Maggie and Archie Pogue with Bonnie Rainbow on their Ardmona farm.
Busted! Bonnie Rainbow enjoys a corn cob or two.
Bonnie Rainbow is a nonconformist.
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According to veterinary advice, dogs shouldn’t eat corn.
However, not a day goes by on the Pogue family’s Ardmona corn farm where she isn’t spotted gnawing on a corn cob.
Leanne and Fraser Pogue and their children, Archie and Maggie, picked up their family dog in 2016 and she’s been dancing to the beat of her own drum ever since.
Bonnie Rainbow would be up there in the rare dog’s name department, but that’s what you get when you let a four-year-old have naming rights.
“When our daughter was little she was hell-bent on getting a dog called Rainbow,” Leanne said.
“We compromised and made Bonnie her first name in honour of our awesome previous dog Clyde.”
This whippet, who’s 42 in dog years, chases kangaroos and hares through boundary fences, wears the pads off her feet in the process and specifically only shakes with her left hand.
If this hound had a personal anthem, it might well be My Way.
When Bonnie Rainbow isn’t keeping the intruding kangaroos at bay she is sleeping inside, sleeping in the sun or venturing across to Grandma Pogue’s in search of food.
This gives her a chance to charge her batteries so she’s ready for some ‘zoomies’ and an evening walk around the family’s cropping property.
“Our daughter taught her to sit and stay, but it was her left-handed grandma who taught her to shake with her left hand,” Leanne said.
The Pogues, who recently began selling popcorn cobs direct from their farm under the brand Good Dirt Foods, think Bonnie Rainbow is their number one customer and they love her, quirks and all.
“With the amount of corn we have on our farm, there’s no stopping her,” Leanne said.
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