PinelandCollies

08/13/2024

As a dedicated breeder committed to maintaining the highest standards in my kennel, we are focused on retaining only the most exceptional breeding prospects. My goal is to ensure that each dog selected for my breeding program exemplifies superior health, temperament, and conformation, contributing to the continued excellence of the breed. At this time, we are seeking to place our grow-out puppy, Charlie, into a loving pet home. Charlie adores children and has one of the best temperaments we've ever produced. However, as he continues to develop, we've noticed a few minor details that make him better suited for a pet home rather than as a potential breeding male here at Pineland. He is on the smaller side for a male, which could make him the perfect companion for someone not seeking a larger-sized Collie.
If you're interested in inquiring about Charlie, please send us an email at;
[email protected]
Colorado Springs
Charlie has many puppy show ring wins, and a reserve winners dog under his belt.

08/12/2024

*HOW MUCH FOR A PUPPY?*

As a breeder, I’d like to provide some insight into the costs involved in responsible breeding, particularly when it comes to health testing, showing dogs, ensuring genetic compatibility, and raising well-socialized puppies. These expenses contribute significantly to the price of puppies, and they are crucial to ensuring the long-term health and quality of the breed.

**Health Testing:**
Before breeding, responsible breeders invest in comprehensive health tests for their dogs to screen for genetic conditions. These tests, including eye tests, are essential to ensure the puppies are healthy and free from hereditary issues. The cost of these tests can range from $300 to over $1,000 per dog, depending on the breed and the conditions tested for. Recently, the prices for eye tests have increased, adding to the overall cost of ensuring that each puppy is in the best possible health.

**Genetic Compatibility:**
Breeding isn’t just about pairing any two dogs together. It’s crucial to ensure that each dog is compatible with one another not only in terms of conformation but also through detailed genetic panels. This helps to prevent genetic disorders and ensures that the puppies have the best possible chance of a healthy life. These genetic tests and careful planning are essential parts of responsible breeding, but they also add to the overall cost.

**Quality Reproductive and Puppy Vet Care:**
The costs of ensuring a healthy pregnancy, birth, and early life care for puppies are significant. Quality reproductive care for the dam and top-tier veterinary care for the puppies throughout their development are crucial investments that contribute to the overall well-being of the litter.

**High-Quality Diet:**
Both parents and puppies are provided with a high-quality diet, ensuring they receive the best nutrition for their health and development. This is another essential component in raising strong, healthy puppies and adds to the overall costs of breeding.

**Showing Dogs:**
Showing a dog in conformation shows and other competitions is another significant expense. Entry fees, travel, grooming, and handling costs can add up quickly. These shows are important for evaluating the dog’s quality and confirming that they meet breed standards, which in turn helps ensure that future puppies are of the highest possible quality. Professional handler fees at shows are an additional cost, ensuring that the dogs are presented in the best possible way.

**Marketing and Photography:**
The cost and time invested in marketing and photography, not just of the litter but of the parents, are crucial for gaining approval from reputable kennels for breeding. Good kennels are selective about the dams they approve, and quality marketing helps showcase the strength of the breeding program.

**Raising Puppies:**
Raising well-adjusted puppies requires time, effort, and the right environment. My puppies are raised indoors with my children, ensuring they are well-socialized and exposed to numerous sights, sounds, and different places. This is of utmost importance to ensure that buyers receive a well-tempered and conditioned puppy that is not fearful and is good with children. An ethically bred puppy will also come crate-trained, somewhat house-trained, and neutral to other pets, new people, and distractions.

**Breed Education and Lifelong Support:**
As a responsible breeder, I also provide breed education and lifelong support to new owners. This commitment ensures that the new puppy owner has the guidance and resources needed to raise a happy, healthy dog.

Breeders who take these steps are committed to the well-being of their dogs and the overall improvement of the breed. While this does lead to higher prices, it also provides peace of mind to buyers, knowing that they are getting a healthy, well-bred, and well-socialized puppy.

I hope this helps explain some of the reasons behind the pricing of a puppy from a preservation breeder.

Pineland Collies
Tyler & Brenna

07/18/2024

This beautiful girl Lana, is retired and we would be willing to place her with a local to Colorado home. She is a great girl, and the BEST couch potato and companion- she loves kids!

Lana was officially retired last week(she had 2 litters for us here), and we formalized retirement with a spay- she is recovering nicely and enjoying couch privileges. As always, thank you to Dr Shumack at Village Center Veterinary Care. Cannot say enough great things about this clinic, Doctors, and staff; I highly recommend them as the premier location in the Springs for your animal care!🐾💖🐾

07/02/2024

I have to share this photo Sam sent me of Whiskey. I just love this boys coloring, and he is getting more handsome by the day. She reports that it is a real feel of 99 degrees- he is out sun bathing and she keeps having to coax him inside. Born to be southern😆

06/29/2024

I probably do not have a ton of homes that do NAVHDA hunt dog type work. But my parents DO hunt test with their shorthairs, so I wanted to share🥰

06/24/2024

OFA’s are an important piece of the health testing puzzle. Pleased to report that Amy - Pinelands Hello Girl, (momma of our last litter) just received her results for HIPS and they are:
EXCELLENT.
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you to Village Center for your excellent rads.

