This is not a Pit Bull. This is an Australian Cattle Dog.During the early colonization of Australia, the population was mainly confined to what is now the Sydney metropolitan area-the landholdings were relatively small and the distances involved in taking stock to market were not very far. The stock that was kept on these properties were used to seeing men and dogs around them, and were rather quiet and controllable. Working dogs that were brought out from other countries by the early settlers, are believed to have worked these quiet cattle easily.

The settlers began spreading eventually. In 1813, vast grazing lands were opened up to the West. Landholdings were often hundreds, even thousands of square miles, and most were unfenced. The cattle that was loose on these properties became wild and uncontrollable.

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