06/12/2024
I am sharing 9 pictures ( out of many), showing Adrian waiting for me to come home from work at 9am every Monday-Friday. If you zoom in on the clock, you’ll see how consistent she is. I love her right back❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾
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Birkby’s English Shepherds
Thank you for taking the time to read my little story. My name is Renee’ Birkby. Let me start by saying that anyone who knows me is aware of my love for dogs. No, I do not hold them in higher esteem than my family, however it is because of my four children that I am so impressed by the English Shepherd.
Let’s just say that living on forty acres of land really tempts a dog whose instinct is to hunt. We do not hunt. In a quest to find a breed that was good with children (at the time four under the age of 13), and a breed that would not leave my side for a deer, bunny, or squirrel, and would be most dedicated to my family, I found the not-so-well-known English Shepherd.
After much research I realized the rich heritage of this fine breed. There are a couple theories about how the name came about. Perhaps the most reasonable explanation is simply that the breed originated in Northern England and throughout Scotland. These dogs are thought to be the direct descendant of the cattle dogs brought to the British Isles by the Romans. Although these dogs vary in size and coloring, they remain true to type of the old Roman Cattle dogs. There is also a theory that the Amish (who referred to anyone outside their community as “The English”), referred to local farm dogs in the area, other than their own, “The English Shepherds”.
So you may be wondering why you’ve never heard of the “English Shepherd”. Well, with the changing of farming practices during the late nineteen-forties, when more and more dairy cattle rarely went to pasture, and were pretty much confined to free-style barns, the need for a herding shepherd dog began to diminish. It was also during this time more stylish dogs began to emerge.
