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The Australian Cattle Dogs take up a great part of my life and they do that together with the Cairn Terriers, cats, the peacocks and the chickens and the ducks, etc.etc. 

ACD's and Cairns have very different characters, but they fill each other nicely, especially in inventing mischief. What the one does not dare, the other will.

They get along quite well with the cats even though they challenge each other which regularly results in a dash to the underbrush. The cats are not bother by these antics as they know it's all play and that the Cattles and the Cairns will not hurt them.

My chickens and peacocks are well advised to stay in their runs as the Cairns know how tasty they are. If the Cairns go after a chicken, then the Cattles will join in the fun. Cattle Katy easily catches a chicken and with abundance of pride delivers it to my feet. Mostly there is only a few feathers missing and a bit of ruffled pride. Sometimes a chicken is helped to the other world, but then it should have stayed in its run. 

The Cattles are very nice to the pony and they know that she sometimes gives milk, which they really like, so being nice sometimes means a treat (milk) . The pony ignores the dogs and sees no reason to exert herself, you only get tired. So it's no fun to play with the pony as she doesn't react to the chasing.

 

I first saw and fell in love with the Cattles in 2001 during my six week trip in Australia. I spent a lot of time visiting different shows and breeders and speaking to many breeders and judges. During the shows I was invited by a couple of breeders to visit and stay with them to see them work their dogs. These experiences taught me a lot about the breed. The breeders in Aussie are so friendly and freely discuss their dogs with such dedicated conviction. It is these breeders that I approached about getting my first pups. After many setbacks, my first Australian Cattle dogs arrived. A red and a blue. Unfortunately the blue bitch died a couple of days after arriving from pneumonia which she contracted en route. The red has grown into a beautiful bitch. At shows everywhere she has usually won first prize, has repeatedly been Best of Breed and is now Dutch and Belgian Champion.

Out of her first litter I have kept a daughter and she too is now showing with great success and has already received different CAC's and CACIB's in the Netherlands and Belgium and is also Dutch  and Belgian Champion.

 

My other bitch , Katy, came over from Australia already an Australian Champion and pregnant when she boarded the airplane. Unfortunately the trip did not go as well as could be expected and she lost the pups. Happily to compensate the loss, her breeder almost immediatly sent me an Australian Champion dog, Oscar.

He went to a couple of shows in the Netherlands, but had a lot of trouble with the indoor shows, too much noise, something that he was not used to in Aussie.

Being the trouper he was, he did his duty but without pleasure which is why after a while I left him at home. Katy finds the noise at the shows terribly stressful and also prefers to stay at home, nice and quiet in the forest. I feel that the dogs must enjoy the experience of showing otherwise they do not perform or literally put their best paw forward.

 

 All the dogs are DNA tested for PRA (blindness) and the BAER test (hearing) is done at a Dutch animal clinic. At this clinic the pups do not go to sleep for the tests but can stand quietly on the table looking very sorry for themselves. The examination is carried out quiet calmly and when done the pups play happily on the ground between our feet. No need for crying, no stress, and plenty of laughs at their antics. This is a much better experience for the pup then being put in sleep something of which I am not overly fond of.

At six week  the pups are chipped.

All the injections are done on time and the first time we do it safely at home to reduce the chance of eventual infections in the waiting room of the clinic.

De-worming is done from the second week, every two weeks until they go to their new owners at 10 weeks. The new owners are given a de-wormer for the next de-worming in the new home.

Every new owner receives all the information he needs for the health and education of his new pup. Questions are only stupid if they are not asked, so ask away. Iwill try to answer all questions and the anwsers I don't know I will look up or contact the experts in Australia.

 

Have a lot of fun reading and exploring my site.

Please feel free to contact me at GSM 0032496118844.

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Kind Regards, Marij and the gang.