Father and son:
Micke and Minos
(W. Master Mind)

Our priority is sound healthy dogs with high working capacity and instinct and with a construction and type that promotes the work they are  meant to do. We believe the home where the dog is placed is one important part of what the dog will accomplish, since the team work between a good dog and a good handler is important to reach results. But from our point of view that is just one part. A good handler with a dog that lacks abilities will be very limited. After owning, training and trialing working dogs for 30 years  our opinion is that the working capacity of the dog is founded through focused breeding. Then- in the next step - it will be up to the owner/ handler how far the team will reach. That was our opinion, based on experience, before we started our own breeding, and that is the opinion we in the future will strive to stay with. 

Since working capacity and health are our main priorities we choose not to include dogs in our breed program who we  thinks doesn't fulfill our demands in thoses areas. We base our opinions on working our own dogs,  careful selection of males and extended research about the dogs we use, their pedigrees and related dogs.  If possible we also try to get a personal opinion about dogs we plan to use for example with AI, even though they live in other countries. 

This cross was made based on Toxsy's proven capacity to work (once again- not livestock but our kind of working trials) and his great trainability, but also that the same traits are proven in other individuals in the litter he comes from. Also, Tam has shown capacity to work and pick up new things easily, she has a great interest for objects and grips easily anything we throw for her. She also has shown the kind of heart and brain which in our mind are important Aussie traits. Pups from Tams first litter in USA, and Toxsy's first litter,  aswell as pups from this litter have  started to show nice  results in varoius areas. 

With this combination we keept breeding towards our longtime goal; physicallly and mentally sound Aussies who reach our demands about working capacity based on the ASCA standard. If we were to follow what is usually done, we should now tell all about the fantastic traits we expect from these pups and alreday would have seen in them even though they are just youngsters. Since we prefer facts before fairy tales, we won't do that, but wait until we can take the pups through more objective tests and trials to be able to base our statements on real facts. So far we can see that they are openminded and easy to train aswell as eager to please. Seven has been tested on sheep at least twice and shown nice instinct and a pleasant behaviour around the stock. Several of the pups have been to shows with nice puppy- results, like BOB and BIS placements.

Now when the pups are getting closer to 12 month we can start to see some of the traits we were hoping for and they start to show their abilities.  But still they are just young and deserve planty of time to mature.