title: Red Dog. Louis de Bernires
author: Louis De Berni'res
description: In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.' Louis de Bernieres.
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  # Louis de Berniиres
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Red Dog
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Louis de Berniиres 2001
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
  
  
  AUTHOR'S NOTE 1
  
  
  PART ONE 1
  
  
  FROM TALLY HO TO RED DOG 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE STINKER 1
  
  
  RED DOG GOES TO DAMPIER 4
  
  
  TALLY HO AT THE BARBECUE 5
  
  
  RED DOG MEETS JOHN 5
  
  
  RED DOG AND NANCY GREY 7
  
  
  NANCY, RED DOG AND JOHN 8
  
  
  RED DOG AND THE POSH POOCHES 9
  
  
  RED DOG'S EXPENSIVE INJURY 11
  
  
  RED DOG AND THE WOMAN FROM PERTH 14
  
  
  HAS ANYONE SEEN JOHN? 15
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PART TWO 17
  
  
  THE DOG OF THE NORTH-WEST 17
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LOOKING FOR JOHN 17
  
  
  RED DOG AND RED CAT 19
  
  
  RED DOG, DON AND THE RANGER 20
  
  
  RED DOG AND THE DREADED CRIBBAGES 23
  
  
  THE LAST JOURNEY 26
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GLOSSARY OF AUSTRALIANISMS 29
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## AUTHOR'S NOTE
  
  
  
  
  
  The real Red Dog was born in 1971, and died on November 20th, 1979. The
  stories I have told here are all based upon what really happened to him, but I
  have invented all of the characte