PLEASE CHECK MY AVAILABLE PAGE and the NEWS FLASH page as well. . MY MOVE TO TOWN HAS BEEN VERY HARD ON MY DOGS. July 30, 2010.
Welcome to the site of Dixdlor Australian Shepherds. This is a rather new site and I am still working on getting it right. Please stop by often.
CHANGES ARE HAPPENING AT DIXDLOR.....I will be selling the ranch and moving into town. I have reduced the number of dogs to the city limit, I thought. I have just learned I can legally have only 4 dogs. I will be looking for a suitable home for my Chinese Shar Pei mix. She is 5 years old and a sweetheart. Love those THICK LEATHER EARS and soft golden coat. She is soo Shar Pei looking, just has the wrinkles ironed.
IT MAY MEAN ONE OF MY AUSSIE YOUNGSTERS MUST BE RELEASED AS WELL.
JUNE 1, 2010. Lady's new home has been decided.
LADY is on her way to her new home. GOOD LUCK MY LITTLE LADY. I MISS YOU
NEWS FLASH. I moved into a town of dog haters. I had a neighbor file a complaint that I had too many dogs, even before I moved into town. I filed for a varience to keep one more dog, the rescue Shar Pei mix. I do not allow my dogs to bark for any period of time. They may issue one bark appiece before they hear the command, NO BARK and stop. One neighbor incited ,many others to complain whenever they hear a bark, that it is my dogs barking. Dog lovers, stand together. We don't want to have to debark any dog that lives in the city. No person with a dog in my neighborhood came forward to the meeting, and I understand why. They did not want to be the next dog owner to be attacked by their "loving neighbors".
http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/04/09/not-a-good-week-to-be-hsus/
ALERT, the HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES ( HSUS) is NOT your local humane society. WHen you give money to that organization VERY LITTLE money actually goes to help dog and cats. It is used for the organization's expences and to promote the idea that family pets should be a thing of the past. PLEASE GIVE YOUR DONATIONS DIRECTLY TO THE RESCUE OF YOUR CHOICE.
I have been "in dogs" since the 60's. Guess that tells you how old I am. For 35 years, while I lived in Milwaukee, the breed was Poodles, all three sizes over the years. I started with a pet quality toy. Then I added a show quality black standard poodle. After she had been bred, we learned about Hip dysplasia. In those "early days", it was thought only German Shepherds where subject to Hip problems. When she crossed over the Rainbow Bridge , a black standard poodle from xrayed, champions became our new foundation dog. She finished her AKC title by 14 months of age in very limited showing. She was bred 3 times and produced several champions.
As I "matured", I found it easier to groom a miniature and concentrated on silvers. Over time the quality improved a great deal, but so did the height, and many of the BEST quality went over 15". My last silver miniature poodle went over the rainbow bridge at almost 18 years of age, with 5 generations of my breeding behind him. I still see one of his 12 year old sons regularly.
When my husband retired after 37 years with the Phone Company, we moved to our 80 acre ranch in northcentral Wisconsin. Although I still had a few poodles, I fell in love with an unregistered blue merle aussie pup from a nearby farm. I decided to change to a breed that would be easier to maintain with our new lifestyle, but hesitated to add another breed with "lots of grooming". I decided on the Australian Cattle Dog. My foundation dogs came from 3 differant breeders across the country, but with very similar pedigrees. They all easily finished their titles, some with both AKC and UKC. In the meantime my "BLUE" was lost to cancer at age 3. By the time my triple champion ,Levi , had sired 3 litters, at age 6, his annual eye test showed he had PRA. That ended the breeding and showing of the ACD's for me, and I thought retirement from showing.
We had adopted a 3 year old Briarbrook bred aussie, with the agreement he would be neutered. I adopted a rescue mostly Chinese SharPei from our local humane society, but I missed showing dogs, A LOT. I wanted to have a smaller dog and learned that there were small aussies whose breeders had founded a minature registry. Their plan was to apply for AKC regcognition down the road. I bought 3 super nice miniature aussies from around the country ,all with AKC/ASCA registered bloodlines, and easily finished International titles on them all. When it became obvious AKC was not going to accept the MASCA registered aussies, I got an AKC red tri aussie from lines that produced dogs that matured at the small end of the required size.
Shania matured at 18 1/2", finished her UKC champion title, had all the genetic tests done to clear her health, got an OFA Good, and was bred at age 2. My plan was to keep one or two pups to show. They were all so really, really nice, that I kept 4, yes "FOUR".
Now if you are still reading this page , check out the GIRL's and BOY's pages to see who stayed. I try to update the Photo Gallery with new pics every now and then.
HOPE YOU CHECK BACK OFTEN, to see how the kids are doing.
