From yesterday morning, 12 working dogs throughout Australia, including Boorowa dog “Fly”, were fitted with GPS collars as part of the third annual Cobber Challenge, in the search for Australia’s toughest work dog.

This national competition sees the dogs’ movements tracked every day for three weeks, with speed, duration and distance results uploaded to the cobberchallenge.com.au website each evening.

Points are earned based on daily activity until Sunday, September 2 to determine the winner of the coveted Cobber Challenge trophy.

“We can’t wait to see the results begin to roll in this evening, as our 12 competitors come in from a day of hard work,” says Cobber Brand Manager Marika O’Leary.

Fly’s owner Oliver Adlington owns a property outside of Boorowa and says he entered Fly in this year’s competition because of her work ethic. 

“Fly has never failed me yet - that's why she's my main dog,” Oliver said. 

“Her working strength is certainly her desire to please me; she'll do anything I ask of her and keep doing so all day, and then she'll be just as keen to do it again the next day.”

He said she stands a fair chance to take out the competition. 

“She does a fair few kilometres so let’s see how she goes compared to everyone else,” Oliver said. 

The competition will see each dog given a GPS collar that tracks their distance, working duration and speed during a three-week period in August. 

A total of 12 dogs have been selected for this year’s competition, two from each state.