Canine Supervision

Humans can’t be trusted to get things right. Every good project, worksite and swimming hole needs a dog to supervise. Sometimes a project required more than one good boy, sometimes much larger beasts waited politely for their doggy betters to give the go-ahead. Here are the good boys of Queensland in the 19th century.

This barn-raising required three dogs to make sure it was completed correctly.
This bullock team had stopped outside the Carpenters’ Arms, and wasn’t going anywhere until the little guy in the foreground said so.
This good boy is making sure that the children of Gympie don’t drown in floodwaters (1870)
Horse power, they say. Should be dog power.
The work of a good boy is never done. Here’s one, twenty-three years later, making sure the children of Ipswich were okay in the flood.
A Rabbiter and his pack, Darling Downs

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