Hi,

There are some photos of Tage with cattle. Tage is very intent with cattle without being too agressive. We started to train with four one year old calves and now we train with herd of bull, heifer and cows with their calves. Tage can´t survive by himself yet but Elmo and Tage make a perfect couple. So he can be with us in "real work". I´m surprised how easily he learns what I want him to do!

Satu

lovely pic's, looks like Tage is working all right for you how old is he now, and what breed is elmo i could not make that out in the pic's, it looks so nice and green over there the grass at my place is dead and brown we had a couple of bad frost and it killed it of.

Tage is one year old. I think we are on the same wavelenght with Tage. He doesn´t need hard commands. He thinks very much by himself and looks what Elmo is doing at work.
Elmo is nine years old working kelpie.

Tage seems to be a real koolie! We called him our little piranha... He hasn´t ruin anything if we were there but if we went to work with cattle without him - OH NO !!!! He seemed to be everywhere even on our radio! He can open doors with his teeth so he has broken our doorknobs... If we have to leave him inside our house alone we must lock the door and shut the another door with screwdriver! And hope he doesn´t jump through the window...

Satu

Thanks for the update on how our Australian Kooli cross kangaroo/crocodile dogs are going in the Northen Hemisphere! My dogs came off a cattle farm, so it's great to see European Koolies working those terrible cows! Tage seems to be going great-have you tried Tage in the bed with you yet on a cold night? Koolies are good at that too-ha ha.

Tage sounds like a real working dog. It is always good to work a young dog with an experienced older dog. Kelpies are my second favourite breed, especially the working lines. Sometimes Koolies are too smart for their own good and get up to unintended mischief or intended.

Hey Satu how's the hands.
Great photos.
Tages really shaping up well and doing his birth country proud.
Hope you have recorded his progress and your training methods for achieved such good results.
Many people with Koolies over here would love to read about your Koolie journey in our newsletter that goes all over Australia as well as internationaly.
Would love for you to write your story, you have done such a great job with Tage.
Look forward to hearing more.
Give him a hug from us.

hey Tjukurpa what newsletter? can i possibly get one when they go out?

The newsletter is for members of the Koolie Club of Australia so if you are a member you will be getting one in the mail soon.

They're going out this week, so keep a look out.

Oh um...am i a member? i dunno :/ i dont remember giving anyone my address *sigh* oh well

Did you fill out one for these application forms http://www.australian-koolies.info/documents.html and pay your membership fees??? If you have then you are a member, if not I really recommend joining. Well worth the church change each year!!!!

By the way, did you send me that nom form TJ?? Just I have not got it yet????

Bugger :( i dont have any spare cash, dont think i joined cause i didnt think raz was a full koolie and i have no papers :(

Maybe later in the year i can join

Sorry Rache on the way mate.

Shaunagh: I have made our bedroom dog-hair-free-area. ;) So I can´t use my dogs as heaters! ;)

Tjukurpa: I had difficulties in typing but now my hands are getting better. I milk by hands one of my cows ( the most of our cows are beefcattle) and it´s a little bit hard to my hands. My e-mails have been recently very short and full of mistakes. ;)


I gave your hug to Tage! ;) And yes, I will write something of Tage´s life to you.

He is looking great! :-) brains and beauty!

Looking forward to the club newsletter...
I am seriously contemplating making my bedroom a dog hair free zone too! shame I don't have any other room the dogs can sleep in...

Our dogs have own beds in the entry but they can go everywhere in our house except bedrooms. Our bedrooms is in upstairs and I don´t dare to imagine what happens if they were in upstairs and someone would come in... They might break their legs or something worse when they rush to downstairs! And they really RUSH! ;) I think they don´t even know what do slowly or carefully mean. They are peaceful only when they are sleeping.

Don't they look sweet in their beds!!!

We have baby gates put up to stop access to our upstairs and part of downstairs. This is partly so the cat has free access and when toilet training I didn't want a dog running all over our house! Paxy loves going upstairs though and you can generally find her bouncing on my bed when she escapes through the gates!

Hey Satu all sounds good.
I am very excited to read your Koolie journey so far, hoping you have methods we may use.
You can never know enough.
They look so content on their beds.
Thank you for the update and the photos, he is looking so strong and able on your cattle.
Glad to read your hands have improved.