Question: Australian Kelpie is an Australian sheep dog successful at mustering and droving with little or no guidance. What was the primary use of the Chinese Chongqing Dog in its early years ?

Context articles: Koko (dog)
Wide Comb dispute
Tugou
Chinese Chongqing Dog
Sheep dog
Australian Kelpie
Muster (livestock)
Robert Kaleski
Bond (sheep)
Sheep dog (disambiguation)

Koko (9 April 2005  – 18 December 2012) was an Australian canine film actor and fundraiser, an Australian Kelpie who best known for his role as Red Dog the title character of the 2011 film "Red Dog".
 He was owned by Nelson Woss, a producer of "Red Dog".
The Wide Comb dispute was a landmark Australian industrial dispute.
 Australian sheep shearers, represented by the Australian Workers' Union, opposed the alteration of the Federal Pastoral Industry Award to allow the use of shearing equipment that used combs wider than 2.5 inches.
 Business and farming groups, such as the National Farmers Federation, supported the alteration of the award as they believed that the wider combs increased productivity.
 The dispute culminated in a 10-week national strike by shearers in 1983.
 The dispute was resolved by the decision of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to allow the use of the wide comb shears.
 The defeat of the AWU in the wide comb dispute has been widely cited as the cause of a decline in union membership and militancy amongst Australian shearers.
Tugou (土狗, pinyin: "tǔ gǒu"), literally means Native Dog in Mandarin Chinese, is the general name for several dog breeds originated from China and still abundantly exists across the country today.
 Tugou includes the most popular Chinese dog breed - the Chinese Field Dog (, pinyin: "zhōng huá tián yuán quǎn"), Chinese Chongqing Dog, Xiasi Dog, and several other native dog breeds distributed across China.
 They are roughly 45–50 cm tall at the shoulder.
The Chinese Chongqing Dog is a rare breed of dog native to the Chongqing city of China.
 In its early years, it was used for hunting wild boar and rabbits, but it's now used in China to protect families and belongings.
 They are an ancient, natural breed said to have existed for 2,000 years since the time of the Han Dynasty in Ancient China.
 After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the breed's numbers were greatly reduced, and only people in rural communities still kept it; the breed is still rare, even in China.
A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep.
 These may include livestock guardian or pastoral dogs used to guard sheep and other livestock in farms for farmers, and herding dogs used to herd sheep and other livestock.
The Australian Kelpie, or simply Kelpie, is an Australian sheep dog successful at mustering and droving with little or no guidance.
 It is a medium-sized dog and comes in a variety of colours.
 The Kelpie has been exported throughout the world and is used to muster livestock, primarily sheep, cattle and goats.
A muster (Au/NZ) or a roundup (US) is the process of gathering livestock.
 Musters usually involve cattle, sheep or horses, but may also include goats, camels, buffalo or other animals.
 Mustering may be conducted for a variety of reasons including routine livestock health checks and treatments, branding, shearing, lamb marking, sale, feeding and transport or droving to another location.
 Mustering is a long, difficult and sometimes dangerous job, especially on the vast Australian cattle stations of the Top End, 'The Falls' (gorge) country of the Great Dividing Range and the ranches of the western United States.
 The group of animals gathered in a muster is referred to as a "mob" in Australia and a "herd" in North America.
Robert Kaleski was a self-taught writer, bushman, environmentalist and canine authority living in New South Wales at the turn of the nineteenth century.
 While he is perhaps best known for his role in breeding the Australian Cattle Dog he also developed the first breed standard for the Australian Kelpie, wrote on a number of practical subjects for the newspapers of the time, and published works of fiction in magazines such as The Bulletin.
 In addition Kaleski patented his designs for improved farm implements, and developed and applied successful theories of soil management in times of drought.
Bond sheep are an Australian sheep breed that was developed around 1909 near Lockhart, New South Wales by Thomas Bond when he mated Saxon-Peppin Merino ewes to stud Lincoln rams for primarily wool production.
 The resulting progeny was selected on the basis that they would be more suited to the Riverina environment.
 Initially these sheep were known as ‘the Commercial Corriedale’.
A sheep dog is a dog or breed of dog traditionally used in the herding of sheep.