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SMASHIN'!Toots and Babe have spent 2 nights with S&M and all is going so well. They are growing like weeds and M&S are in parental protection mode now.
Poor little babe. She looks ok now though, as long as everything is normal for her.I can't afford a racing cart, and with our bad stray problem it wouldn't be safe for my dogs to be harnessed together. If we were attacked they wouldn't be able to defend themselves. I wanted to teach them to run on lunge lines next to a bike, but same problem, no where is free from strays.
I took better pics of my girl Cheyenne. Cheyenne is a horrible example of a puppy mill Siberian, her nose is too long, ears to large, legs too long, tail does not curve over her back right, and most telling, she is brown (Siberians come in shades of red, black, white, or agouti which is wild coloring like a wolf. But agouti has 3 distinct bands of color on a single strand of hair, she does not have this). I simply couldn't leave her there, I did not think she would survive much longer. The breeder had 16 dogs and 4 pups from 2 different mother dogs. 1 of the other pups was nearly as sick as poor Cheyenne, but I could only afford to buy 1 of them. Plus I called animal control and they would need a sick dog to prove he was unfit to care for them. They did not want any pictures, vet bills, or a copy of her AKC paperwork from me to build a case against him though. Cheyenne still has issues, no one other than my husband, kids, and myself can get near her. She pee herself in fright if anyone handles her but us or if strange dogs get too close to her. It took months before she even trusted us. She was 11 weeks old when I brought her and had never known human touch, she screamed something awful when I picked her up to bring home. She had also never know grass or dirt as she had lived her whole life on a soaking wet concrete pen before I got her. This is our baby girl Cheyenne, who is now 8 months old.
They are both Australian Kelpies. Tilly is a little overweight in that pic (only by a couple of kilos though) she is red and tan. Ita is black and tan. Most kelpies have some border collie in them somewhere.
Oh, I should say both cattle dogs and kelpies are known to have dingo in their heritage which might be why Tilly looks a bit that way. (Genetic testing on kelpies has shown dingo in some lines)
So are cattle dogs called Heelers there? Is a kelpie a lighter breed than the cattle dog? The Heelers here are quite stocky.
Starfire, where I lived in England, one of my neighbours had 5 huskies and would take them through the nearby forest for hours at a time, with them pulling him on a special racing cart. What a noise!
Toots and Babe have spent 2 nights with S&M and all is going so well. They are growing like weeds and M&S are in parental protection mode now.
So far they still come right up to us and tell us about what's happening lol and want to be close to me when I go outside, Missy looks confused by it. lol Tonight they went into S&M house all by themselves it made me feel so good to see how they are feeling at home with them.Once you turn the goslings over to the adults the goslings run like crazy from you. Everything you shared with them as goslings kind of leaves and they become adults.