Stellar Stripes Dutch Shepherds

10/06/2024

Our handsome Rookie 💜
Enjoying life in the USA .

07/04/2024

Little Emmy, still being the fan favourite!

06/03/2024

Spa day for Rookie. Handsome man!

01/03/2024

Luca loves to lay on the table outside. She gets a good view from there. This girl doesn’t miss a thing! 

18/02/2024

04/02/2024

Rookie and his favourite kitty 💕

18/10/2023

Check out our boy Zayven. This guy knows how to use his nose! Can’t wait to see how he does in trials. His owner is doing a fabulous job training him! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

03/09/2023

16/08/2023

Stellar Stripes Fan Favourite, Emmy.
So proud of all the things she has accomplished 🥰
Well done Amanda Abs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

10/07/2023

Look at our boy Zayven. He’s now learning dock diving. Looks like he will be a natural at it! He’s also mastering the frisbee 💙

07/07/2023

Our newest intake. Meet Marlow. Marlow‘s owner passed away, so he was left alone at the house for approximately six weeks. He was a tricky one to catch in the trap, but Donna was able to get him yesterday. Now we work on getting him to trust.

28/06/2023

18/04/2023

This poor sweet senior girl doesn’t understand why her people haven’t come for her yet 😥 Can you share her picture one more time in hopes that we can find where she belongs?

She came in a couple days ago from Blackfalds and has a tattoo which seems to be a dead end, and no chip.

Please call 403-340-0128 if this is your girl!

29/03/2023

Kody and his favourite cat, Minew.

08/03/2023

08/03/2023

Happy second birthday to our first litter of puppies. Let’s see some pictures folks!

17/02/2023

Happy first birthday to our litter of 12!🎂. We are so proud of this litter and all that they have accomplished. Many titles by many puppies. As a breeder, I couldn’t be more proud ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙💙💙

06/02/2023

More titles for Emmy. Just WOW!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 What an amazing team!💕. And only 11 months old.

01/02/2023

Zayven is a lucky boy. He gets to go to work with his owner.

23/01/2023

Look at Little Miss Emmy go!
Amanda has done an amazing job with her. It’s interesting that a few people passed on this puppy because she was small and a little on the shy side. Look at her now. Good things come in small packages. She’s a pocket rocket!❤️

13/01/2023

We can’t stress this enough!!

13/01/2023

13/01/2023

In Argentina, there's a restaurant called: Restobar Dickens, with a sign saying:
We ask all our customers with all our hearts not to be upset by the number of dogs 🐕 (stray) that may be in the restaurant.
We are a pet friendly place and we give water, food and lots of love to these sweet angels. 🐾
I'm sorry if it bothers you, but they're not doing anything wrong, they're just looking for food or shelter. 😔
Thank you very much!.. ♥️
📸Unknown

07/01/2023

Kindness💕

There is an old pony in a big pen by the barn. He has no real purpose. No kids ride him, he is not a companion to another old horse.

We have no history together. He came into my life by happenstance. There are no fond, warm fuzzy memories. I owe him nothing. But he’s polite and kind, and nickers to me as I come out the door in the morning.

He eats a princely sum of special food, and has a premium round bale of irrigated grass that the other horses can only dream of. His water is fresh, and warmed in the winter. I’ve gone out there late at night to make sure he has food, and he’s the first thing I attend to after morning coffee.

Why? Why not send him to the sale where ‘someone’ will want him? At 40 cents a pound, he’d be worth a nice steak dinner and drinks in town. They’ll load him on a truck with 30 other old ponies and horses, and somewhere down that line, if he doesn’t fall from his bad knee and get trampled in the transport, he will become dog food.

There’s a bum calf in our scale house on this cold frosty night. He’s little and scrawny, with p**p stuck to his butt, and a bit of a runny nose. There’s a heater in there keeping the temp above freezing. In the morning I’ll make him a bottle of warm milk replacer and try to convince him to eat some of the pony’s special food. Bob will clean his little house and put down fresh bedding. It would be easier to have left him in the field with the 500 bigger, stronger calves, to steal milk from the occasional tolerant cow, to eventually freeze to death and feed the coyotes that lurk about the herd for just such an opportunity.

There is a wild kitten in the barn who most likely jumped off a utility truck a while back. We’ve been leaving food just for him, and making sure the heated water bowl is full, so he doesn’t have to go outside and perch precariously on the horse waterer to drink.

I guess we sound like saps, the old cowboy and I. Sort of wimpy and un-ranch like.

I guess we are. But at our age, with certain infirmities starting to creep into our daily routines, and the realization that we are not perfect, we are thinking that kindness is a virtue and care is our purpose.

Care of not just the healthy robust animals that make money and pay the bills, but care of everything we are capable of caring for - those creatures that, like us, are in need of a bit more attention to get through the day.

We didn’t go about seeking these creatures- they came to us and landed here not of their own choosing, or ours. But here they are, and off I go to town to a business that provides enough to buy the expensive milk replacer, premium hay, and special pony food.

There may be some karma in all this, or maybe not, but in the end we’ll know we did the best we could for those that needed us.

Peace. Really, I mean it.

07/01/2023

Despite being run down.
Overly tired - emotionally and physically.
Living your life in disjointed 8, 10 week periods.
Feeling isolated.
Frustrated.
Sad.

Don’t forget to stop and remember the gift you are giving to others.

The gift of ensuring your breeding stock is healthy and mentally sound, your puppies are raised in a safe and enriching environment and then evaluated so that they have a voice in their placement.

Don’t forget that you are their first hands and heart and because of your program and ability to meet their needs and express those needs to their new human, you are giving them a gift too.

They are understood.
Valued.
Honored.
Respected.

So, today is a reminder of the good you do.
You matter.
You are helping dogs and humans.
You have a place in this world.

07/01/2023

Seeing people come to buy fish and handing the owner, money, this cat went out and got a leaf to pay for her fish. On the first day, the owner of the shop thought this was very cute, so he gave her a small fish. Now everyday this cat comes in to buy a fish with a leaf.

02/01/2023

Ask the right questions, do your research, and practice patience ✍️✍️✍️

24/12/2022

Hatchet has the right idea. Stay by the woodstove in this freezing weather 🥶

24/12/2022

Kymani wishes everyone a very merry Christmas 🎄