Past dogs

Past dogs bios
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Reese - ABCA

Power, Strength & Poise
In 2011 Reese assumed the duties that were provided for 6 years by our Excellent Stud and Herding Dog, Wizard (now retired)
Reese's ancestry is one of the best in the Cattle Dog World
He has sired several litters of promising pups, he is soon to retire.

ABCA 361861 Born June 2010

For 6 years Reese was our primary stud he turned over the reins to the next generation led by Diamond Hoot

He is now over 50 lbs, tall, lean well defined muscles with an in your face style when it comes to working livestock he is intense.

#Reese is available to go to a good home to live out his retirement days.#

Evie ABCA 304565 8/18/06-10/2816
Our First Red Border Collie Pup

BRE Evie is out of our retired dog Shy. She is a red and white female. Medium coat and size are her physical description, but we value her for her smart, obedient, and loving attributes. Her lines include Brian Abingdon's Reserve National Working Trialdog Champion Cattle dog, Rojo, plus Excellent Hanging Tree and Chrystal Rose Cattledog lines. Her puppies turned on early showing great promise. Her pup s went on to be excellent herding, agility, and companions over the years. We currently have one of her daughters Pearl, she has turned out to be a good dog.

Zoe as she is learning to herd.

Ring herding Cattle.

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Diamond Sky ABCA 345905
We lost Sky in a tragic car accident Feb 25, 2012.
She was A Tradition that Continued

Sky is out of Al Vieira's, Diamond Stock Dogs, Orland, CA. Sky is came out of some of the top cattle dog lines in the country. Sky had style, grace, nice balance, worked well in tandem as she learned from the more experienced dogs. Quiet in the home, fearless working in the fields. Sky was trained by Brian Abingdon of Abingdon Ranch in Cheshire, Oregon.

At her first trial Sky continued to maintain the tradition of her ancestors, at the 2011 Memorial Day, Three Rivers Dog Trial near Ashland, Oregon, Sky was the Combined High Score Winner for her class, Cattle, Sheep, and Ducks.
In January of 2013 we were fortunate enough to acquire Diamond Hoot who is out of Sky's sister as well as Diamond Dot a cousin.

Sky waiting her turn at the post.

Wizrd has a medium coat

Wizard ABCA 231759 Retired
Retired from being a sire, now on a ranch in Monroe, Oregon. The Classic European style border collie.

Wizard works sheep, cattle, goats , and poultry. Wizard is able to work blind to bring in the sheep when there is a need. He is fully trained. Wizard has a good outrun, drives larger herds and knows both ends of a cow. Wizard is a great-grandson of International Champions ##Wisp (Robert Dalziel) and #Roy (J.Templeton)

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Winter or Summer Wizard will work whatever stock you have Wizard's style while working is smooth and controlled with a large outrun, eye, with a drive to work. He had worked on sheep and cattle ranches dog. With his strong eye, eagerness to work, and he is trustworthy with the livestock. It is easy to forget not all border collies are gifted as Wizard. Past Wizard's litters have had raving reviews. He passes on his best traits. At his final herding trial Wizard took 1st Place (Cattle, Ducks , Sheep) at the Three Rivers Stockdog Herding Trial in Ashland, Oregon. See below for pedigree.

Wizard's Walk up

Driving the calves

Wizard is an excellent all around dog. Tough on cattle , and dominating on sheep.

Praise for the dog as the night falls on a early September evening.

Nell (sold)
unlimited ability

Nell's green eyes shine

Nell we picked sight unseen as we were looking for the livestock lines to replace our Gracie. Gracie had a litter sired by Wizard with their offspring reported to be highly regarded for their ease of training, very strong work ethic, high drive, eager to please personality. Nell is out of Gracie's sister, Mollie. Nell did not look like much when her first pictures were taken. She had less size to her then most of her litter mates, did not like to be held, she was always aware of what was going on around her, not into being the puppy who liked licking your face lets play type behavior. Something about the way she acted was as if she always was in work mode even as a pup. Nell just did not like many people, touching she did not like as it distracted her from her herding mode. This gal was just a bit different then your average border collie.

