30 September 2026 | Breed Recognition, History and Heritage
After more than ten years of work by the club. The ANKC (now Dogs Australia) accepted the Murray River Retriever as a Group 3 gundog at its meeting on 16 October 2021, and from 1 January 2022 the club’s own register became the breed’s way onto the national...
10 February 2026 | Breed Recognition, In the Media, Working and Hunting
Until 2024 it was illegal to use a Murray River Retriever to retrieve ducks in season in Victoria. The Game Management Authority took its list of permitted dogs from the ANKC, and without a pedigree the breed was not on it. In this article for the SSAA, MRRA member...
2 April 2022 | Breed Recognition, In the Media
An American look at Australia’s newly recognised gundog, written in 2022 as the first Murrays were exhibited at the Adelaide Plains Kennel and Obedience Club in South Australia. It covers the breed’s likely Irish Water Spaniel roots, the DNA evidence that...
12 October 2013 | Breed Recognition, History and Heritage, In the Media
In 2013 the club, then the Murray River Curly Coated Retriever Association, was campaigning for the breed to be recognised, so that Murrays would not have to be desexed under proposed laws on unrecognised dogs. At the time about 114 dogs were registered, against the...
