Koliako Collies

17/07/2024

Shiraz Ch Davenloch Koliako Intoxicating CGN HIC BPD BPDX VC VCX VA NTD SDI SDN SDO SDE RN RA CW-SP CW- SPA CW- SD CW-SDA CW-SI CW-SS CW-SPI CW-SDD CW-ScR1 CW- ScR2 SDSADS1Jr CRNMCL NN AN earned her C-Wags Ranger 3 last night. Thank you Jeanne Shaw of Love 2 Play Dog Training for giving us this experience to play with our dogs and hang out with dog friends. Thank you Glenda Harris for judging last night and all the judges along the way that we got to trial under in our journey. I am so proud of Shiraz and all my nose work dogs.
I decided to post a picture of Shiraz with all her C wags ribbons as well for a Memory . Shiraz will be 11 in October .

04/06/2024

MINDSET MONDAY

We've said it before and we'll say it again, a true mentorship is about guiding, teaching, listening and encouraging. It should NOT be about dictating everything a person does.

This is an important message, we cannot count how many clients we have worked with who have been bullied by their torMENTORS.

Mentoring does not mean:

👎Control of where you choose to get a dog

👎Lifetime loyalty to a person who sold you a dog one time

👎Absolute allegiance to a person's ideas and opinions

👎Never developing your own thoughts, opinions and ideas

The best mentors are the ones who:

👍Do such a good job of teaching and guiding that you develop your own opinion

👍Encourage growth and development

👍Support without force and pressure

👍Listen

👍Have enough faith in their own teaching and knowledge that they are proud of their mentees growth

👍Are still learning themselves and understand that there is always more to learn

Be sure that your mentorship relationship is one that is mutually beneficial, open and honest and most of all encouraging and positive.

09/05/2024

Starting on August 1, all dogs entering the U.S. (including those that left the U.S. and are returning, and regardless of the country they are coming from) must be:
• healthy upon arrival
• at least 6 months of age
• microchipped
• accompanied by a CDC Dog Import Form receipt and required vaccination and veterinary documents.

Additional requirements may apply depending on where the dog has been in the last 6 months and whether or not the dog was vaccinated in the United States.

Use CDC’s Q&A tool (the CDC “DogBot”) to determine what rules apply to your dog: https://bit.ly/2rww2bq

27/04/2024

27/04/2024

10/04/2024

Taken from another post but was too good not to share:

❤️food for thought....All three of these dogs look like a doodle...right? A non-shedding, intelligent, trainable pet that looks like a teddy bear & without the “fancy poodle” look. Guess what my friends... these 3 dogs are poodles ... purebred, standard poodles with a teddy bear cut.

🧠Intelligence=poodle
🧹Non Shedding = poodle
🎓Easy to train = poodle
🐻Teddy bear Cut = Groomer

🛑People spend 2.5x (plus) the price of a purebred poodle,for a mixed breed dog that comes with no papers, typically no genetic testing & zero knowledge of the genetic history and pedigree. Please realize that doodles are popping up in rescues in crazy amounts due to unforeseen behaviors and physical traits that the breeders had no idea of knowing.... ie: shedding. It’s rare that you will find a well bred poodle in a shelter... why? Because reputable breeders take their puppies back if you can’t keep them.

⭐️Wally Conran was the first to breed a doodle and to quote his thoughts "I opened a Pandora's box, that's what I did. I released a Frankenstein. So many people are just breeding for the money. So many of these dogs have physical problems, and a lot of them are just crazy.”

💰Just because someone stuck a high price tag on the product, doesn’t mean the product is worth the price.

Buyers also don’t realize the slim chance that the puppy will not shed, or may not get the good behavior/intelligence of a standard. Wally Conran tested a litter of 10 doodles, 3 were non shedding.

Goldendoodles are a cross between a golden and a poodle. How can ANYONE guarantee non shedding when golden’s shed? Even if it’s 5th generation doodle, how can you guarantee non shedding unless genetic testing is done to guarantee that the golden gene didn’t make its way down through the gene pool? They can’t!!!

Poodles come in MANY different colors too! And yes you can get a cream/Appricot/red poodle that is the same color as a golden.

09/09/2023

This is Dainty and her blown coat. Collies are a double coated breed. With this undercoat they can tolerate heat and cold. When you shave them you take that away because the outer oat sheds very little and the hair actually has to fall out and regrow which takes a long time. When the undercoat sheds out a new one is already starting to grow. .

24/08/2023

I have some adults that I would like to give their own couch to sit on. Email me at [email protected] for more information. A fenced yard and Spaying and neutering is required.

23/08/2023

New kid on the block Piper

22/08/2023