictly for educational use. It is not to
be used for any commercial purpose without first contacting the
magazine. |
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1935 |
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Hutchinson |
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Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopedia (1935). A Beardie-like
with his shepherd. |
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d.1935 |
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Jim |
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Cecil Aldin (1870-1935), a very
well known British artist and illustrator, did a painting of a
Beardie-like dog. This image was entitled "Jim." Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd.
Aldin used another Beardie-like type of dog in "Bluemarket
Races." The image showed only the back of the dog and was more
of a caricature type of work as opposed to a painting. |
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1935
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Biz
Biz and Joey
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Ada Galsworthy authored a charming book entitled The Dear
Dog. She married John Galsworthy (the famous author) in
1905. She was his second wife, and the couple leased property at
Wingstone Manor (in the village of Manaton in Dartmoor Forest).
The properly is located on the edge of a moor where
hundreds of sheep resided. A preparer for this website spoke
with Mrs. Kapff, an owner of the property in September of 2009
(when the property was advertised as being "for sale").
While the Galsworthy couple lived at Wingstone Manor, two
working sheepdogs (one who really didn't want to work) seemed to
make their way into the Galsworthys' lives. You need to read the
book to learn how all that happened.
Biz was described as: "a small, well-bred Old English
sheepdog, bobtail... ." It would be hard to argue that Biz
certainly appeared to be a Beardie, and that Mrs. Galsworthy
likely didn't know that such a breed existed. She also described
Joey as a proper working sheepdog, being: "large, perfectly
white, dark-eyed, rather tragic clown... ." Joey also appeared
to be a Beardie. |
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1937 |
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Dunford-1
Dunford-2 |
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JImmy Dunford on the Salisbury Plain in the
deep snow with Beardie dated December 8, 1937. The
Dunford-2 image appeared in the book The Countryside
Remembered, by Sadie Ward, (1991), page 71.
These photographs are licensed by the
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) to this website. They are not to be
reproduced in any manner without contacting MERL at the
University of Reading in order to make arrangements for
licensing use. |
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1937 |
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Bob-tail Sheepdog |
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Vere Temple was an illustrator and the author of a
book entitled An Artist Goes to the Dogs, published in 1937.
Her "Bobtailed Sheepdog" painting certainly appeared
almost identical to merle Beardies still being produced by some
individuals in the U.K. today. The viewer
clearly can see how similar some of the breeds were or are. |
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1938 |
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Tom
Godden |
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The date of this photograph is unknown.
The shepherd in the image was Tom Godden, head looker of Castle Farm near Camber Castle,
standing with
a sheep dog and his long crook. Barkley Wills also included a different
picture of Tom Godden with "Turk" of Winchelsea (name of the
dog) in his third book entitled Shepherds of
Sussex. This picture was provided
for use on this website courtesy of the Worthington Museum. It is
copyrighted and not to be reproduced without contacting the
Museum to make arrangements for licensing to be granted. |
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1938
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McCulloch
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John Herries McCulloch authored Sheep Dogs and Their
Masters. This image was in a later 1940 book (Page 60) and labeled
"A Pair of Old-Fashioned 'Beardies' Waiting for Orders." The
photo was taken by Robert Adam. Because the image is believed to
have appeared in the 1938 first edition, it was placed here. The
date the photograph was taken is unknown. The image has appeared
in other publications.
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1939 |
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Edward Ash's book The New Book of the
Dog: A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to their History,
Pedigree, Breeding, Exhibiting Points, Ailments, etc., New
York: The Macmillan Company, 1939, was published. The Bearded
Collie was only mentioned on page 40, where Ash was describing
dogs discussed by a previously author, Hugh Dalziel. The listing
included the following quote: "Bearded
Collie.—(Closely Curled hair.)" Those were the only words
which appeared on that page regarding a Bearded Collie. |
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1939 |
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Eternal Trust |
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This photograph has the name "Eternal Trust"
written on the back. It was dated 1939 by the Museum of English
Rural Life. This photo
also appeared on the cover of The Millennium Book 2000 by The
Southern Counties Bearded Collie Club.
This photograph is licensed by the
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) to this website. It is not to be
reproduced in any manner without contacting MERL at the
University of Reading in order to make arrangements for
licensing use. |
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c. 1939 |
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Beardie, Lamb and Shepherd |
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This image appears to be the same dog with the same man in
the background which appeared on the cover of The Millennium
Book 2000 mentioned above. |
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c.1940 |
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A Working Beardie |
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Shepherd Turner posed with his working
Beardie in England. The exact date is not known. The picture appeared in a
book where the subject was showing a man in typical shepherds' clothing.
