All puppies bred by me will be Kennel Club registered, and in some cases also registered with the International Sheep Dog Society

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Actually, the heading should read, in this instance, unplanned litters 2008. A 5 second lapse in concentration by me allowed that hunky, handsome Wolf to seize the opportunity to pounce on Ellie and have his wicked way. This is a mating I had been seriously considering, but hadn't planned for it to happen quite so soon.

That said, these should be nice puppies. I anticipate that there will be black/white, black/white/tan and possibly sable/white puppies in this litter, which is Ellie's first. This is Wolf's second litter (his first was to my Belle and their babies can be seen here)

The puppies will be Normal by parentage for CEA, NCL & TNS. I'll still have their eyes tested (just to check if anything else is going on that we might need to know about) and hearing tested too.

It is fortunate that a new BAER hearing test facility has recently opened in the Derby area, so now those of us in the Midlands do not have to travel (literally) hundreds of miles to get our puppies tested.

 

I will be pleased to discuss any of the above and answer any questions you may have. Please send me an email giving me your name, address, phone number, something about yourself and family, working arrangements, children, whether you've had a Border Collie before and your understanding/experience of the breed, the kind of life you offer to a puppy, an outline of exactly what you're looking for and I'll be pleased to call you back - it will in all likelihood be after 6 pm in the week or anytime at a weekend - to discuss.

Enquiries that don't give the detail requested will be deleted immediately. Overseas enquiries welcomed.

You can view a sample copy of the contract by clicking on Puppy Sales Contract. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader v.5 or higher to access the pdf document.

It does not matter to me how far you may have travelled. The welfare of the puppies is paramount and if I am not completely certain about a potential new owner in any way, you will not be allowed to purchase one of the puppies.

I actively encourage potential new owners to visit before the babies are born and most certainly before the babies are ready to leave home.

Whenever I breed a litter, it is generally because I want to keep a puppy (or puppies) from that mating. You will understand and accept that I always have first choice of any of the puppies in any litter I breed.