Meet Bear, Australia's hardest-working farm dog

Queensland kelpie Bear wins the title of Australia's hardest-working farm dog.

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00:00Well, we couldn't win Origin this year, so I'm happy we got one up in the cobbler challenge,

00:04but, nah, it's great, yep, I love to fly the flag for Queensland, and bear as well.

00:09So I went down to get a little pup, I get some dogs from over the border in New South

00:14Wales, and I went down and I had this little pup, and he was there, he was probably three

00:20months old, on a chain, tied to a kennel, and the whole time I was there he was just

00:25watching me the whole time, every move I took, and at the end of the morning when I was finished

00:32there I said to the owner, I said, what's the story with the big smokey pup, and he

00:36said, oh, it's at the end of the previous litter and no one, he hadn't been taken yet,

00:40and I said, well, I'll take him for sure, and yeah, the rest is history as they say.

00:44They've got to be up at daylight and want to go to work, and he loves that, and then

00:48yeah, then he's equally as happy with the kids as well if they're mucking around him,

00:53so he's just, yeah, loves to work, and then, yeah, no, he's a great, fantastic dog.

00:59Well, I can't take him to the pub, so he may be getting an extra dipper of bickies tonight,

01:03but for him he'd just love to go to work tomorrow, that's probably, he wouldn't want a day off

01:09at all, but I'll give him an extra pat and a few more copper bickies tonight, and that'll

01:13be about it I think.