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Real-life story of ACD is set to become a Hollywood hit!
- An amazing real-life story of how a pet dog swam to a desert island and survived there alone for four months is to become a Hollywood animated movie.
  
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ACD saves family children from a poisonous brown snake!
- THE bravery of a red cattle dog has been credited with saving the lives of two Queensland children in Ipswich from the bite of a highly venomous eastern brown snake.
  
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ACDRA foster dog makes a news-worthy recovery!
- With perked ears and eager eyes, Miss Mickey, a 20-pound Australian Cattle Dog, can run, jump and even catch a ball. But it wasn't always that way.
  
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Missing ACD home after seven-month excursion!
- Carol Gruwell’s boarding kennel on Farmingdale Road west of Springfield is called Pup’s Paradise. “It wasn’t that day,” she says.
  
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ACD who washed overboard and was believed drowned is found!
- A pet dog which was washed overboard and believed drowned has been found four months later - as a castaway on a remote Australian island.
  
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Police Credit Dog With Saving Lost Girl's Life
- A 3-year-old who went missing from her Arizona home Thursday was found alive Friday morning, after spending a night outside in near-freezing temperatures huddled next to her dog, Blue.
  
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ACD stays with owner who passed away in woods
- The man dies in the wilderness and his faithful companion stays until rescuers find them nearly two weeks later.
  
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The longest living dog on record was an ACD!
- The title of the oldest dog that ever lived sits with Bluey, an Australian Cattle Dog who herded cattle and sheep in his native land for nearly 20 years before retiring.
  
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Gator-Fighting ACD is 2001 "Dog Hero of the Year"
- The award went to "Blue", an Australian Blue Heeler who saved Ruth Gay, 85, from an alligator attack behind her house.
  
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Gator-Fighting ACD is 2001 "Dog Hero of the Year"
- This award goes to "Blue", an Australian Cattle Dog who saved Ruth Gay, 85, from an alligator attack behind her home.
  
  Read the story here.
Mad Max's dog in the Road Warrior was a Blue Heeler.

The ACD is referred to simply as."Dog." Hondo is the real life name of the ACD who played "Dog" so convincingly! He lived his life after the movie with 1 of the stunt men, Gerry Gauslaa!
- A clip from the Road Warrior featuring "Dog".

Mailing Address: ACDRA, PO Box 7204, Garden City, NY 11503-5729

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