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Wee 'Chop' in Bone HeavenIs there a better sight than seeing an 8 week old pup do what he is naturally supposed to do?Fi...
22/11/2025

Wee 'Chop' in Bone Heaven

Is there a better sight than seeing an 8 week old pup do what he is naturally supposed to do?
Find himself a bone and chew to his hearts delight.

No plastic toy, no chewy treat has the same effect.

I bet this lil guy was entertained with his superb find for quite a while.

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Of all the puppies I currently have - these ones arent Suburbian Heeler ... these guys need a job. They are extremely al...
22/11/2025

Of all the puppies I currently have - these ones arent Suburbian Heeler ... these guys need a job.
They are extremely alert and stalk my legs like mini Alligators already.
Males and females. About 7 weeks old.
No. The parents havent worked. But they will work.
They have the sharp heeling instinct you dont find often and would be major unhappy in a home where they have to play with a ball.

Cattle/Farm work, Farm companion or stock Truck companions ... thats where I want to see them. Where they can live their talent

Sweet on the photos - sharp when there is movement.

Please share👍

Remember the story of Pumkin?The Lady that "oopsied" me with a litter I had neither planned nor started? And thus who ma...
22/11/2025

Remember the story of Pumkin?
The Lady that "oopsied" me with a litter I had neither planned nor started?
And thus who made me fret from thickening of belly til birth and then til genetic testing... To make sure to be able to name the Sire?

Well here they are. First glimpse of personalities showing and peeking over the barrier in the new pup house.
They are stunning boys n girls - 6 weeks old now.

Due to Boskops color genetics this litter has some amazing colors.
Boskop can inherit: Tricolor, Red, Seal, Trueblue.
Paired with Pumkin - this is more or less what I have here.

The females are tri, seal, trueblue(reserved).
The males are tri, trueblue, red.

More photos as they get older🤩

🖤Callanish Kurt🖤..is on his way home. Such a cool wee man. I ll miss him...All the best😊 in your new family💕
22/11/2025

🖤Callanish Kurt🖤
..is on his way home.
Such a cool wee man. I ll miss him...

All the best😊 in your new family
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THIS !!! 👇Training a dog to commands has nothing to do with wanting to learn or understanding what it is all for.This bo...
20/11/2025

THIS !!! 👇

Training a dog to commands has nothing to do with wanting to learn or understanding what it is all for.

This book is an eyeopener. And changed my approach towards my dogs totally and completely.

Whoever thinks to train a dog is great - should think again

Callanish"Kari" ..has arrived in her new home.Happy pup? The photos speak for themselves💕💕💕From the Stormchaser25 litter...
20/11/2025

Callanish"Kari" ..has arrived in her new home.

Happy pup? The photos speak for themselves

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From the Stormchaser25 litter by Lea&Henri ll

➡️A Heeler/ACD/Cattle Dog pup...A little Shark crossed with obnoxious Alligator and a tad of busy bee thrown in?No.If yo...
20/11/2025

➡️A Heeler/ACD/Cattle Dog pup...A little Shark crossed with obnoxious Alligator and a tad of busy bee thrown in?

No.

If you run an engine on the wrong fuel, it doesnt go properly. If you run an engine without oil you ll destroy it. If you run an engine at top revs continuously - it will not run for long.

Same goes for puppies and dogs.

You cant teach when a pup is high on adrenaline. It is a hormone produced for fight/flight situations.

➡️You can teach when the pup is calm and focussed and wants to learn.

When a pup is in a situation where nothing makes it produce adrenaline.

When the pup trusts you and feels safe with you and is wanting to learn. To figure out and to understand.

A puppy school is not the place to teach. You only confuse the pup. Early socialisation overwhelms the pup and turns it into Adrenalin-Jack-in-boxes who then learn to conquer and deal with fear and confusion. They learn from early on that following you and your commands will get it through this rough Sea of inexplicable Horror. And thus the dog will be scared and lose its bearings when you - the beacon of light- will disappear out of the door.

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I find it very easy to raise a Cattle Dog... I do so quite often. They learn very quickly and are very easy to teach and guide. I never had a pup that nipped or was a nervous bundle of energy.
But I know what I am doing. I know this very natural and instinctive breed inside out.
I have lived right in their midst for now 17 years.
I know what to expect and when - and how to set the situation up so that problems dont even evolve.

And here is the problem.
Most people dont. Most people read "has lots of energy and can be suspicious" so they over exercise, over stimulate, command train, distract and cuddle. And wonder that the pup goes crazy.

