Hello! I'm new to this forum! Some of you may know me from other places, but i'm here cause i get sick of all the politics and i just want to discuss dogs! Here's a photo of my two dogs, Leroy Brown and Matilda (whos is the Koolie!)




Just Tilly




All 4, this includes my husbands dogs, Earl (the Kelpie) and Harry (the Kooliexxx rescue that we fostered but became an attachment!)

Greetings, wonderful looking dogs and welcome to the KCA forums

Hi Koolarks
Cross the other side have we. Just joking. How you doing. Gee Matilda has grown. Good to see ya.
cheers
Danni

to a wonderful forum. I like the look of Leroy Brown very regal looking dog there. Matilda looks like an angel. Yes I think we all have had our rescue failures, but I think they choose us because they know they will stay with us.

Good to see you Koolarks, great photos too. Keep them coming we just love piccies of puppies and the crew look a happy laid back lot!!! Enjoy yourself and feel free to join in.

You have a Harry Koolie!! Being a Socceroo fan I have thought that would be a great name. But my family think I'm an idiot.

Welcome,

Libby.

You are welcome to talk about dogs anytime here!!!!!

I just love the name leroy brown. the song bad bad leroy brown come into my head the second I read that!!! LOL my silly head!!!

All your dogs are stunning, even your kelpies. I know all about a foster dog that becomes an attachment (we have one here, Pheonix LOL)

I hope you enjoy your time here and please tell us more about your stunning doggie family!!!!!

Welcome too - from another newbie!!! Your dogs look great. Tilly has such a great smile on her face!! I too had to sing Leroy Brown, I just hope it doesn't stick in my head now!!

TOO LATE I am still here with it in my head!!!

I have to say that I just love Tilly, what a stunning dog!!! More pics please if you have them and some details

I am still here too! Much rather be here looking at dogs than looking at the cricket!!!

Thanks for all the big welcomes! And i LOVE these emoticon thingy's!

You are all in luck because i love taking photos and posting them, so you'll probably all get sick of looking at our lot in a short while!!
The only thing is that i find it very hard to take a photo, ride a horse and work a dog at the same time, so mostly i get snap happy when we are about the yard or having relaxo time at the river! I will try and get some working photos, i know everyone loves to see them!

Matilda is 16months old. She has a very traditional Koolie look being a blue merle with one blue eye. She has a medium to long coat, that i clip in the summer to help her working up here in the heat and Burrs! She has a great nature and works both sheep and cattle, as well as our indian runner ducks! She is so koolie through and through! She LOVES WATER like no dog i've ever met and loves to be up on things, like the top of her kennel or on our outdoor setting! She has a great configuration, and has had so ever since she was a pup. The photos below show her at about 16wks and 12months, just before i clipped her in October!





Leroy Brown, (yes, bad bad,,,but not so much now he is heading towards 4!)
He's a great dog! He is mostly kelpie x smooth collie, i'll post you a photo of his mother one day. He is that dog that everyone who works with dogs hopes to find, he is totally dedicated to me and knows what i want from him before i ask most of the time. He has the best nature and loves to sneak a cuddle, especially from youg visitors! Anyone who says that you can spoil a working dog with too much love needs to meet him! I think it only motivates him to do more for you! I don't think that he will ever make a trialing dog, but he is a great paddock dog and handy in the yards. But takes instruction better from on top of a horse so paddocks are his main thing.




(My 8yr old cousin riding her pony with Leroy to help yard a few cows!)

Earl and Harry are both desexed and will never work a day in their lives! Unless someone takes on ball farming! Then Earl will be in that. Earl is 10 and is a one man's dog and that man happens to be my husband! He has had his share of successes as a high jumper at local shows when he was younger. He is a clever dog and very good at agility, although Cam has never competed him, beyond high jump. Harry was the ugly rescue cooliexx that no one wanted, and Cam decided he was to be his. He has a beautiful, yet timid nature dispite his looks! We take him with Tilly and Leroy to obedience training and he is doing very well!





So there you go, that's us! For now anyway, and there's other (non canine) fury friends to introduce you to, but all in good time!

yes a Big :Welcome:and great to see you here, i just love your dogs i have seen Matilda before when she was a little pup she was very pretty then but now she is a lovely lady. could you tell us about Leroy Brown yes it's stuck in my head too lol i like that song. he is a handsome looking dog and Harry is a very nice looking Koolie as well, and i must say Earl looks just like an earl i think he was well named. do you do any kind of training with your guys it's great the way they sat for their pic. i wonder if my guys would sit still long enough, i know spice, Ellie, quin and summa would but not greyson yet, we are still trying to get to know each other. but any way welcome glad to see you hear.

