Cattle Raiding

Cattle raiding is the theft of live cattle, typically several or many head at once rather than a single animal, and carries different regional names and lore depending on where it occurs. In Australia the practice is generally called duffing, with the offender known as a duffer, though in parts of the country, especially Queensland, it goes by the separate term poddy-dodging, with the perpetrator called a poddy-dodger. In North America, particularly within Western cowboy culture, the same underlying offense is known as rustling and its perpetrator as a rustler, a term that became one of the defining crimes of the American frontier.