Brown Dog / Brownie

My first Kelpie pup 'Brown Dog/Browine' is a red or red cloud Kelpie. She is a gorgeous red Kelpie with huge paws (for a smaller dog) with touches of white on them and a white chest. She has the Kelpie trait of pointy ears. She is a small/medium sized dog - perfect for riding on a bike! She was from a large litter of pups from my Grand Fathers dog 'Lizzy' (more on this dog later). Brownie was the only red pup from the litter, all others were black. I have since read that there is always one red pup in a Kelpie litter - unsure if this is true or not?! Until she was approximately 2 years old she would not work when men were present. Which meant none of the 'blokes' would believe me she was an extremely intelligent and hard working dog....

She is what I call a 'Natural Instinct' dog, sheep work seems to just be in her blood - very easy to train! She is an excellent paddock/drovers dog that will go all day. I have read that the original Kelpies were often used to push sheep thru gorges and to keep sheep together in a mob close to their owner. This is Browine all over. I would be lost without her in the very hilly paddocks where I struggle or can not ride my bike. She will keep the mob together and moving along with simple or even no instructions (when I am am too far away from her). She is also great for getting break away sheep back to the mob.

She is also quite handy in the yard, however I need to really 'stir' her up or command her to 'speak up' (bark) or 'push 'em' to get her to be pushy as she has such a quiet nature. She has an extremely gentle, loyal and kind temprament.

She is now 10 years old. The older she got the more worried I got that she was never going to have pups and I was never going to have more dogs from this breeding. But she finally had her first litter of pups last year!! I was over the moon she had pups!!!! See more on the pups in the next blog....