Okay I know this is a Koolie forum but I think I have fallen in love with Leroy Brown. You have one beautiful boy there. More photos the better of all your furry gang. Even horse photos would be good. There is also a lot of horse lovers here too.

I love Matilda's face.

Koolarks
Relax and enjoy your stay what part of the country do you hail from.
Anywhere near Qld or Sydney.

There's a group us going on a road trip from Vic through Sydney to Qld, doing workshops for sheep dog training, Agility, DNA collecting, registering and general catching up and saying hi.

Maybe our convoy will come by your place to say hi and get pics, we all love pics.

Anyone interested in joining up with the group,? we commence with the first(here in Elmore of five workshops to be held through April.

We are looking at being away for ten days, it is going to an awsome trip.

Drop us PM if you want to know more.

Hey, welcome! What a great looking bunch of dogs you have. I love seeing pic's! Hope you have a great time here, I am new and I'm really enjoying it. Really nice and helpful people.

well i think kelpie x smooth collie is a good mix if you get dogs the look like that. maybe the cattle scare Earl and Harry thats why they don't work sheep could be the answer for them we have a great trainer up here that i have watched get non working dogs work on day one of training, maybe you could join us in April at Durong it's going to be a great weekend. i have two dogs that will only work sheep and they don't think cattle are any to herd. your harry looks very much like my greyson do you know anything about his breeding?

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Your dogs are lovely,I really like Harry!!he is not ugly.

I have a Matilda koolie too!she is the tri colour in my sig.

Thanks for the advice, but we really don't care if Earl and Harry don't work. My husband is a fitter and not into stock work, and they are his dogs. Your right though i'm sure we could get them doing some stuff, but i would have to train them and then they would probably get attached to me more then Cam and that wouldn't be really fair on him. Earl is 10 now and with all the jumping he did when he was younger i fear he may get arthritis if we push him too hard in his later years. He's been such a great dog to Cam it would be awful to see him start to suffer.

Harry, i found out once we moved to town, was once called "Bullet" he is a coolie x pigdog, a boy called "Noodle" (yes i know with a name like that no wonder he dumped such a great dog!) accidently let his pig dog bitch breed with his old mans working dog, (which is a coolie, but i don't know its lines) This sort of tragedy happens all too often around here i'm afraid. Anyway, when Harry was just a few months old "Noodle" (head!) decided he was going to be too small to make a pig dog so he gave him to a drover passing through to try himm as a cattle dog (at 4 months old!) and told him he didn't want him back. Well the drover didn't like him so he tied him to a fence and left him! Someone found him and he ended up in rescue. He was so timid and scared that the lady who rescued him thought he might do better fostered with us because we only had the 3 dogs and they are all so friendly. We took him on with the original intention to let him settle, desex him then rehome him. The first two things went to plan, but Cam having taken Harry on and getting him out of his shell and fuctioning "normally" was too attached to him and fearful of him losing his trust in people if we let him go. So Cam adopted him and he has never looked back. It has been a great decision and being just a few months younger than Tilly they have become great friends!


Honey, Leroys mum. Excellent Cattle worker. Too hard on sheep


The first night we got Harry


Cam's special project!




The end result: A happy family of four!

Ho the poor boy i am so glad that you kept him now he has a great life to live. i like honey she is a pretty girl and i can see were harry got his looks from lol his koolie blood just fine tuned it, it's a shame that you can't make it to the work shop i would have loved to meet you and your dogs

That is a great story. You can see just by the photo's what a turn around he has made. He had such a hard start to life but is making up for it now!!!

Great photos. Your Matilda reminds me a little of my old bitch Sparky. Harry Koolie sure landed on his paws the day he arrived at your home what a wonderful ending to a sad start in life. As for Leroy Brown, he is such a handsome looking dog, I too have a soft spot for Kelpies. It looks like Leroy Brown will be the song of the week.

Welcome Koolarks,

Great dogs you have there. Tilly looks a bit similar to my youngest dog. I have two koolies - both rescue dogs - and I love 'em.

Michael

Those are such great photos of such gorgeous dogs, all of them, what a sweetie harry is.

I loved the last photo of all the dogs together, they look all so happy. You should enlarge it and frame it to put on your wall at home. A good family photo.

I bet Harry was pleased that someone like you guys came along to take care of him. It is a wonderful transformation to see a shy timid dog become a happy confident one.