The dog monument (DonT) is about a large massacre near the Nine Mile, the ashes are over in the hills to the west of 'The Box' and the monument that guards the ashes and makes fun of the massacre, is at the Five Mile.

If you get a decent topographic map of the Gundagai area (or AirView online needs java) then look to the river near the DonT monument you will see a massive mirror image of the DonT monument that is 7 miles long.

None of the DonT story is about brave pioneers. Its about colonials who went troppo forming a mad pack themselves, who killed a group of Indigenous people who lived near that huge river dog-like image, who raided the flour waggon when it becaume bogged, so the colonials laced the remaining flour with arsenic.

There was nil brave in any of it and nil brave since with the continuining slinging off via the monument of that murderous 1830s event.

There was an earlier dog 'monument' nearer the nine mile. Its image is on wikipedia.

My lot have been here since the 1840s plus we used the river dog image on our soft drink bottles (check McCabes Cordials images as they appear on ebay or bottle seller sites), so we know.
jjones
Gundagai