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Site-level location · 32.3368° S, 117.8207° E
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The story
The statue marks a cemetery for dogs.
Corrigin Dog Cemetery began in the 1970s when a local buried a dog beside the road, and it grew from there. It now holds hundreds of graves, many with headstones, names, dates and inscriptions written by the families who put them there. The Shire of Corrigin continues to manage and promote it in 2026 as a much-loved tourism attraction, and its official visitor material records that a large dog statue marks the site.
That makes this the one entry in this catalogue attached to a burial ground, and it is a genuinely affecting one. Australians do not generally build public places to grieve animals, and a paddock cemetery in the Western Australian wheatbelt filled with headstones for farm dogs is more moving than the description suggests. Working dogs in this country are not pets in the ordinary sense; a good one is a colleague, and the district's whole agricultural history has been done with them.
Corrigin also holds a separate record for a dog event – the town has repeatedly assembled large numbers of utes with dogs in the back, a wheatbelt fundraising tradition that attracts hundreds of vehicles.
The statue itself is doing a signpost's job. A roadside cemetery with no marker would be missed entirely, and the object exists so travellers know to stop.
Corrigin is a small wheatbelt town south-east of Perth, in country that empties out steadily as farms consolidate.
The statue's maker, dimensions and date are not recorded.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
The Shire of Corrigin continues to manage and promote the Dog Cemetery in 2026 as a much-loved tourism attraction. The official visitor site says a large dog statue marks the cemetery and notes a large parking area.
ACCESS
The cemetery is on private land under Shire management. Use the designated visitor parking and respect cemetery rules; the stored site point represents the cemetery rather than an exact sculpture pin.
