US EditionA Ripper Race to Find Australia's Hardest-Working Dog
- The Cobber Challenge, an annual three-week competition in Australia, showcases the nation’s hardest-working farm dogs using GPS tracking and video submissions.
- The contest arose to recognize working dogs’ vital roles amid agriculture labor shortages and tracks their daily efforts over three weeks with GPS collars.
- Last year’s winner, Bear, a Queensland kelpie, covered 570 km averaging 41 km daily, while NSW farmer Daniel Pumpa’s dog Ripper placed fourth after working 30 hours and 322 km.
- Marketing manager Kellie Savage expressed deep appreciation for the positive journey they've experienced and highlighted the valuable acknowledgment Ripper and Turbo have earned for their diligent and often unrecognized efforts every single day.
- With nominations open until June 22, the challenge intends to provide farmers valuable data on dog performance and celebrates the dogs’ essential contribution to Australia’s billion-dollar agriculture industry.
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A decade of dogged determination: Nominations open for the 2025 Cobber Challenge I Australian Rural & Regional News
Screenshot Cobber Challenge 2025 Cobber Dog Food, Media Release, 27 May 2025 Cobber is calling on Australia’s toughest, stock-chasing, hard-running working dogs to battle it out for the title of the hardest working dog, with nominations now open for the 2025 Cobber Challenge, back for its milestone tenth edition. The Cobber Challenge is an annual showdown where the country’s best working dogs go paw-to-paw in a tribute to the unsung heroes of ou…
A ripper race to find Australia’s hardest-working dog
Ripper the tan-and-black kelpie is the very model of man’s best friend. The two-year-old is “a freak” when it comes to working sheep, an agile and clever pup who gets the herd moving like a dog beyond his years, owner Daniel Pumpa said. “I’d be absolutely stuffed without him,” Mr Pumpa told AAP. The bond between the farmer and his four-legged offsider runs much deeper than their work on a property near Yeoval in central western NSW. Ripper is th…
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