Lightning Round Aussies

12/07/2024

Zap earned her RAE2 in rally in Harrison this morning we finally have all of our triple Q’s towards our RACH now (just need more Master points 🙃) Good girl, Zap! ⚡️ 💜

12/07/2024

Mother and daughter 🥰 Wendy & Zap. Both got titles today, both got multiple placements, Zap got high combined and both were very good girls 😊🩷💜⚡️⚡️🥰

12/07/2024

Little Wendy earned her Rally Novice title in Harrison today with 2 great scores and 2nd place both times today. She far exceeded expectations and I am very proud of her 🥰😊🩷

12/06/2024

Zap decided to surprise me by earning High Combined in Rally today under judge Mariana Pavlovsky. Super proud of her! Good girl, Zap! ⚡️ 💜 Clearly she is just as thrilled as I am 😉🤣

12/06/2024

Zap earned her Rally Master 2 title in Harrison today! And she showed much better today than she has in a while. Super proud of her! Good girl, Zap! 💜🥰

12/03/2024

We’ve been playing some rally getting ready for an upcoming rally trial, so I entered a virtual novice run for Wendy and we got the results back that we qualified with a 95. Her first novice leg! Good girl, Wendy! 🥰🩷

10/14/2024

We want to give a shoutout and congratulations to Nova and her owner Courtney! They competed in Barnhunt over the weekend and Nova earned 3 first places, High in Class and her novice RATN title! Nova and Courtney have been working really hard and we are so proud of them! Join me in congratulating Nova and Courtney! 😊💜🎉🎊👏🍾

09/19/2024

Some pics of Zap playing rally a few weeks ago 😊💜

09/19/2024

Some pics of Stitch from rally a few weeks ago. What a goofy boy 😊💙

09/16/2024

2 miles with 2 good girlies 😍😊

09/15/2024

Tesla, Zap, Wendy and Phoenix say, “Go Chiefs! Beat those kitty cats…I mean Bengals 😉”

09/13/2024

Got a nice surprise in the mail today that wasn’t a bill 🙃🤣 I guess Zap ended 2023 as the #8 Australian Shepherd in Novice A Obedience, so they sent us a certificate for it. Good girl, Zap! 😊❤️

09/11/2024

We want to give a shoutout to another puppy from our ZapxStitch litter from 2023, Boudin! He has grown into such a sweet boy and has a personality that matches his dad Stitch. He loves the pool at his house and he’s making sure to catch all the pool time he can as summer is starting to wind down. Love this boy and so grateful he has a wonderful family to love him and spoil him 😊🥰

09/09/2024

Gotta brag on Nova and her owner Courtney! They went to a NASDA trial this weekend and she earned 2 High in Trials, a title in trailing and locating and a title in urban locating along with other placements. These 2 have worked so hard in nosework/scentwork and I am so, so proud of them. 😊

And side note, Nova is absolutely gorgeous and has matured so nicely. I am so lucky Courtney is her person. She is the perfect person with the perfect family for Nova and I love all the updates I get about her. 😊

But again, big congratulations to team Nova and I am sure this is the start of a very awesome scentwork/nosework career for these two 😉💜😊

09/07/2024

One of the decisions as a breeder I was so glad I made was starting loose leash walking skills at 6-7 weeks of age. Wendy was the easiest and most receptive to loose leash walking as a puppy and now as 14 month old puppy, she is by far the easiest dog to walk. She maintains a loose leash on our entire walk and when she goes out to sniff, once she feels tension she immediately comes back. She has had minimal leash training past early puppyhood and I strongly believe this is from that very early training. She’s even easier to walk than my RACH dog. This is just a video example from our walk today at the start of our walk.

09/01/2024

Congratulations to Stitch on earning his Rally Excellent title this weekend with 2 1st places and a 3rd place. He was very happy to be in the ring “doing the things”. Such a happy boy with his grinch feet 🤣🙃

08/27/2024

Sad, but worth sharing. This breeder was found murdered with a litter of 13 Doberman puppies stolen. This is a fear breeders have. Frequently we get asked if people can come meet our dogs and “tour our facility”. Most of the time, my answer is no and this is why.

First off, we don’t have a facility. Our dogs are pets and members of our family first and live in our home…our home where we and our children also live. So it would be the same as me asking if I can come into your home; if we’ve never met and only had a couple of messages or email exchanges over the internet, there is a gamble having you come into our home.

In terms of meeting our dogs, if there is a localish trial nearby that I might be going to with a dog, I will usually say “ hey, we can meet here and I will bring that dog with me for you to meet”. With puppies, I try to post frequently on social media channels with pics and videos, so you can see puppies but also can see the environment they are being raised in.

We do have security cameras everywhere and are firm believers of the 2nd amendment in this home, but we also don’t want to be in scary situations either. We have had someone attempt to break into our home in the middle of the night before and thankfully a couple of Aussies scared him off since herding dogs will protect property and territory. But again, we don’t want to be in that situation again and would never want anything to happen to our dogs either.

Unfortunately, some places will list out things to look for in a good breeder and lots of them lost out ones I agree with like health testing, contracts, etc; frequently, I see listed that they will let you see the dog’s home and see where puppies are raised. And again, because of this story, that is why we don’t follow that recommendation. I don’t fault other breeders who don’t let random strangers into their home to meet dogs and puppies for the same reason.

So if you ever reach out to a breeder to come to their home to meet their dogs, “see their facility” and meet puppies and they say “no”, this may very well be the reason. Don’t always treat that “no” as a red flag in choosing a breeder if they do all the other right things. And before getting offended by the “no”, ask yourself if you would be willing to let someone you’ve never met before come into your home just because they reached out to you online and are interested in dogs.

A friend checked on Paul Peavey's property when he was first reported missing and noted multiple valuables missing, including 13 Doberman puppies.