Hi All Im new :)

Hi im Katie in 26 and my husband and I have a cattle/sheep farm here in Alabama. Anyways we own 6 dogs here only one of which is a lap dog. We own two Cane Corsos and a dutch shepherd dog who work the cattle and are pets the Canes are Ginger a fawn and black 4 year old female and i call her my cuddle bug she loves to try and get in my lap and give me kisses lol. Our other Cane is a 6 year old black Male named Ember he's more of my husbands dog really but is still really sweet and really work orinated. Then we have a 11 month old male Dutch Shepherd Dog dog named named Slicker. Slicker is all puppy and loving it he has alot of potential to be a great worker on the farm and is one of my favorites. We then have two dogs we use for sheep herding. First theres my 7 year old brown male Australian Kelpie named Vox. Vox like Ember is more of my husbands dog then mine and really is'nt into listening to me as much as him but other then that he's a good dog.And then theres my 5 year old Blue female Australian Kelpie named Signal she's my favorite out of the whole bunch and I love her to death. Finally theres our little lap dog alittle 2 year old female cream longhaired Chi named Sassy and was a valentines gift from my husband years ago. So i just thought i would introduce myself and say hi .

 

Hi and welcome! There's alot of nice and informative folks here!

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Welcome to the forum!

 

hi, and welcome too

 

Welcome!

 

Hi, welcome! you have alot going on!! How do find time for anything!! but while you do have some time you should send us some pictures!! I don't even know what a dutch cattle dog is!!! We love pictures here! I hohpe you find us useful!

 

Heres a couple of Ember




Ginger


Ginger and Ember playing in their early days

 

they are beautiful!!!

 

thanks heres a recent one of Slicker

And heres one of old Vox

 

Wow! They are very beautiful!

 

GREAT to have another Rare mastiff owner here!!! And working to boot! I have Three Boerboels and Two pits at home... No ranch to work on yet...but horses and so we're working on the livestock avenue with the dogs... LOVE the pics of your guys...

Were'd you get the CC's? Just curious!!!

 

Hey sara I have been meaning to ask you something, the other day on Dog whisperer there was a lady with like 1000 mastiffs (really like 5-10??) but she had one that was like the color of a weimerreiner (sp?) I was wondering what type that is? Do you know? not a problem if you don't just wondering?

 

LOL... Likely it's a Cane Corso... If it was like a big Bloodhound with lots of skin it could have been a Neopolitan Mastiff... But either Cane Corso or a Presa Canario... Were the ears cut?

 

Im assuming by CCs your meaning Cane Corsos? Ember is an import from Sicily. My husband always wanted a Cane and figured them to be great cattle dogs. Ginger we bought from a man in California and bred for the same aspects we were looking for.

Here's some more pics of the Kelpies
Heres a Pic of Signal

Signal Working

Working some more

 

Yup I meant Cane Corso's with my CC... I'm a big fan of letter abbreviations...

 

lol ok I am too I was just having a slow moment

Heres Vox working (I have pics of the canes working just working my way through the pics and the kelpies are on top lol)

Vox in his early days playing with my inlaws dog Sugar

Vox at a year old

 

Waiting ever so patiently for Cane working pics...and permission to take for future need in proving working ability with the breed to whomever I run accrossed online that does not beleive they work... LOL... Ya never know.

 

lol im working on it Sara im getting to the end of the kelpies lol.

Years ago our vet told us we had two perfect dogs worth breeding and so we did. We kept one puppy and that was Chase. Chase died last year after being hit by a car a tribute to Chase.

Chase as a puppy



Chase grown up


Chase holding


Chase working


Chase working again


this was our first Kelpie Emma she was my husbands dog since before we were married and was Vox's mom.

Emma again in her older years working


Heres a pic of Ember Herding sheep in the far back pasture (hence the trees) i have more but i have to get off here and will post more later.

You can't really tell but this is Ginger holding

Pretty Ginger


Ginger's Puppy Pic from the guy who sold her to me from Cali

 

cattledog-your dogs all have such a beautiful sheen what do you feed them?
sara- I think it had full size ears, but something else odd (I thought) about this dog is that its front legs are considerably shorter than the back ones, it looked weird, this lady did a rescue thing so maybe the dogs weren't full mastiffs

 

"cattledog-your dogs all have such a beautiful sheen what do you feed them? "

Lil, you read my mind, I was thinking the same thing and was aoub to ask when I saw your post.

Katie, I didnt even know what a kelpie was into a few weeks ago. I was on petfinder and a rescue place had a lot of dogs that said were kelpie cross, so I had to look up what one was.

thanks for posting the action pics.

honeybear