Aussie dog gets a driving licence!

Four-legged fundraiser Bundy has a top speed of 283 km/h and a love of sausages.

This motorcycle-riding canine – who has helped raise millions of dollars for charity – is on her own important crusade this year. To continue raising prostate cancer awareness and visiting terminally ill children, seven-year-old stumpy tail cattle dog Bundy needs to loose fat… and fast.

“She has to drop two kilos – she looks like a wombat at the moment, especially as she has no tail,” laughs owner Tex O’Grady. Tex says it’s the popularity of Australia’s only dog with a special licence to ride a motorbike that’s made her put on the beef. There are always irresistible food gifts on offer during their 80,000km-a-year charity rides, which includes duties as official champions for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and ambassadors for the Project KidSafe Foundation.

“When we are out and about people feed her sausages,” Tex explains. “It’s OK to have one – but if everyone does it, then it ends up being 60.” The famous dog from Coffs Harbour broke her back a few years ago in a non-motorbike related accident and was going to be put down, but Tex came to the rescue.

“It cost $15,000, which I couldn’t afford, but the motorcycle community came up with some of it – the rest I had to beg, borrow and steal,” he says. After six months of rehabilitation Bundy was back on the bike. Now Tex has put Bundy on a strict diet and exercise regime so she can continue doing what she loves – making a difference to people’s life while perched atop the petrol tank strapped into her harness.