Nell on a walk up

Nell, a short haired red and white, has many of her traits seen in Gracie's pups. We were so proud of her as she had this way about her that she has always planing how to herd in her head she just needed the commands to achieve her goal. We had done a small amount of training on her, to get advice on what might be a way to increase our training skills we went to a clinic taking Nell. We knew she was better than the average bear when we took her into the clinic ring, and everyone on the side lines sat up, stopped talking, and watched the ten month old pup work. That day serous offers for purchasing her came our way from some very serious buyers.

I Quinn-a work horse of a dog - ABCA {Sold|

Quinn showed a great promise as a strong well rounded herding dog. Quinn held no fear and a great deal of head smarts in working the livestock. Great coat, nice manners, loyal, devoted, eager to please, smart, and once he grew into his feet we will have a really good size dog. Quinn loves his people and works tirelessly for them. Quinn is ABCA. Quinn was placed with a sheep ranch in Brownsville Oregon.
UPDATE: Received a call a while back from Quinn's owner he loves this dog's work ethic, personality, and wants more dogs like him as he is a work horse of a dog.

BRE Bella ABCA 352889 DOB 1/7/10 {SOLD}

Born January 7, 2010, a Wizard-BRE Evie pup. Black and white female, slick coat, blue eyed, light build. This line works hard to please their owner making training easier than some of our other lines, Bella has eye and is showing promise in early training on sheep and cattle. Bella has been a joy to train as she learns quickly and can really move the livestock.

Emily Rehomed

Emily

Emily born in the spring of 2008 is a black and white rough coat spayed female out of Quinn (see past dogs, lines go back to Bill Berhow's 3 time champion Nick) and Zoe now retired. This dog is a joy to live with as she enjoys her life and shares that joy with anyone near her. Emily travels well, is leash, and crate trained. She gets along with people once she gets to know them. Emily is good in the home, never far from her people while in her home. She likes to watch TV (Animal Planet) or lay in one of her places. She has gotten along well with the other dogs, respects the house, does not push herself on you, nor does she beg for food, she likes being outside. enjoys going for rides. Emily has been a reliable watch dog. Emily responds to having her hair combed, likes to lay in the sun on the porch or in her shady spot in the yard, loads up and rides very well, plus she is agile and quick. I have enjoyed having her as a partner while we do the daily chores. Emily showed she has eye after introducing to livestock what we saw gave us a belief she has the basics of a herding dog not just a nice companion dog. UPDATE: Emily was placed with a former student of Al Vieira's who knew right away how to handle Emily. She has settled into a life living along the Oregon Coast going to work each day with her owner spending time running and playing with the owner and his loving wife after work. They tell us she is a gem just what they were looking for filling their wants and dreams for a border collie.

HR ZACK ABCA (2006) Lost Jan 2007

HR Zack was to be our trial dog. Don and Jeanie Helsley of Helsley Ranch in Idaho were Zack's breeders. Don and Jeanie Helsley are good people who we are proud to know. Zack was the best friend one could ask for in a dog. He was easy to train, loved to please, was funny, playful, protective, calm, cool and collected. He showed great promise as our future trail and around the farm herding dog. Zack had the softest coat on him, which somehow dirt did not stick to so he was always a clean dog. Zack loved the time spent grooming as much as he loved working the livestock.

Zena, NASD (2005-2006)

Zena was a gem right from the start. She came to us at just over 5 weeks old. She had spunk, energy, and style. Zena showed great promise. Zena was a calm, easy going, trainable stock dog. We called her Zena, "Zena the Cowdog" with her hair flowing out behind her as she ran, nearly always a happy lop to her run. Zena was a good size dog yet never was she anything but gentle towards her people. When we lost Zena, we held her bawling big alligator tears as she passed over, we lost more than a mere dog we lost a great companion. We cannot say enough about this dog. Tom Linenbrink of LC Ranch, Junction City, Oregon, was Zena's breeder. We are pleased to announce we have added Ring, Zena's litter mate to our lines.

