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Day of Dogs 2017: Join The Weekly Times and celebrate

THE Weekly Times has celebrated #dayofdogs17 with the likes of Koolie Rueben, seen watching the sun go down at a Quambatook farm.

Paws for effect: This attentive trio gets ready for Day of Dogs. Picture: Zoe Phillips
Paws for effect: This attentive trio gets ready for Day of Dogs. Picture: Zoe Phillips

THE Weekly Times has celebrated — and documented — the third annual Day of Dogs. SCROLL DOWN

6pm
AS THE sun sets on another successful Day of Dogs, we’re about to make like our furry friends and hit the hay.

Humphrey, who was an RSPCA rescue dog.
Humphrey, who was an RSPCA rescue dog.


Thank you to everyone who sent in photos, tagged us in pictures or clicked along to the action today.

It’s not too late to catch up on everything that’s been happening — just scroll down.

You also might like to check out #dayofdogs17 on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

Sweet dreams. 🐶

Brent Parker sent in this sunset shot of his Koolie Rueben at his Quambatook farm.
Brent Parker sent in this sunset shot of his Koolie Rueben at his Quambatook farm.

5.34pm Pin-up dogs

IF YOU can’t get enough of pictures of dogs, you’re in luck!

The Weekly Times 2018 Dogs Calendar.
The Weekly Times 2018 Dogs Calendar.

The Weekly Times Dog Calendar is making its return for 2018, filled to the brim with cute and cuddly canines.

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The Weekly Times 2018 Dogs Calendar

4.42pm Dogs of Instagram

MEANWHILE, on Instagram, #dayofdogs17 has been getting a workout on Instagram, with more than 70 posts and counting.

We have seen photos and videos of dogs playing “markers up”, inspecting crops and getting up close and personal with barnyard animals, just to name a few. 🐶

3.12pm Jed

Jed in his younger days. Pictures: Zoe Phillips
Jed in his younger days. Pictures: Zoe Phillips

MANY of us learn our first lessons about life, love and, sadly, inevitably, death from our dogs.

But whether we’re 8, 18 or 80 years old, the inevitability of having to say goodbye one day doesn’t make that any easier.

“We had our beautiful kelpie, Jed, put down on the weekend,” Heather Thege writes.

“Such a beautiful loyal loving member of our family.”

Heather said Jed “was one of Zoe’s pin up boys when he was a pup,” referring to when The Weekly Times’ Zoe Phillips photographed Jed for our Dogs Calendar one year.

“I’m missing my shadow.”

Our condolences, Heather. 🐶

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1.24pm Ajax the Border Collie

Benloch via Lancefield

NICHOLAS Harvey sent in this picture of Ajax the Border Collie as a pup.

Ajax. Picture: Supplied
Ajax. Picture: Supplied

“ ‘I know this is where food comes from!’,” Nicholas captioned the image.

“He grew to be the biggest Border Collie I’ve ever had and his nickname became ‘Thumper’ because if he shook hands with you it felt like being thumped!”

And, says Nicholas, “Here’s “Loosley” the goat — so called because it took a long while to figure out what gender it was — with Charlie (Cassius) carrying out a ‘taste test’ with his son Ajax (Thumper) and the matriarch of the family Nike.” 🐶

Ajax, Loosley the goat, Nike and Charlie. Picture: Supplied
Ajax, Loosley the goat, Nike and Charlie. Picture: Supplied

11.37am Rowdy

Bruce Rock, WA

ROWDY, as The Weekly Times grains reporter EMMA FIELD explains, had one of his back legs surgically removed after getting it caught on a fence while doing sheep work earlier this year.

Emma Field with her brother Chris.
Emma Field with her brother Chris.

“My brother, Chris, who works on a farm near Bruce Rock in WA’s central wheatbelt, and his partner Chloe, decided to get the costly surgery done, which meant using money they set aside for their honeymoon. Their wedding was in March this year,” Emma says.

