Today my ASCA weapon litter turned two years old. I miss my ’puppy’ Sakko so much and wish he would still be with us. Here’s a photo of Tikka (JSD 2010 Miss Tikka Likka) that Mathilda published on facebook…
Sire: imp. Aggieland’s Rocky Brazos 09-05 (Boy)
Dam: imp. Hart II’s Little Miss Sunshine (Docka)
Ami blev startskottet på ett enormt intresse för renrasiga hundar. Aldrig hade jag träffat en mer lättlärd och lojal hund…
Vi fick hem Ami när jag just fyllt 13 år efter en hel del tjat på mina föräldrar. Hon kom snart att bli startskottet på ett enormt intresse för renrasiga hundar och hon tände en passion för just Australian Shepherd. Aldrig hade jag träffat en mer lättlärd och lojal hund.. Ami var den typ av hund som gjorde absolut allt för sin förare, trots min unga ålder. Hon va lättstyrd och lättmotiverad. Hon hade egentligen inga egna intressen, men levde genom mig och ville göra allt för min skull. En bättre vän blev svår att hitta!
Tyvärr hade Ami inga bättre nerver samt saknade alla vallinstinkter jag hade önskat i en Aussie. Men hennes andra kvalitéer gjorde att jag fortsatte att gräva efter kunskaper och 1.5 år efter henne hittade vi Chippa i Danmark…
My friend Isabelle’s female Chips whelped her litter with 12 year old Texas (natural breeding) today. There’s still a couple of pups unspoken for. I’ll have Rocki in my future breeding program (full-sister to this litter) and she’s a blast to be around. A really good dog. I think this cross (Pincie Creek & Hart II’s) produce some excellent dogs. There’s a female in NL (owner Anneke de Jong) that is sired from the same sire as this litter, and out of a female with the same pedigree as Chips. This female is WTCH… 🙂
Above: red merle male, photo by Isabelle Rougetet
If anyone’s looking for a puppy you’re welcome to contact me. I’ll do my best to help you get your dream dog! 🙂
Today I celebrated my 20th birthday, it was a fairly good day… Just another year until I can go to TX and drink a beer! 😉 In Sweden (and Scandinavia) the legal drinking age is 18…
Happy birthday to me! 😀
I realized that I haven’t published any videos of my dogs working reindeers yet. I think it’s time to show people what we do. Here’s a couple of short videos of my dog Chippa working at different ages. Description of every video will be available below the film.
This is Chippa at the age of 10 months old (I think) working reindeers for one of her first times in the open. She had too much speed do we decided to put her on leach. About 1.600 head.
This video was filmed when Chippa was about 20 months old. She is much more advanced in her training and are responding well to voice commands. This drive was about 10 US miles long in the deep snow. About 800 head.
This video shows Chippa when she’s soon to be three years old. It shows her progress to the dog that is able to make most decisions herself (and it’s still the right ones). At one point I yell at her to turn around and get back, than I figured there were one reindeer left and she saw it and when to pick it up.
This year Steve Shope and his dog Edi won the ASCA Finals on cattle. One of his runs are uploaded on YouTube (don’t know which one) and I’d like to share it to you:
Bitzi has moved to a ranch 2 hours away from here, now living with Angelica in Lövånger. I wish them all the best luck in the world and looking forward to this wonderful relationship with this wonderful woman.
I do believe that Bitzi will like it at her new home very much… 🙂
After having some trouble with my dogs’ health we’ve finally in a ’down hill’. Our female ”Rocki” (imported from France) was X-Rayed a couple of weeks ago and her hips came back A/A! First Australian Shepherd of mine with excellent hips. We’re thrilled with the results and really happy. Hopefully the luck will last!
Rocki is only a year old but with these great news I’ve decided to look for a male to her first litter. How exciting! 🙂
This week the Australian Shepherd Club of America has hosted it’s annual ’nationals’ to determine who’s best in the breed of this year. The results are finally in and these were the top 10’s in each class (not official):
Cattle:
Sheep:
Ducks:
Rocki became 1 year old at Oct. 19th. She’s a young dog that I’m very impressed with and am looking forward to see her development as a stockdog in the future. Hopefully she’ll be the good reindeer herder as I see potential for. I am really impressed with this Australian Shepherd female as she has a good mind (not afraid of many things) and is incredible fast. She’s always happy! I couldn’t be more pleased with this investment, she lives with my uncle and his family but I still meet her very often. Picture below was taken at 3 months old.
I wanted to mention her because her breeders, Isabelle & Bernard Rougetet (France) are repeating this litter for the last time (sire is twelve years old). They’re expecting puppies on my 20th Birthday (Dec. 10th).
Sire: Hart II’s Real Texas Rancher
(WTCH Hart II’s Stockbroker RTDcs & WTCH Hart II’s Texas Belle RTDcs)
Dam: JJ Creek Ranch Sugarfoot Sis
(HOF WTCH JJ Stinger RD RTDcs & HOF Pincie Creek Lightfoot Sis STDcsd)