Fishing a dog’s life
PA Auckland Ziggy has just been registered as a working dog with the Mangonui County Council by his owners, Margaret and Vic Brannen. He is not the type to chase sheep or cattle, though — he catches fish for his living. Ziggy reveals just one clue when he is preparing for action. He swivels his head from side to side ensuring that his eyes miss no
part of the dropping tide. When he finds what he is looking for everything happens in a flash. His ears shoot up, his tail curls over his back, and he rockets into the water like lightning. He seizes the hapless fish by the head and then sprints back to the house where he drops it at Mrs Brannen’s feet. Ziggy’s victims are exclusively John Dory which sell in shops for
about $l3 a kilogram. Mr and Mrs Brannen never dreamed when they moved several years ago from Henderson to Hihi Peninsula in Mangonui County that the fishing up north would be so doggone easy. Ziggy is a deerhound crossed with unknown breeds. “He was a little puppy with blue eyes who was busily chasing a little boy all over the place,” she recalled.
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