Diggers Herding & K9 Education

02/12/2025

Beautiful farm photos showcased in National Ag Day competition.

01/12/2025

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24/11/2025

“We need a balanced view of stress. Acute, manageable challenges—those that elicit adaptive stress responses—support attentional sharpening, facilitate memory consolidation, strengthen social bonds, and promote effective learning. These benefits are highly context-dependent: stress can enhance cognition and affiliation when moderate and predictable, but excessive or prolonged stress can overwhelm these systems, impairing memory, social interactions, and overall well-being.”

- Roger Abrantes

Abstract Stress is often portrayed as harmful, yet moderate, acute stress can enhance learning, memory retention, and social bonding. Recent epigenetic research reveals that stress hormones modulat…

20/11/2025

Scientists say that autism isn't uniquely human, as new evidence shows dogs can be on the spectrum.

09/11/2025

08/11/2025

—A Sniffer Dog is a Happy Dog Scent detection has fascinated me since my early days as a student of biology, and I was already training detection animals at the beginning of the 1980s. Over the yea…

31/08/2025

Once upon a time, dogs were considered backyard companions, but new research shows they've well and truly moved into the bedroom.

25/08/2025

Australia could now be riding on the sheepdogs' back, with new calculations showing they deliver a $3 billion benefit to the economy. | Subscribe and 🔔: htt...

24/08/2025

A sheepdog trial champion says the skills needed to train the herding dogs are in danger of being lost.
Farmers have worked with sheepdogs for thousands of years, but some was anxious about the future.

Philip Walton, who is competing in Penrith this weekend, is worried about the future of herding.

24/08/2025

A study estimates the nation's 270,000 working livestock dogs contributed to the economy at an amount similar to Australia's beef exports to the US in 2023-24.

06/07/2025

Epic 3,500km trek, 11,000 sheep, and the young drover history forgot

In 1882, drover Wallace Caldwell led the longest sheep drive in Australian history, but his story was almost lost to time.

21/06/2025