And when you tell new owners that a 9 week old pup doesnt need to be dragged through town because early socialisation is the latest geck... that a row of puppy classes only confuse a pup (and owner) ... that instant and constant command training suffocates their ability to think and that you have to focus on
FOCUS, CALM, THINKING
and expose the pup >appropriately(!) to age and development stage< - then you get looked at funny.
But we read on the net ...googled... yea rite.

Back to beginning - ACD pups take to the right situation and calm and assertive handling like a duck to water. They swim beautifully.

If you have any questions how to teach a pup to be calm and focussed - ask people who have no problems raising them.
People who know what works for a Heeler.
Not people who call themselves "Dog Trainers" and with that wording already show that they dont understand the dogs mind.

🔸️food for thought
Inspired by a post I read on a fellow breeders page - link as usual in comments

🔵🔵🔵picture of my 2 little trueblue Chaps still standing from my current litter. Sitting calmly.🔵🔵🔵

🖤"Callanish Tony" 🖤..has arrived in his new home. He went from 'Chop' to 'Scagg' and back to 'Chop' name wise.I think Ch...
19/11/2025

🖤"Callanish Tony" 🖤..has arrived in his new home.
He went from 'Chop' to 'Scagg' and back to 'Chop' name wise.
I think Chop really fits him😊

"... he came down for a train up with the working dogs lastnight. Not actually in with the sheep just hung out with us but he looooves being with us all and the big dogs. Not scared at all. Kids adore him I think he's made his mark on all of us already. 🐾"

My favourite pup scored himself a super home.

I love his looks😍😍

That's freedom at Callanish Heeler With a big Salute Barkorama we watched the lineman disconnect us from the grid.Probab...
19/11/2025

That's freedom at Callanish Heeler

With a big Salute Barkorama we watched the lineman disconnect us from the grid.

Probably hardly anyone will be able to understand what a huge importance this has - to be independent.

That's Freedom. Azadi in my ancestral language.

I wont miss the powerbill.
Nor the compliance readings that usually took weeks to arrange for a multiple dog property without(!) public access.
In a time where smartmeters with their radiation are pushed on every household as ohh so convenient. Inclusive pestering messages about a probably faulty heat pump they can now detect via their invasive system. But oh... its just to keep us safe.
Its a Trojan Horse. But thats another story...

No smartmeter made it past my dogs. Tho they tried many times - I had 2 clowns in Hawaii shirts at my gate one morning grinning and waving smartmeters around. Well they were cheered away by the crew.

Media comes up with all sorts of circus stunts - inclusive a nationwide test crawling under tables at a designated time to react to quakes. Unbelievable.
Emergency backpacks, fb quizzes testing your emergency awareness.
All this rubbish doesnt help when the power completely fails for a whole day. Or a week. or even longer.

Oh that wont happen!
No? Well it did here.

10 days without power and without communication after Cyclone Gabriell swiped Hawkes Bay - inclusive several shallow Quakes at peak rainfall.
Vodafone towers run with electricity. As do petrol stations. And the generators for the emergency power many facilities have? Well, it gets tricky when the roads are gone and no fuel can be brought in for those generators.
We were allocated a container of petrol each for household generators...now thats not really sufficient ... ...

With a bunch of dogs to look after and safe keep and feed (raw!) - this situation nearly 3 years ago was a big lesson.
Inclusive the odd behaviour of people who have good intentions to help but no idea what it means to be without power and then turn entirely bizarre - calling people in the cut off areas "Drama queens" and "Enjoys to be a Victim". And use the 3 months period of struggling without roads for their obnoxious schemings. To waltz in as soon as theroad was open again and pester me with invented nonsense.
No... Im not stuck in the past. I have just learned from it. And I am happy to share educational bits about what happened and why it is so important to be independent and aware. I had one wake up call. I dont need another one.

I have responsibilities to care for my dogs and keep them 'SAFE'.

We are now off grid now and another step away from ttl control.

yapp yapp and raff raff !

🟥Anton🟥If this wee chap would be female - he would have a long Q of people interested.Anton is Anton... not Antonia.He i...
18/11/2025

🟥Anton🟥

If this wee chap would be female - he would have a long Q of people interested.
Anton is Anton... not Antonia.
He is the funniest pup, full of beans...

What is it with most people wanting females?
I'd never get a female - would always pick a male. So much easier to have and handle.

Give me your ideas - write it into comments

Not the best/sharpest pic... but so typical of him
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The project is nearly finished.Cusco and Pumkin definitely approving of the new cabin. The rest rather annoyed they had...
17/11/2025

The project is nearly finished.
Cusco and Pumkin definitely approving of the new cabin. The rest rather annoyed they had no entry to the party...😁

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