21 rescue Australian Cattle Dogs are available for adoption across Australia right now, listed by Animal Welfare League NSW, Animals in Need Brisbane, Dogs' Refuge Home, Happy Paws Haven, K9 Dog Rescue, Monika's Doggie Rescue, RSPCA NSW, RSPCA Queensland, RSPCA Victoria, The Lost Dogs' Home. Every listing links straight to the rescue.
8 months • Australian Cattle Dog
5 years 9 months • Heeler x Terrier
About 7 years old • Cattle Dog X Siberian Husky
About 2 years old • Cattle Dog X
3 years • Australian Cattle Dog Mix
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The Australian Cattle Dog is a medium-sized dog with high energy needs. Those two things — the space it needs and the exercise it expects — matter more day to day than the breed label itself, especially with rescue dogs, where many are crosses.
Shelter breed labels in Australia are usually a visual guess rather than a DNA result, so a dog listed as an Australian Cattle Dog may well be a cross. That is worth knowing before you rule a listing in or out: temperament and the individual dog's history tell you far more than the name on the card.
Right now Australian Cattle Dogs in Australia are listed by Animal Welfare League NSW, Animals in Need Brisbane, Dogs' Refuge Home, Happy Paws Haven, K9 Dog Rescue, Monika's Doggie Rescue, RSPCA NSW, RSPCA Queensland, RSPCA Victoria, The Lost Dogs' Home. Applications, home checks and adoption decisions are handled by the rescue directly — LocalPetFinder brings the listings together so you do not have to check each rescue separately, and does not take a fee.
As of September 2026, 21 Australian Cattle Dogs are available for adoption in Australia across 10 rescues on LocalPetFinder. Listings are refreshed regularly as dogs are adopted and new ones arrive — browse the current Australian Cattle Dogs above and apply directly through the rescue. Currently listed by Animal Welfare League NSW, Animals in Need Brisbane, The Lost Dogs' Home, Monika's Doggie Rescue, RSPCA NSW, Dogs' Refuge Home, K9 Dog Rescue, RSPCA Victoria, Happy Paws Haven, RSPCA Queensland.
LocalPetFinder lists Australian Cattle Dogs available for adoption from rescues right across Australia, in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland, and Victoria. Right now the rescues listing Australian Cattle Dogs are Animal Welfare League NSW, Animals in Need Brisbane, Dogs' Refuge Home, Happy Paws Haven, K9 Dog Rescue, Monika's Doggie Rescue, RSPCA NSW, RSPCA Queensland, RSPCA Victoria, The Lost Dogs' Home. Every listing links straight to the rescue that has the dog, and the application is handled by them, not by us.
Not for sale, for adoption, which is usually the better deal. Every Australian Cattle Dog here comes from an Australian rescue rather than a breeder or a classified seller, and the adoption fee already covers desexing, vaccination and microchipping. That fee is typically a few hundred dollars, against often several thousand from a breeder with none of the vet work done. If you searched "australian cattle dog for sale", adopting gets you a vetted dog for a fraction of the price.
