A.C.D.Society Guidelines for Judges As the Australian Cattle Dog now has C.C. status, the committee would like to take the opportunity to emphasise the importance we believe should be placed on appropriate temperament in the breed. The ACD standard states the ACD should be suspicious of strangers; however, this should not manifest itself as overt aggression or any degree of nervousness. Any dog unable to display steady temperament without physical assistance or restraint from the handler should be considered untypical and detrimental to the breed and not awarded top honours. It is the committees' belief that the first C.C. judges in our breed will very much set the direction which will in turn influence the breed for many years to come and thus should place as much importance on temperament as the committee does. The Committee of the Australian Cattle Dog Society of Great Britain.

"We may have a new Cattle Dogs in Action category for you to add soon! Our ACD Cookie won the 'Dancing Virgins' at Paws in the Park in Kent at the end of last month. This is a sort of pre-starters HTM/Freestyle competition for those who've never entered a HTM comp before, but for us it was extra special as Cookie was the youngest, at only 13 months (you need to be 12 months to start competing), and she's completely deaf, and has some behavioural issues with other dogs. She wowed the judges with a performance to Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus with my OH Kevin, and will be entering her first real competition at the end of November. She'll be one of the youngest new dogs on the circuit, other than those owned by estabilished HTM people, and to our trainers knowledge, the only deaf one, apart from one who went deaf in later life, and we think, the only ACD - though if there are any more out there, we'd love to hear from them!! We'll let you know how we get on!"
 

Cattledogs are generally known to be "wary of strangers" but this is an illustration of what well socialized cattledogs will put up with from their owners!