Whippletree Australian Shepherds

03/14/2024

Yep. Those are Birthday pops. Happy Birthday Mischief and Leland!🎂🥰 Ten years young!

03/12/2024

We had such an awesome weekend at the North Woods Australian Shepherd Club Agility Trial where Ivy earned the HIT NOVICE award. Ivy qualified in 10/12 runs, which is her best to date. I’m so proud of this little girl.
These trials are the best run, most fun trials. Everyone supports each other and a great time is had by all.

02/19/2024

Ivy got mail!

01/22/2024

A big thank you to the North Woods ASC for hosting another fun weekend of trials with ASCA Judge Mark Buehl from Texas. It was so much fun seeing old friends and watching since very competitive runs.
Ivy had some good runs and some not so good runs, but came up Novice High In Trial in the end, much to my surprise. All in all, a great weekend!

10/08/2023

Ivy rocked it this weekend at the North Woods ASC agility trial. This is her first high in trial award. She worked hard for it. She’s definitely better at this than I am.

08/25/2023

Ivy got mail!! With limited showing, Ivy landed #6 in the nation for Novice dogs in ASCA Jumpers! Way to go, Ivy!

03/23/2023

Happy National Puppy Day!
A few of our favorite pics.

03/14/2023

Happy Birthday to Leeland and Mischief! 9 years young😊. We took a trip to Pet Smart for some goodies that were shared by all.

03/13/2023

Ivy had a blast this weekend at the North Woods Australian Shepherd Club agility trial. Thanks to the club for putting on a great show, and to Pamela Bryant-Meeks for judging. This was Ivy’s third trial weekend, and her best outing yet. We qualified in 9/12 of her classes, and those three that were NQ’s were my handling errors😝. The highlight is that Ivy earned her Supreme Performance title in Novice Standard Jumpers! (It takes a total of 100 points to earn that). She’s now Whippletree’s I’ve Gotta Dance GS-N JS-N-SP RS-N.

11/14/2022

Ivy’s not sure what the ribbons are about, but she rocked it at her first agility trial this weekend! She’s unofficially Whippletree’s I’ve Gotta Dance RS-N JS-N ( Regular Standard Novice and Jumpers Standard Novice). I’m so proud of her 🥰.

05/13/2022

When days of rain leave a new pond in the pasture, it’s time to make the best of it.😊 Ivy wants to know where it’s been all this time.🤣

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas from all of us to you!

Left to right: Magnum (7 months), Ivy (16 months), Mischief (7.5 years), and Leeland (7.5 years)

09/05/2021

Aimee Schulz and Impact’s Magnum Opus went to their first ASCA dog shows near Ithaca today. In one show, Magnum was Best Of Breed Puppy and in another show, was Best Opposite Puppy. They are off to a great start.
Yes, we miss that little guy but it’s so much fun to get daily reports from Aimee on all of their adventures.

08/30/2021

The longevity of this litter still amazes me. We just happened to be dog sitting for two different families the same week and snapped this photo of the family. From left to right: Blaze, Kite, Sheila Rae, Tango, Denver and Eagle.

07/16/2021

This has been a tough week for us. We knew via Blaze’s owner that we were saying goodbye to him. He lived a very full life, from trick titles, barn hunts and a UKC Altered Championship, to name a few, and was loved immensely by his family. Five days later, Sheila Rae said it was her time, as well, much to our surprise. These two, and another brother and sister, all passed age 15 with flying colors.

Sheila Rae was named for a favorite book I would read to my first graders many, many years ago: Sheila Rae the Brave, and I would often call her that. She was brave and fun and game for anything. She loved our road trip to New York two years ago to move Aimee to Cornell. We camped and made a vacation out of it. She braved the hikes at multiple gorges and waterfalls, smiling every inch of the way. At 13, all of those rock stairs and steep paths didn’t slow her down a bit.
In her younger years, her registered name, Whippletree‘s She’s All That, was often switched (mostly by Shari and Aimee) to Whippletree’s She’s A Brat. She could be a handful. I started herding with her when she was young. She was pretty headstrong and got her share of “thank you” calls. Herding got put on hold with all of the horse shows we were doing. Her mom and grandma had earned their CH and WTCH’s and she definitely had the talent and drive to do it, as well. Sheila Rae earned the CH easily. We just never got back to going for the WTCH. When she was 12 1/2, we did get a Started Sheep Title on her. I told her I owed it to her. Plus she was a little more willing to listen, sort of. Besides, who argues with a nearly 13 year old dog about whether she really needs to put the sheep through the center panel twice on course H?
My favorite nickname: Sheza Rae of Sunshine. She was. She was always happy and looked forward to our pasture walks every evening. That was her explore time. We’d often have to wait for her to lope along and catch up to us but we didn’t mind. The other dogs learned to be patient and wait for “the old one”, another name that we fondly called her.
She was a wonderful mother to Mischief, obligingly tolerated when her other kids, Bindi and Leeland, came to visit, and totally doted on her only granddaughter, Ivy.
Sheila Rae and Blaze, you are both greatly missed. 15 1/2 years went far too fast.

07/11/2021

Mischief now has her Open Trial Dog Duck title!! Thank you, ASCA Judge Brad Warren for the 3rd place score of 102 that gave us this title. Thanks, Deb Conroy, for the awesome stock and hosting the trial.
Mischief LOVES ducks 😊.

07/07/2021

Today was a very special day. Ever since Aimee lost Twinkle in 2015, she’s been waiting for the right dog to come around. And well, today the perfect little boy just joined our family.

Impact’s Magnum Opus, “Magnum”

Bred by and co-owned with Judy Flynn Vandersteen.

Thanks Impact Australian Shepherds for this incredible opportunity. Aimee is so excited to get back into the show ring again with him!

Magnum will be staying with us until Aimee’s field season winds down this fall. Then, it’s off to New York!

07/02/2021

07/01/2021

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06/16/2021

Despite the heat and humidity, Mischief earned the first leg towards her Open Duck Farm Trial Dog award. Thank you, Outback ASC, for hosting the trial and ASCA Judge Chris Caldwell for the qualifying score.
Mischief thoroughly enjoyed doing the herding, sorting and penning involved in completing the course. She loves ducks😊

05/25/2021

Mischief, her daughter, Ivy, and I spent the weekend at a herding clinic with Jim Hartnagle instructing. Mischief worked on her duck herding skills in preparation for a duck farm trial in June while Ivy learned she can control the sheep with some distance between herself and them. Ivy has only been on sheep a dozen or so times and really, really enjoys it!