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580:, thank you for finally finding some usable RS, now I think we have the basis for an article. I cannot read any of the second link but the first clearly articulates a broad definition of the term, whilst it specifies this interpretation of the term to be American, in time this may be expanded upon. Here in Australia the term is very much confined to sheep and cattle dogs (
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and two about drug detection dogs. Of the remaining three, one opens it to "any purebred dogs that are 16 inches at the withers", one makes mention of explosive detection dogs, guide dogs and military working dogs without further expansion and the last is a study about a population of military
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