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.

Born litter

February 20, 2010

Rebel

Pioneer

On February 20, 2010 Rebel (pictures) and Pioneer Painted Prairie von der Kleine Arche: Pioneer have become the proud parents of 5 stunning puppies.

Pioneer is a marvelous, big (55 cm), slim build brown tricolour (genetic lilac tri) male with an amazing nice character and dito working ability. He is very active into obedience with brilliant results and also very active in training agility. Doing agility, he is (quoting his owners) sort of "over the top" and "verruckt" and needs to use his head a little bit more. At this moment he just knows one speed: fast, faster, fastest... All together he is a male to our heart: both health, character and will to please are 100% (together with a nicely agile, sportive build), we cannot wish for anything more.

Rebel is our special girl who easily takes anyone attractions with her stunning tan markings on a gorgeous blue merle coat. We are very active into agility where her immense speed is easily noticed (but unfortunately also her never clear rounds.. but we sure have lots of fun.) She is not very much interested in sheep, although both her parents Wicked and Ready are excellent in herding. Several puppies from the first litter of Rebel are showing a great working ability in herding, so she definately has it somewhere in her genes (but we cannot take it out, I guess). Rebel inside the house just loves to cuddle all the time and she is extreme social towards people and children.

We have welcomed 5 gorgeous puppies: 3 males (2 black tri and 1 brown tri) and 2 black tri females. This is a litter filled with highly active and workable Border Collies who most definite need a home with active and sportive people willing to go into competitions agility/obedience or any other dogsport. For more information about the mating, pregnancy and the birth and first 8 weeks of the little ones, you can take a look here.

We only might have 1 male available, both bitches and 2 males are already spoken for.

Planned litter

March/April 2010

Lizz

Sambuca

About a year ago we were contacted on one of the many agility competitions we can be seen every weekend, by the owner of a dog we have bred some years ago. While she was so extreme happy with both the working ability and character of her dog, she would love to own a son by him one day. Immediately I knew he would be the perfect lover for our Austrian import: the gorgeous lilac merle lady Lizz (pictures). Their breeding lines matches very nice, something we have seen the proof of by following 2 litters done by other breeders where the lines of our Gyp and our Ready are combined with a touch of our old Spottie in it too.

On January 27, 2010 Lizz has been mated by the extreme talented top agility dog Nice of you to Come Bye Sambuca of owner Hanny Meydam.

Sambuca is a stunning black and white male with gorgeous pricked ears and almost a spitting image (except the ears) from his mother Whisper. He has an intense look in his eyes when he is working agility who seems to look right through you. He has such a wonderfull temperament, he just loves everybody and everyone, is crazy about puppies and is not a fighter or dominating towards other dogs, not even males, at all (just like his dad Ready). While he was the first Border Collie for his owner, who used to work with Dutch Shepherds, it took them some time to be a real team in agility, but in 2009 suddenly everything matched and they moved up in classes very quickly. Sambuca and Hanny are now competing in grade 3 (the highest grade) in agility in the Netherlands.

Lizz is a daughter to our own Gyp and is bred in Austria. When Gyp was asked for this mating, we knew the bitch (Lizz's mother) was very good in agility and we know some more dogs of her lines also showing great agility ability in the Netherlands and Belgium. Without any doubt we had decided we would love to have a bitch puppy from this combination and with a total of 10 puppies born we had plenty to choose from. Lizz is a very friendly, cuddly bitch who is very easygoing to have around. Unfortunately through some health problems of her fosterhome she is not trained in agility but she gets plenty of work and excersize (both fysically as mentally) and is enjoying every second of her life living together with her daddy.

We are hoping to welcome around March 31/April 1, 2010 a wonderfull litter of very active and sportive Border Collies who are looking for dito new owners. In theory we can expect all kind of colours: chocolate merle, blue merle, brown/white and black/white all with or without tan markings and maybe even all colours being diluted (so blue/white, lilac white, slate merle and lilac merle). But we really hope people will not only fall for a certain colour but realize that a Border Collies is a working dog and should have a character which suits YOU, no matter what the colour is. For more information about the mating, pregnancy and later the birth and first 8 weeks of the little ones, you can take a look here.

The ultrasound has shown us, Lizz is pregnant of a small litter so at this moment all her puppies are spoken for!