Litters

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Breeding goal

Also based on those results, we hope with any planned combination to reach our goal we are aiming for when trying to breed the most perfect Border Collie (at least in our eyes): a healthy dog with great working ability and will to please (for any kind of dogsport/work) with a suberb temperament and character and as bonus nice to look at. We are not selling our puppies just only as being a pet or showdog, we expect the new owners to know that the Border Collie is a true working dog and therefor we want them to get a job or compete in a dogsport like agility, flyball, obedience, tracking or SAR.

Planned litters

18 May 2012

Ruby

TomTom

On March 16, 2012 our Ruby (pictures) has been mated for her first litter. Ruby is a very special ee red lady with a brown basis (meaning she is both red and brown at the same time) and even with the possibility of being a merle (a colour which cannot be seen in ee red). For almost 3 years ago we have imported her as being a very promising young puppy out of the USA from more than 75% pure working lines (ABCA and ISDS). All expectations we had, she has forfilled more than we could hope for. Next to an amazing friendly character, she has everlasting working ability and enthusiasm for everything we can think of. Her and our passion is for 100% into agility, something she really loves to do and with marvelous speed and eagerness, both in practice aswell as on competitions.

We did not need to think very long and hard finding her the perfect partner for this first litter: for sure it is going to be our own young male TomTom (pictures). This young fellow is also very special to us: we were allowed to breed his fabulous mother Nessa for 2 litters. Unfortunately we could not keep anything from her first litter to continue her lines due to the fact that some months after the birth of her first litter, the full brother to the studdog we have used was affected by epilepsy. For her second and final litter we have used frozen semen of a highly workable male from Finland out of so much appreciated lines. This AI gave us only 1 puppy but thankfully he is more than wonderfull: our TomTom! Next to his stunning looks, TomTom is als very highly driven in doing agility and owns a great will to please in anything his co-owner is asking him to do for her. And ofcourse lets not forget his open and friendly character.

Out of this combination we are expecting black/white and ee red (red/white) puppies with a small chance for blue merles (who all will be carriers of brown and ee red). These puppies are from an unique and rare combination with a great deal of working lines and will to please, something very special in this colour. We are looking for new owners who are NOT only looking for a special/populair colour but are looking for an active/sportive competition dog from special lines and who are willing to offer their new friend more than enough physical and mental challenges!

For more information about the mating, pregnancy, the birth and later the first 8 weeks of the little ones, you can take a look here.

29 May 2012

Lynn

Ziggy

On March 27, 2012 our very special girl Lynn (pictures) has been mated for her first litter. Lynn is a stunning brown tri girl from excellent lines coming from the Canen kennel in the UK, of which the owner/breeder sadly died this year. We have gotten Lynn almost 2 years ago when she was a little insecure young dog of 8 months old who unfortunately at that time did not had the life she deserved and wanted. After lots of work and TLC (tender/love and care) of her new fosterhome Barbara and John, she now has turned to the wonderfull lady she is today. Lynn has an amazing friendly and open character and she loves to work and please you as long as she also gets her cuddles. She is in training for both herding and agilty so we will see what the future brings for her.

Out of respect for her breeder, we wanted to find a special male for her first litter, preferable from strong herding lines. Thanks to internet and facebook I have been in contact for a while with a nice Danish lady who owns 2 stunning working dogs (father and son) of great lines. I feel very honoured she has allowed me to use her young male Ziggy for his first mating. Ziggy is not only stunning in looks and coming from perfect working/herding lines who go back by example to Glen and Roy of Serge van der Zweep, but has himself a great working ability and gorgeous style of herding, just like his dad. On top of this his character is so friendly and open, we could not wish for anything more. He surely lives up to a sentence out of a song of Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney: I am a lover not a fighter!

We are expecting brown/white/tan puppies from this special conbination who definately deserve very active/sportive new owners who maybe also have some interest in herding!

For more information about the mating, pregnancy, the birth and later the first 8 weeks of the little ones, you can take a look here.