A Dunolly dogs' tale
How does a brown dog from the backstreets of Dunolly end up capturing the hearts of a nation? “It’s a long story,” says Len Hobday.We’ve travelled north out of Bendigo to the tiny goldfields town to find the birthplace of the dog on everybody’s lips: Red Dog.
The heartfelt quirky Aussie film Red Dog premiered in Melbourne last week.
ABC reviewers Margaret and David have given it the four-plus thumbs up and its canine star has been splashed across the nation’s broadsheets.
It’s a far cry from Koko’s (for that is Red Dog’s name) former life with Len and Carol Hobday. Not that their dog was a complete stranger to a bit of fuss and attention.
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The chocolate-brown kelpie was already an Australian champion in the show ring when animal trainer Luke Hura found him.
The Hobdays were at a dog show in 2009 when they were approached by Luke, on the prowl for the perfect pooch to star in a new Aussie film.
“We said yes, we thought we had a dog that would be suitable,” Len says.
“He was a pretty small sort of dog but he had a beautiful temperament, he was very outgoing. We said we thought he’d be a good dog for the film.”
“He was always a darling dog,” Carol adds. “He used to go down the road to the bakery with me and he’d just sit out the front and wait.
“I said to Luke, ‘I’ve got one at home that’s just like a sponge. He wants to learn everything’.”
Luke came to Dunolly, met Koko and said that on the surface, he seemed ideal.
Red Dog director Kriv Stenders then travelled down from Sydney to see for himself, take some shots and determine Koko’s screen presence.
“Kriv just looked at him and said, ‘if he’ll learn, he’s just what we want. I think we’ve found our dog’.
Luke had already trialed several kelpies before he found Koko.
There was something about the dog’s facial expressions that was remarkable. Carol says she always knew Koko was special.
He was one of a litter of five pups.
He was the one they always intended on keeping. They named the puppy Koko, after an earlier dog with a weak ticker.
“We lost one to a heart murmur and his name was Koko,” Carol says.
“I loved him to shreds and when this one was born I said, this one’s going to be my Koko.”
Carol says she’s had other breeds of dog over the years, but there’s just something about a kelpie.
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