“Their friends in Bruce Rock and Narembeen found out about the honeymoon money being used on vet fees for Rowdy after his accident, and they all pitched in to pay for a post-wedding holiday. This was announced at the wedding reception to the surprise of the couple. ​​

“Rowdy, recovered well, and just seven weeks after the surgery is pictured back on the job, bringing in a mob of sheep on the farm. Proving his new disability is no barrier to a working dog.” 🐶

Rowdy back at work. Pictures: Chris Field
Rowdy back at work. Pictures: Chris Field
Disability is no obstacle for Rowdy.
Disability is no obstacle for Rowdy.

10.19am Molly the Kelpie

Heatherleigh, Bochara, Victoria

JANE Horne sent in this picture of Molly the Kelpie, who, despite looking the part, is not actually a working dog, but the family’s pet, for our Back Paddock page recently.

“Now if I just sit here quietly no one will notice me, right? And then I can take the rest of the afternoon off”, was the caption it appeared with in yesterday’s paper. 🐶

Picture: Jane Horne
Picture: Jane Horne

READ MORE: MOLLY THE KELPIE KEEPS WARM IN PEN OF SHEEP

8.52am Odie the Kelpie Border Collie Cross

Red Hill, Victoria

OUR first Day of Dogs, in 2015, was all about words and pictures, but the second time around we added video to the mix. And we’re so glad we did.

This #dayofdogs17 video is of Odie, a Kelpie Border Collie Cross who owner and trainer Suzanne Holmes says was rescued from a small backyard.

Odie, Suzanne says, has found a new home at Red Hill Cherry Farm.

His favourite hobbies, Suzanne says, are tractors and cherry pickers!

While you’re here, check out the dozens of dogs who already feature in our #dayofdogs17 gallery. 🐶

7.39am Pip the Jack Russell and Mouse the Jack Russell Cross

Wandin North, Victoria

FEMKE Licciardi would like to introduce you to her farm dogs.

“Pip is in the first pic. She’s a 13-year-old Jack Russell. And Mouse is a four-year-old Jack Russell cross.

“They hang out with us all day on our flower farm in Wandin North in Victoria.”

Pip.
Pip.
Mouse.
Mouse.

Here are Mouse and Pip in the back of the ute just moments ago, ready to head out to work for the day.

Pictures: Femke Licciardi
Pictures: Femke Licciardi

We’d love to see your pics and videos of your dogs at work and at play. Scroll to the top of the article for how to get them to us. 🐶

6.58am

Southbank, Victoria

GOOD morning and a very warm welcome on behalf of The Weekly Times to all those joining us for the first time today, on #dayofdogs17!

I’m Lachlan Hastings, online editor of The Weekly Times, and I’m very pleased to have your company.

Regular readers will be familiar with our Question of the Week, which canvasses opinion on the biggest pressing issue in regional Australia.

Today’s special #dayofdogs17 Question of the Day is inspired by The Fauves, who sing Dogs are the Best People.

Vote now! 🐶

5.45am Zelda

Sweden

ONE of the great things about #dayofdogs17 is that it brings together, for the third consecutive year, dog people from all over the world.

We’re first and foremost about rural Australia, and as our masthead proudly proclaims, we have been “The voice of the country since 1869”.

But no matter whether you’re in Bunyip, Victoria, or Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, we want to hear from you.

Zelda (below) is 15,000km from The Weekly Times’ newsroom. 🐶

Noon, October 23

Southbank Victoria

NEED #dayofdogs17 inspo? Here’s some in the form of a picture taken by acclaimed The Weekly Times photographer Zoe Phillips while she was scouting for canine subjects to appear in our forthcoming 2018 Dogs Calendar.

Picture: Zoe Phillips
Picture: Zoe Phillips

There are more of Zoe’s pictures towards the end of our #dayofdogs17 picture gallery.

PICTURE GALLERY: CELEBRATE DAY OF DOGS 2017

And here’s a video that we’d like everyone to try and beat. 🐶

DAY OF DOGS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017

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