New Litter of Pups

We have a new litter of Scotch Collie puppies. Head over to our new kennel website to see pictures - http://heritage.scotchcollie.org/2011/11/new-litter-whelped-10302011/10302011/

We have launched a new website to represent our kennel, Heritage Scotch Collies. You can see it at http://heritage.scotchcollie.org/

It is a work in progress but over time it will grow.

I delivered 3 puppies to their new owners this weekend. Every puppy is spoken for now and only Happy has not gone on to her new home yet. This litter sure drew a lot of attention, ranging from very positive blog posts to bitter people trying to put them down, about which a friend told me the following “If they can’t combat your ideas, they try to combat you personally, and that usually means that your ideas are better and/or the foundations of their side are more fantasy than reality”.

This may have been the first registered OTFS litter produced in years, another friend told me recently that he had inquired with the NKC about OTFS dogs registered recently and found that there just weren’t any! So in some ways this litter may prove to be seminal (no pun intended), keeping the OTFS (or the Allison line of Scotch Collies depending on how you look at it) alive for another generation. I have talked with quite a few people who owned one of these dogs bred by McDuffie or Strunk, they rave about how intelligent they are, in most cases their dogs have grown old and died without a suitable replacement. I have not, despite my searching, found one person outside of Chandler Strunk who has bred OTFS dogs in the past 10 years, plenty who have owned these dogs, but none who have or are continuing to breed them. These 8 dogs may actually be among the very last of the OTFS, that is why I sold them, not with oh-so-common spay/neuter contract but with a must-breed contract, the owners have all agreed to breed at least one litter with their dogs.

These pups have gone to a wide diversity of homes.

• Sneezy will be a cow dog in Missouri
• Sleepy will hang around a riding stable in New Jersey
• Bashful will be a competition hunting dog in Michigan
• Happy and Dopey will live on farms in Texas
• Snow White and Grumpy will stay here to help on our farm and someday be bred to Rainier
• Doc will stay here to be a stud dog.

The future of these fine dogs is uncertain, if you are concerned about their survival I encourage you to support the Old-Time Scotch Collie Association. If you are interested in acquiring a dog, you may write me directly andy at ilabmedia dot com, and sign up for the puppy list so you will be notified automatically when dogs become available, the signup page is at www.scotchcollie.org/breed/puppy-waiting-list

Where does the time go, Shasta’s litter is 5 weeks old today. Some new things are becoming obvious at this point that you will notice in the pictures below. It looks like some of these dogs will have blue eyes, Dopey’s left eye for sure and there are a few maybes too. Also Sleepy’s coat is really beautiful, it seems to be wavy. Three more weeks and they will start going to their homes, Sleepy is the only puppy not spoken for, give me a call or email if you are interested, there is certainly nothing wrong with him, in fact he has a lot of personality and is among the larger, more active pups in this litter.

The puppies are changing fast now so here are some new pictures before the 3 week pictures in 2 days.