The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Club of New South Wales undertakes to encourage, guide and advance the interests of purebred Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dogs and their owners and breeders, and to encourage the improvement of type and quality of the breed.

The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog has a unique place in Australia's agricultural heritage. Bred during the 19th Century as a drover's dog, traits of existing breeds such as the dingo and the Smithfield were selected and combined to produce a worker that could move untamed cattle across vast distances and rugged terrain.

Excerpt from A Dog Called Blue, reproduced with permission from the author, Noreen Clark.

The Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog and the Australian Cattle Dog share the same early ancestry. Both breeds were developed from the Halls Heeler and it is thought that Thomas Hall's imported Drovers Dogs carried the gene for taillessness if, indeed, they were not stumpy-tailed themselves. The later development of the Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog, however, diverged from that of the Australian Cattle Dog.