06/12/2024

Collie Health Foundation Testing Resources CHF members, as ethical collie breeders and owners, will want to take advantage of opportunities to perform health testing and be involved with ongoing studies impacting the purebred collies they own and select for breeding. CHF SPONSORED SUBSIDIES ARE FOR....

06/07/2024

Are you Breeding to Show or Showing to Breed?

Do you know what I mean by this question?

Let me first say that there is no right or wrong answer. As breeders, exhibitors and dog show people, we are all doing this sport for different reasons and we may enjoy one area more than another.

When I first started showing and then breeding dogs, I was very much encouraged by my mentors that success is at the breed level. There was little interest in going beyond a championship with a dog. It's important to remember that when I started programs like the Owner Handled Series and Grand Championships were not yet in existence. If you went beyond showing a dog to its championship you were going for BOB or BOV or BOS, group placements, etc. In short, it was much more challenging to do much beyond a championship unless you had a really superior dog and could show it well enough to be competitive.

The goal was really showing your animals to their championships so they could be bred. Of course, good breeders know that a championship is not be all and end all and certainly not all champions need to be bred. But, it's also true that just because an animal is not a champion doesn't mean they shouldn't be bred. We are all looking for different things in our breeding programs and an unfinished animal isn't a dealbreaker for many of us.

This is what I would consider, Showing to Breed. The interest is in breeding and while we still show our dogs, we aren't breeding with the intention of campaigning a dog to obtain Best in Shows or break records.

Then, there are people who breed each litter with the dream of producing that truly special specimen who, with the right handler, financial backing and all stars aligned can achieve multiple BIS, National wins and break breed records. This is what I consider, Breeding to Show.

I have found that while I have never intended to heavily campaign a dog, I have had breed goals that I enjoyed setting and achieving, I am more Showing to Breed. That said, I love showing and am certainly not participating just so I can finish dogs and breed them, but it is a big part of it.

I'm sure many people will say that they are both Showing to Breed and Breeding to Show and that's totally fair. Though I would say that all of us lean a bit one way or the other.

What are your thoughts? Again, no wrong answers! Neither is right or wrong.

Look for an upcoming live roundtable discussion on this topic soon!

06/04/2024

In collaboration with the Collie Health Foundation, we are happy to announce our new Collie Health Panel that bundles together 6 health tests that are relevant for Collie Health, three of which are brand new tests at the VGL. The new tests are:

06/04/2024

I have no puppy plans for right now however if anyone is looking for a retired collie- do not hesitate to send me a message for what you are looking for;
Sometimes it’s amazing to skip the puppy stage and go with a mature trained couch potato collie! I can network around with fellow breeders and try to find someone with an older (older puppy, young adult) that might not have worked for the show ring.

06/04/2024

A lot of celebrities have dogs, but not all of them have won at "the Super Bowl of dog shows"!🏆

Country singer and 1883 star Tim McGraw's dog Lepshi took out the Best of Breed category at the Westminster Dog Show (2023)!⭐

McGraw co-owns Lepshi, a Bracco Italiano:
https://showsightmagazine.com/bracco-italiano-a.../

"So proud of Lepshi!! He's always been a winner in our eyes!" McGraw captioned an Instagram post in tribute to his dog!🐾

06/03/2024

NJ

06/01/2024

Fun day in Colorful Colorado at Flatirons!
🎉Belleville’s Shimmering Lights of Pineland - Shimmer went Winners Bitch, Best of Winners, and Best Op under collie breeder judge Patrick Wentworth for a major win. We are beyond thrilled of Shimmer, and honored to have this beautiful girl in our yard. Shes such a good girl and she sure loves stepping into the ring to show herself off!
🎉Charlie, Pinelands the Original went reserve winners dog for his first ever show debut. We had a lot of ringside compliments on this puppy and he showed really good for Kimber and coming into the real ring for the first time.

05/20/2024

Do not under any circumstance stop trying! 🙏🏽

Score a 30% discount on any of our dog sport decals or tees at ShopCanineAesthete.com 🛒👕

05/15/2024

Look at this run! Wow!

05/14/2024

NJ

05/12/2024

💖Kimber is having fun with our tri boys today. She took first in open junior with tracer- he has not been out in a long time and he has been so happy to get back in the ring! And then Kimber Took Charlie in to play and he got another puppy group 2. They are cute together, big weekend for a little puppy.
💖Briella placed 3rd in juniors with Halo, and both days Halo took best op and best of winners for a point. This minors Halo out, & she takes a show break to search out for majors she needs to finish her CH.

05/11/2024

Kimber is having a great day.
She took first place in open juniors and then took our puppy Charlie in and got a puppy group 2!
Pinelands The Original - Charlie
BISS GCH Creekwood Pleasant Acre Tell a Secret X Pinelands Hello Girl
(SnitchXAmy)

05/06/2024

High winds here in Colorado, our puppy Charlie enjoys some quality time alone with the kids. We usually rotate dogs inside, but this time it was just him. Happy boy!

05/03/2024

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNYkMa3sQU

Dog shows are a simple process of elimination, similar to a tournament bracket, and at the end, one dog is named Best in Show. Find out how that dog makes hi...

04/29/2024

The father of our latest litter and his Group 3 ribbon. Love Snitch and his babies!

Good boy Snitch 🥰
Group 3 in Bear Delaware under respected breeder judge Joe Reno
He’s a super fun dog to show and live with 🥰

04/23/2024

04/22/2024