Hi All
My name is Linda and I have a koolie pup called Ashwyn (Ash for short) he is the brother to Danni's Gabby who you have heard about and I think she has mentioned her brother along the way (the one who is the red cordial dog!!!) I have always owned Kelpies and this is my first Koolie, I just happened to go along with Danni to choose her little girl!! 17 pups came out to greet us and this one chose me and I just couldn't resist him. He has a terrific temperament and nature and I am training him in agility and obedience.

My computer is playing up at the moment so will post some photos of him and Gabby later.

Cheers
Linda & Ashwyn

Welcome Linda and Ashwyn!!!! Hope you have a good time on the forum. Everybody is very friendly and welcoming. I have learned lots since joining and it's fantastic to be able to talk about your dogs with people who understand your obssessions!!

Can't wait to see the pics!!!

Welcome to the forum and we look forward to your photos of course

Welcome I am very new here too, I can't wait to see a photo of you puppy.

Hi Linda & Ash big welcome from another South Ozzy, I've only been here a short time as well, can't wait to see pictures of ash . Didn't know there were so many Koolies in SA before I came on here.
Sue,JC & Izzi.

I am sure you will have a great time here!!!
Can't wait for those pictures!!!!

Welcome - can't wait to see the pics of Ashwyn and Gabby. We've heard such a lot about Gabby but we've never seen her ;-(
Love the name Ashwyn - is it from Old English or Sanskrit?

Welcome Linda and about time too LOL
Now people you will see the future champions of Gabby and Ash. She is the one that does all my computer things.LOL
cheers
Danni
Catch you on the weekend with that lovely weather we are having LOL

Hi everyone thankyou for your emails I am looking forward to joining in the chat with everyone. It might be a few days for the photos to be put up as my computer has gone on strike and I am using the library one so please be patient. Ashwyn is a Celtic or old english name and means "Star"!!!!!

Sue what part of SA are you from?

Danni you are going to have fun running on the weekend, at least you can go under the shade after I have the pleasure of stewarding all day(Help!!!!!! )

should mention that Danni is representing SA in the prestigious Advance team competition on the weekend with her other dog Inka, against teams from every state in Aust.


Cheers
Linda

Hi Linda
Yes I am glad that its going to be you stewarding in the heat but it has downgraded from 39 to 32 I think still too hot for me thoughLOL
Guess what the phone is still not working.
cheers
Danni

Im from Murray Bridge & we're coming to Adelaide on Saturday to pick up an Australian Shepherd pup, Pebbles, the owners are coming from Broken Hill for the big dog show at SACA park. Might see you & Danni around some time, , Izzi has only just graduated to grade one at dog school so it'll be a while. Take plenty of water on the weekend it's going to be a hottie. .

Having just had my first (and only, unfortunately) lecture on Old English, I can write it in runes!

to the forum. You will love it in here, cannot wait to hear more about Ashwyn and all of your adventures. Looking forward to the photos too!

Thankyou everyone for your warm welcomes I have posted some photos in the website & photos section . I was going to add a photo to this post but am not sure how to do it? any suggestions would be welcome so I will add it to the the other photo forum.

Ash is in class 2 of obedience he learns quickly but I have to still work on his focus for it. I have concentrated mostly on foundation work for his agility and he is doing very well in that. He will be in puppy class until he is 12 months old but is responding well to my voice and body. Cosidering he has the distraction of both his sister and brother in the same puppy class I am very pleased that he listens to me when he comes off lead!!!

He was desexed last week and boy has it been fun and games keeping him quiet at home needless to say guess who lost the battle?

Cheers
Linda

hi and a late welcome i must be turning into a queenslander lol been living here to long now and becomeing slower mmmm! or is that old age poking his nose around the conner lol well anyway a big welcome and i love his name can't wait to see pic's of your boy

Hi Linda & Ashwyn,

I am a newbie here too and look forward to chatting. Can't wait to see the pics of Ash.

I saved my pictures in photobucket then clicked the add picture button and added the url. They are a bit big so just need to make them smaller for next time.


Regards
Nikki

Hi Nikki
Great to hear from you and I took your advice and tried my hand with Photobucket so here is my first effort hopefully it will work??? This was taken last month, he loves running through, over and down all the obstacles at the Dog Park not far from us. He is about 7 months old in this photo
Cheers
Linda

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn164/l...sh28Jan08ka.jpg

Hi Linda
Gee that photo looks familiar. Just been on the SA Agility List.
He is so cute.
cheers
Danni

Welcome to the forum, I see you know a couple already, there are plenty more to get to know.
Enjoy yourself, love your photo, very nice lad.

Hi Linda,

He is just beautiful. Glad the piccy worked. If you copy the direct link in photobucket and copy and paste it into the url for the image icon above it puts the picture into your message. Took me ages to work out how everyone was getting their pics up but when I ran the cursor over the pictures it showed they were in photobucket. I used to have a heap of pictures in the old snapfish which photobucket took over but I can't remember my username and password so had to start all over again unfortunately.

I look forward to seeing more pics of Ash!!

Nikki

He looks lovely, very attentive and bright. Glad to see that you worked out how to post the pictures up (with a little advice). Welcome once again you will enjoy it here.

There was a person on Australian story last night called Ashwyn. First time I've heard of a (modern) (non-canine) person called that.

[quote]There was a person on Australian story last night called Ashwyn. First time I've heard of a (modern) (non-canine) person called that

Here was me thinking he was unique!!!!!! I missed Australian story so didn't see the "other Ashwyn"

Took my one down the beach and it was fun seeing his reaction to it wouldn't stop barking at the sea then being brave in going in and coming to tell me all about it, here are some pics of our fun time

My first time, where are you mum??????


There you are


Am an old hand at this now!!


Time for a break

Gabby and he are a really beautiful pair. But he must have the longest tongue (that is his tongue in the 2nd pic isn't it? - it's very long).

Something I notice with Wal is that he can't seem to resist drinking while he's swimming, even if it's in salt water.

This other Ashwyn is a member of a Christian sect who decided (several of their group have done it) to donate a kidney to someone he didn't even know. I'm sure your Ashwyn is saner by far.

Paxy drinks the salt water too!

Lovely pics of Ashwyn enjoying the water! They are so funny when they first go in!

Methinks it was the angle of the photo, it does look long, maybe I should try measuring it that would be a challenge!!!

He doesn't drink salt water but tends to swallow it when retrieving his ball, he is very ball orientated as other dogs (& kids) have found out when we are at the beach.