All attempts to secure copyright
permission were met without success. Hopefully, the showing of
the shepherd's dog (representing a small portion of the entire picture) will
not be challenged due to this being an educational website. |
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c.1940 |
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Ellis
Bradford-1
Ellis
Bradford-2
Ellis
Bradford-3
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Three poor quality
images (unfortunately) have been approved
to be placed on this website by Ellis Bradford's granddaughter,
Mrs. Hylands, who lives in a small village named Lullington. She
indicated her grandfather was born in either 1891 or 1892, as he
died at 80 years of age in June, 1972. The images are not
dated, but they are believed to have been taken around the early 1940s. Mr. Bradford lost
one leg in the war. Sitting next to his Beardie in the one
picture, the dog looks quite large. It is one of those shots where
the camera made the dog look "out of perspective" due to being
so close to the camera. Were it not for the family's knowledge
that the dog was a Beardie-like dog, there would be plenty of
viewers who might think the first image was an Old English
Sheepdog. |
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d.1941 |
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Cozy Place
Mother's Love |
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Samuel Fulton (1855-1941), a
British artist, painted two oil
paintings of the same Beardie-like dog. The dates are unknown for
these paintings. They are placed here based upon the date of
death for the artist. |
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d.1943
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Earl Painting
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Maud Earl, born in 1864, was a well known British-American
canine painter. Most writings about her paintings indicate she
was quite accurate in recording the many breeds she painted. The
image presented is often described as a Bearded Collie. Not
knowing the date, it was placed here based upon the year of the
artist's death. |
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1945 |
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A. Croxton Smith authored British Dogs
(1945) and included the Reinagle painting in color. (See 1803
for "Reinagle" entry in the "Timeline" section to view the
painting.) Smith had nothing to
say in his 1945 book regarding a Beardie-like dog, but he
included a caption ("Old English Sheepdog") for the Reinagle
image. Smith may have known about Beardies when he wrote About Our Dogs
(see 1931 entry above). It is believed that Mrs.
Cameron-Miller's Jock appeared in the 1931 first edition; the
image was definitely included in the 1950 edition. |
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1945 |
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Clifford L. B. Hubbard's book, The
Observer's Book of Dogs (~1945) had a short write up on page
198, near the end of the book:
"COLLIE (BEARDED)
Highland Cattle; Mountain Collie
Unfortunately this variety (which really
has all the distinction of a breed) is extremely rare to-day,
only a few first-class dogs being found in Peebleshire where it
is still maintained by discriminating drovers. The Bearded
Collie is older than the smart Rough-coated Collie and is
probably part ancestor of the Old English Sheepdog.
Height 22in. Coat long, hard and shaggy,
with good beard. Head square; body short."
He also mentioned the Bearded on page
49, under his short write up on the Smooth-haired Collie:
"The Smooth-haired Collie (like the
Highland or Bearded) is an uncommon variety of the breed, which
merits a better degree of popularity than it has received as
yet." |
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1946 |
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Harry Pitt and
Beardie |
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This photograph is licensed by the
Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) to this website. It is not to be
reproduced in any manner without contacting MERL at the
University of Reading in order to make arrangements for
licensing use.
On the back of the image, these words were written: "Harry Pitt, who has spent the whole of his 73 years
amongst sheep, is still able to hand shear at Mr. P. Stewart's
Tory's farm at Hemsworth near Blandford, Dorset, where all the
flock of pedigree H.D.S. sheep are hand sheared."
The H.D.S. stood for Hampshire Downs' sheep. There was also
a stamp on the back indicating the picture may have been placed in a newspaper
called the Farmers Weekly. There was also an
acknowledgement of the image appearing in The Countryside Remembered (1991),
page 76. There was a date stamp of June 14, 1946,
but it is not known if that was the date for when the picture
was taken, or some other date. Mr. Pitt was not named in Sadie
Ward's The Countryside Remembered. |
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Hubbard's Books
Bearded Collie
Old Welsh Grey |
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Clifford L. B. Hubbard's book Working Dogs
of the World was published in 1947. In the early pages he
talked about Robert Leighton and Edward C. Ash being "great
cynologists." He was not so flattering regarding Vero Shaw and
Dalziel. He felt their writings provided shed
little light on many of the breeds.
In that book, on page 2, he wrote:
"However, as far as Sheepdogs and Cattle
Dogs are concerned, many breeds of which exist to-day very litle
unchanged, we know that in Europe alone, there were many
distinct races upwards of 1,000 years ago. These were all highly
trained dogs, of vastly differing types and sizes, yet each the
most perfect instrument for the job of work concerned."
He wrote on page 21:
"The Show Collie is only in very rare cases used in working on
the pasture; as a breed the Collie is, of course, a traditional
shepherd dog, and it is well known that a few Bearded Collies
are able to work very well indeed...." On page 71, he stated:
"....(the Bearded Collie makes an expert cattle-worker as
well)." On page 154, he pointed out to the reader the similarities between a
typical old-fashioned working type of Beardie and the Old Welsh
Grey (using pictures for the comparison). The images appear
here strictly for educational purposes. |
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1948 |
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Clifford Hubbard's Dogs in Britain,
etc., (1948) included language which basically repeated his earlier words about the
Bearded Collie. On page 194 he put forth his conjecture that
the Bearded Collies were "probably even older than the smart
Rough-coated Collie, and its early history links with that of
the Old English Bob-tailed Sheepdog." |
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1948 |
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Clifford Hubbard wrote and published An
Introduction to the Literature of British Dogs, etc. (1949).
In that book, he gave his opinion on page 46, about Edward Ash's
1927 book. Hubbard stated:
"Of all the published literature on the dog in any
language, Ash's Dogs: Their History and Development remains
the supreme effort for original work and investigation. This great book is not the last word on dogs
(no book could possibly be), but certainly it will reign supreme
as a work of reference until well into the second half of this
century."
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1948 |
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Puxley |
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W. Lavallin Puxley authored Collies and
Sheepdogs, (1948). A small portion of text is reproduced
regarding how shepherds value the sheepdog. |
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1949 |
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Beardie-like Practicing Sheep
Walking |
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The Shepherd's Dogs: Their
Training for Mustering and Trial Work was published in 1949.
The author was C. W. G. Hartley. This book, published in New
Zealand as a second edition in 1951, included one picture of a Beardie-like dog being
trained to walk the backs of sheep. The picture
appears here strictly for educational purposes. It likely
appeared in the 1949 edition. |
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