Cheyenne ABCA (retired) rehomed

Shy was flown in from Arkansas as an older dog. She could best be described as cuddle dog always wanting hugs, to lay on our foot not just by your feet, you moved she was right with you always. She could do anything we asked of her. She was as smart, obedient, a joy. Shy was in our breeding program then placed in a forever home. She is now living out her life on a very nice home with a 5 acre lot, barn, workshop, garden, and play area. She reportedly plays well with the grand kids and is a great companion dog for the retired gentlemen who opened his heart to this loving dog after the death of his wife. We kept one of Shy's daughters (see Evie on the female page 1) because she was the type of dog that did it all with willingness, little training, all done with a flare.

Lilly AKC (2005-2007)

Lilly came to us as an adult. Her pedigree was star studded and she was just what we were looking for to bring into our breeding program. Her grandpa was ##Wisp, and many other sheep dog champions. Lilly loved being a mother. She cared for her pups like no other dog I have ever seen. Lilly was owned by a gal that was kicked out of ABCA just weeks before we had purchased Lilly which we did not learn about until after we had received an AKC registration months after Lilly had arrived. She was a good herding dog who had lived a hard life prior to coming to our home. Alas Lilly came with a noise phobia, one day a loud noise occurred while Lilly was out of her kennel which frightened her, she cleared the livestock fence, running into the road just in front of a speeding pickup. That day we started building a second fence between the dogs and the road then later a third fence around the kennel area to stop another Lilly from being lost too early in life. Now you know why when you come to visit there are gates at the road, into the dog area, and around the farm because losing a dog is not an event to repeat.

When you visit us you will note there are gates and fences around the place. The 6 foot cyclone fence was here when we purchase the property but we put up the gates and fences to help keep from losing another dog to the road way. We are not trying to keep people out in so much as we are trying to keep dogs in however when you do visit please let us know ahead of time so we can be there to open the gates for you or at least have all the dogs put away out of the front. We try and let the dogs run and use the sectioned off areas as group run areas. Keeping like groups with like groups as in some dogs run better without other dogs in that group.

Gracie ABCA (2007-2009)

Gracie registered ABCA from cow dog lines. She was small, quick, eager to work. Born spring 2007. Gracie worked endlessly, would recharge a few minutes than was ready to go again. Black and white traditional markings with short coat. Gracie was really a wash and wear dog when it came to keeping cleaning. Each day at meal time she would greet us with her own special sound of greeting while she lowered her head to the side and looked up at you when she was really happy to see you with a sparkle in her eye. She was always ready to get in and work where when ever we ask her to go. Gracie adored going for rides. She was my dog of choice when a quick move of livestock was needed. She stuck like glue to me in the house or in the car. I loved Gracie's little howl growl talk when she was happy to see you, she was not a pretty matching equally marked dog by any means, yet I deeply loved and miss this dog for her heart and skill. Gracie was lost to us in a accident that struck us hard. We are thankful for the time we had this gal in our lives. Gracie was bred by Josh Clark of Josh Clark Stock Dogs out of Eugene, Oregon.

BRE Zeva CKC Now on a Central Montana ranch

Goats, another day of learning.

Zeva a Zoe-Quinn 2008 spring liter female. She had been sold as a pup then returned when the owner asked us to take her back due to family issues. We took Zeva back changed her name to Zeva so she could begin with a fresh slate in her life, let her have time to adjust, learn to trust us, over time we started training. Zeva was quick to learn once she clicked. Zeva's new owner who is in Montana said Zeva has adjusted well to his home, other dogs, and livestock.

Lay down education training

Zeva a short haired black and white Border Collie.

Well, I came to you, now what should I do? I am not sure I can do that dance step but I will try once you release me.

BRE Splatt
(see those paint splatters in her white?) A Reese/Evie pup
ABCA 390312 DOB 24 July 2012
Splatt shows a lot of instinct, eye, matured well and is ready for any adventure.

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