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Barcoo Dog


A Barcoo Dog is a rattle made of tin lids strung on a loop of baling wire,used for rounding up sheep and named after the Barcoo Shire in Western Queensland, where it originated: To make more noise than a Barcoo Dog, is to be rowdy or raucous. ie "geez, you make more noise than a Barcoo Dog".