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Definition of eye dog in English: eye dognoun NZ A dog that can control sheep using its gaze. your father ever train up a good eye dog? Example sentencesExamples - Mr. Ward's dog had been trained to be what musterers call an eye dog.
- On the farm I had an eye dog.
- The farmer and his eye dog watch closely, taciturn.
- There was only the farmers eye dog there as well as my three.
- The farmer has a system of whistles and commands that he deftly uses to get the sheep to move (sometimes barely audible, but the eye dog understands).
- Nobody would have been silly enough to try and buy his eye dogs.
- Sothey take a bit of stopping – so an eye dog is not really much chop.
- The eye dog doesn't bark.
- The dog no longer jumps and runs over the heather at high speed, it changes its technique and becomes an eye dog.
- The final dog was a very strong eye dog, sensible and fast, and extremely capable for lambing, when silence is golden.
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