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...
6 February 2017 | History and Heritage, In the Media
A 2017 American profile of the breed, written five years before the ANKC recognised it, when it was still called the Murray River Curly-Coated Retriever. It describes a regional working dog of the Murray River that the major kennel clubs did not yet recognise, reports...
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...
