The Cattle Dog Chronicles

meepitsmeagan · Apr 5, 2014

Okie doke. So, I totally got lucky and a reputable breeder of ACD's moved to my area about a year ago. This is the lady I handled for a few months ago. I've spent a lot of time with her dogs (two of which created this litter) so I know that these puppies should be exactly what I'm looking for.

This puppy will be flyball/dock diving/rally/obedience/herding/conformation prospect. May have an even cooler job in the future too, depending on temperament.

There are 4 girls, so I'm hoping one of them comes out with the right structure, drives, and herding instinct for what I want. Should know in about 6 weeks or so, and at 7 weeks they will be HIT'd.

Now.. what everybody is waiting for! (Props to DJEtzel for taking pictures) These guys were born April 4th.

Two boys, four girls. Both boys are reds, one red girl, three blue girls.

Plain face blue girl:

Half mask blue girl:

I also got to see my best girl (Story):

DJEtzel · Apr 5, 2014

It fits and sits.

and that's all I have to say about that

Julee · Apr 5, 2014

Get a BLUE PUPPY

BLUE.

PUPPY.

BLUE PUPPY.

Zoom · Apr 5, 2014

HOW can you tell what color they are when they're little white gerbils? :rofl1:

Congrats on seeing FuturePuppy from the get go!

Tortilla · Apr 5, 2014

So exciting! They are so cute!!

meepitsmeagan · Apr 5, 2014

Julee said:

Hehe! I'm sooo rooting for the red girl!

Zoom said:

The pigment on the ears and any markings give off future color.

GoingNowhere · Apr 5, 2014

I had no idea cattle dog pups were so white! They're cute

DJEtzel · Apr 5, 2014

Zoom said:

THAT'S WHAT I SAID.

Breeder goes, "See?" and picks them up and puts them in my face with spots up.

Nope. Still don't. I nodded along, though. :rofl1:

Julee · Apr 5, 2014

meepitsmeagan said:

Noooo!

Kootenay · Apr 6, 2014

Awesome! They are super cute. Mom is really nice looking too! I think I'm developing a bit of a thing for cattle dogs.

Taqroy · Apr 7, 2014

BORN ON MY BIRTHDAY SO MUCH WANT.

Seriously, I'm seeing cattle dog puppies EVERYWHERE and it's killing me. I am so jealous. Momma dog is beautiful, I bet the pups will be fantastic. Would you mind pm'ing me the breeder name? I've been wanting to poke around the ACD world a bit.

meepitsmeagan · Apr 8, 2014

Kootenay said:

I may dabble in some Fenzi bitework stuff. I'm interested to see how it goes. If it goes well, I could see you loving them more.

Taqroy said:

Done! I sent you a novel.

meepitsmeagan · Apr 15, 2014

Puppies are over a week old now. I get to see them tomorrow afternoon.

Breeder cellphone picture:

meepitsmeagan · Apr 17, 2014

I cuddled little ACD potatoes yesterday. GAH THEY ARE SO CUTE.

Red girl is definitely a spunky one. She was screaming at me the whole time I was cleaning the whelping box and trying to crawl out of the basket

Stinker. Both boys are super cuddly as well as blue ear spot and blue half mask girls. Half mask blue is my current favorite.

Enough jibber jabber. Y'all want pictures!

These are unedited. So time consuming.

DSC_1157 by sinnerinspurs, on Flickr

DSC_1135 by sinnerinspurs, on Flickr

DSC_1143 by sinnerinspurs, on Flickr

Begin edits (some of these I let the software autofix and didn't like how they came out).

DSC_1201 edit by sinnerinspurs, on Flickr

MOAR.