Jennifer & Morrie Oxley

Jennifer is Vice President and Morrie is a committee member and both constitute the Events sub- committee. Both are inaugural committee members. Every meeting Jennifer organizes and supplies the catering needs of the club which are always greatly appreciated. Morrie arranges for our every need at the meeting grounds and they both liaise with the grounds committee whom they have built a good relationship with.

They bring a wealth of experience to the committee, they have farmed their whole married life and Morrie has farmed in excess of 70 years.

They have run a mixed farm of 1200 to 1500 sheep, cattle and crop requiring good reliable working dogs as an essential part of farming life.  Morrie also spent 40 plus years driving livestock transport trucks. They have always had above average working dogs, usually kelpies until the first koolie arrived in 1940, by accident.  Koolies turned out to be brilliant and they have been koolie fans ever since.  Some they bred themselves, others were bought.  In later years some stud breeders emerged with brilliant dogs.

They don't use portable yards on the farm for sheep, wherever the sheep are their dogs are the yards.  When working their dogs bark like fury and don't bite the sheep so there is no need for muzzles.

One of Morrie's favourite koolies, Bing, knew the name of each horse, when Morrie worked with Clydesdales in the 50's he would tell Bing the horse he required to harness next and he would go out and bring that horse in from the paddock.

Another famous dog of Morrie's was Weed, who at the age of 6 months was loading and unloading stock from semi-trailers on her own.  At the age of 9 months was keeping sheep up to 3 shearers at a time on her own. Although not a large dog if sheep got away while trying to treat them in the yards she would go after them, grab them by the top knot, turn them upside and hold them until Morrie got to them. Weed was bred by our club Patron,  Mr. Frank Kelm.