Our Dogs


  Bear

This year Alasdair will be competing with client dogs in the young classes and will judge the 2012 US National.

The 2011 National was exceptional. Alasdair and Eileen Stineman's Star captured Alasdair's 11th US Championship and Star's 3rd title. Alasdair ran Star and our Nap for the last time in 2011 as he retired Star and semi retired Nap at the conclusion of the competition.  Both outstanding trial dogs the ending could not be sweeter for these National Champions. Star is running the ranch and the house in Texas with Eileen and while Nap will always be ours, we have lent him to Christine Koval as a gesture of friendship. They are doing well together on the trial field and Nap has acclimated to sleeping on the bed!

We imported Nap in 2006. He is a handsome, 9 1/2 year old, bare skinned, prick eared dog we brought over from Scotland. Nap is a good outrunner with plenty of scope. He has good balance both around the course and at the pen and is first class shedder. Nap stands up well to aggressive sheep and is loaded with stamina. He is well made with a nice head and we feel that he is the complete package. Nap is off of M. Evan’s Chip and is the same way bred as Armstrong’s Moss (winner of the 2005 Irish Nursery Final).

Nap was Central District Nursery Champion in Scotland in 2004 with Andy Carnegie. He then suffered a traumatic knee injury shortly thereafter and endured multiple operations. While the operations were successful, they required absolute crate rest. Andy determined it was in Naps best interest to no longer work the hill and gave Alasdair the chance to buy him. We feel Nap has that 'something special' & we could not more thrilled that Alasdair won his 10th US National Championship with Nap, in 2009.

We bred my second open dog, Alba Cap. He is by Nick, a grandson of Alasdair's Nan and Ben and a litter mate to Alasdair's Bill. Cap is out of Nell, a nice bitch that we brought over from Ireland. Nell is also the mother of Andy Carnegie's 2007 Scottish National Champion, Lark and the mother of Jill, 2006 International Supreme Brace Champion as well as the 2007 Scottish National Brace Champion.
Cap has won many open trials & finished well in several double lift international shed competitions including the Bluegrass Classic, WWSDA Labor Day Trial and Free to Be. Cap is a pleasure to train, has very little eye, stands up well to difficult sheep, has excellent stamina and a strong shedder.  We have started breeding Cap and have some promising young dogs including my Nell, Cap X Stineman's Star.

Alba Cap


 Li & Nell at 15 months                                             
                                                                                                        
In fall 2010, Alasdair moved Li, last years nursery dog into Open. Li goes back to our Coon, a Karen Thomason's Quill. Coon was a gift to Alasdair from Karen and a very nice dog now owned by Steve Kunkel. We appreciate the opportunity from the Repke family to purchase Li. He is a very solid dog and Alasdair has yet to find a task he can not handle.

Alba Sweep is my nursery dog from last year. He finished a respectable 8th place at the Nursery Final in Carbondale. I moved Sweep to Open March 2012. Sweep is our breeding out of Cap's litter sister Lyn and by Don Russell's Sweep. He is line bred to Nan & Ben and is very much like the kind.
Sweep has natural scope on his outrun, good balance around the course and likes nothing better than a challenging ewe.

Alba Sweep and Jim

Jim was a gift to me from Alasdair in November 2010 as a 13 month old out of Scotland. We were again fortunate to have the opportunity to buy from Andy Carnegie and Jim has been nothing short of a joy to train. Very clever, Jim is a good outrunner, has an excellent ear, natural feel for his sheep and is a strong shedder.

Queen, a Star X Don is Alasdair's nursery dog for 2012.  She shows a lot of promise and is a beauty to watch.

Queen and Max

Bear and Max are my first dogs. Both are neutered as they were intended foremost as pets–it is unfortunate, because we would have liked to have bred them--The 2008 National was very special for me as I was 3rd with Max & 10th with Bear. Amazingly, though I had Bear and Max years before even meeting Alasdair, they are both his kind.

Bear is out of Jess, Nathan Mooneys Max X Nathan Mooneys June.
June is a Redpath’s Ben (McTeir's Ben) X Redpath's Nell (Henderson's Craig) that Alasdair actually bought as an 8 week old pup, trained to trial level and then sold to Tommy Wilson. 
Bear and Alasdair's Nan are similarly bred & both go back to Redpath's breed..(Pedigree for Nan)
Bear is a strong dog with presence, good stamina and tremendous drive and determination. He is the dog of choice for a tough day of chores or shifting difficult ewes and has taught me a great deal.
Bear suffered a broken bone in the knee that was mis-diagnosed and therefore, he was unable to participate in the 2006 & part of 2007 trial season. While it is uncertain to what degree his injury will limit his ability to work and trial, he will forever have the top spot in the house!

Max is by Vergil Holland’s Scot, a dog that Vergil purchased from Alasdair. Scot is a son of 'the Bomber', who Alasdair was 8th with at the Nursery Finals. Max is out of  a nice female, Dr. David Grinstead's Cedes.
Max’s grandfather on the sires side is Mirk, a litter brother to Alasdair's Nan. (Mirks grandfather is Alasdair's Scottish National Champion, Mirk).
Max's great grandfather on the dam's side is Alasdair's Elwy Glen (winner of 6 open trials in his first year out in Scotland and 4th at the International the year Alasdair won with Nan.)
Max is a good outrunner with plenty of scope, tremendous stamina and an excellent shedder. He has good balance, very athletic and while excitable, usually not hard to handle. Max required a toe amputation after the Nationals in 2009 and his trialing future was uncertain. Max will be 11 years old at the end of 2012 and while we have had numerous set backs due to the recovery, he continues to be competitive at trials and my closest working partner.

Look for updates on this page as we train our young dogs and have the opportunity to bring in new ones.   

                  
                                                
 


Special thanks to Christine Koval for the photographs


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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