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Speaker 1: Darw And rescue dog has starred in the Top Dog

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Speaker 1: Film Festival. Now Zach joins me in the studio right

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Speaker 1: now with his trainer, Bronwyn Mullins. Now they feature in

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Speaker 1: Dogs to the Rescue. It's a thirty minute documentary that

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Speaker 1: demonstrates the impressive use of dogs using their genetic behaviors

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Speaker 1: to make a difference in the community by saving lives.

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Speaker 2: Now, good morning to you, broad.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 1: You're really good, so lovely to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: And of course we've got Zach in the studio as well.

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Speaker 2: He's very well behaved.

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Speaker 1: He's just walking around, having a bit of a smell

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Speaker 1: around the place.

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Speaker 2: Loves the patch and he's saying, what's going on now?

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Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about the work that you

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Speaker 1: guys do.

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Speaker 3: Firstly, So we're a volunteer canine team for oswe TASWORS,

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Speaker 3: which is the Australian Disaster Response Team. So we're trained

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Speaker 3: to find Zach's trained to find live people that are

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Speaker 3: missing in collapsed buildings and because by just structural collapse

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Speaker 3: or earthquakes and.

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Speaker 2: Things like that. Wow.

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Speaker 3: And we also do land search as well.

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Speaker 1: And so you guys are obviously based in the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory now, but you've worked in other locations around Australia

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Speaker 1: as well, haven't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so predominantly I'm part of the team that's based

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Speaker 3: in Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: I was transferred to Darwin with the RAF, so we

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Speaker 3: ended up here and I wanted to continue his training,

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Speaker 3: and I also noticed that there was a severe lack

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Speaker 3: of this capability in the territory as well.

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Speaker 1: So tell us about have there been different events or

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Speaker 1: incidents that Zach has You know that Zach's obviously special

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Speaker 1: training has been required.

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Speaker 3: For thankfully not yet. It's always you train to prepare

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Speaker 3: and thankfully we haven't had that situation. I have gone

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Speaker 3: out in a volunteer capacity for the missing eighteen year

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Speaker 3: old in Humpty sorry earlier in the year. Unfortunately we

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Speaker 3: weren't able to assist greatly in that we were able

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Speaker 3: to cliss Mary's and stuff. Yeah, the family out in

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Speaker 3: that sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, Zach is incredibly friendly.

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Speaker 1: He's just over here before with me getting a pat

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Speaker 1: What type of dog is Zach?

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Speaker 3: So here is a bigle cross kelpie.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's a cool cross.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so he has the hunt drive which is

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Speaker 3: what we look for in protection and the workability of

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Speaker 3: the kelpie and that endurance of the kelpy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right.

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Speaker 1: How often does Zach have to go out exercising? Is

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Speaker 1: he pretty lively?

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Speaker 3: Every day?

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Speaker 2: Every day?

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Speaker 3: And am I glutton for punishment because I have three

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Speaker 3: of them?

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Speaker 2: Good on you? That is incredible.

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Speaker 1: I'm always really fascinated by, you know, working dogs or

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Speaker 1: dogs that are trained to do incredible things. And I

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Speaker 1: know at different times I've had the Northern Territory Police

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Speaker 1: in with their dogs, and what I'm really fascinated by

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Speaker 1: with them is that they can sort of go from

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Speaker 1: interacting with the indeed a really friendly in a really

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Speaker 1: sort of friendly way, to them when they need to

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Speaker 1: switch on, they switch on.

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Speaker 2: Is that a similar situation for Zach?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep. If once I've cued him to search, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter what comes across in front of him, you know,

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Speaker 3: whether it's a cat or wallaby or anything like that,

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Speaker 3: he literally just ignores it and keeps working.

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Speaker 2: His drive for searching his extremely high yep.

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Speaker 3: And that's the one job that he loves.

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Speaker 2: A dog's the best to keep him busy.

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Speaker 3: Also, we have branched into wire security detection. Work as well,

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Speaker 3: so well, do some help with the government for that

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Speaker 3: out it for different pests and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And how wonderful Now now Zach is about to become

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Speaker 1: well both of you, but but Zach is about to

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Speaker 1: become a film star.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be in a in a top dog film. Yep,

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Speaker 2: Zach's the star. I'm just the hands are on the back.

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Speaker 2: He does all the work. I say.

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Speaker 3: I was extremely proud to be able to take part

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Speaker 3: in it when I was approached because it also highlights

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Speaker 3: there's loads of volunteer teams all around Australia in different

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Speaker 3: states that commit they're basically their whole lifestyle to training

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Speaker 3: new side dogs. So hopefully this sheds a bit of

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Speaker 3: light and lets people know that behind the scenes there

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Speaker 3: are a lot of people giving up their time to

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Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, which is a wonderful thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that that essentially people are going to

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Speaker 1: be able to see the screening of this film. I

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Speaker 1: think it's Wednesday, the twenty fourth of August, isn't ash.

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Speaker 3: That's correct the deck Chest Cinema.

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Speaker 2: Is it going to be the first time you've seen

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Speaker 2: it in full?

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Speaker 3: It will be it will be. My parents saw it

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Speaker 3: last night in Townsville. Yeah, and they said it was

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Speaker 3: it was really good. So, I mean they can be

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Speaker 3: a bit by so no, but they said the whole

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Speaker 3: crowd was extremely happy with it.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we want.

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Speaker 3: We just want to, you know, have people go away

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Speaker 3: from the the film festival feeling really good and loafhearted

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Speaker 3: about it all.

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Speaker 1: So and knowing, like having a better understanding as well.

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Speaker 1: I reckon of the capabilities of our like our wonderful dogs.

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Speaker 2: That's and that's right.

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Speaker 3: And you know, there's no I don't think there's any

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Speaker 3: limits as to what we can teach them. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: as long as they love to do it, that's that's

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Speaker 2: They are the best, aren't they. How Like do you

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Speaker 2: ever give him rewards?

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Speaker 1: I know you said you've got three dogs, but you know,

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Speaker 1: does he get anything special?

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Speaker 3: I try not to show too much favoritism, but he

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Speaker 3: is my main boy. If we are if we've done

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Speaker 3: a hard search or a hard training session. His favorite

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Speaker 3: is Maci's ice crenk.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't get it too often, but when he does, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure he enjoys it. Now, how Like, how many hours

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Speaker 1: of training has gone into you know, to getting Zach

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Speaker 1: to the point where he is able to do what

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Speaker 3: So on average we go, like official scheduled training about

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Speaker 3: ten to twelve hours a week. Yeah, that doesn't include

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Speaker 3: what we do at home, so probably twenty to twenty

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Speaker 3: five hours a week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, goodness mate.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I think it's incredible the way that

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got these wonderful dogs that are part

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Speaker 1: it sounds as though this film is going to be

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Speaker 1: a cracker. So it is going to be screened at

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Speaker 1: the deck Chair Cinema on Wednesday, the twenty fourth of August.

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Speaker 1: If you're an animal lover, if you're fascinated by working dogs,

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's a wonderful one to go and.

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Speaker 3: Catch Zach and myself will be there along with my

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Speaker 3: youngest ones. So Zach's going to be signing autographs so

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Speaker 2: Well are you there?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, he'll love all the attention of pats and cuddles.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bronwyin Mullins, thank you so very much for coming

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Speaker 1: into the studio and letting us meet Zach as well

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Speaker 1: and telling us a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit more about it, No worry, he's glad to come.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much,