Our Queensland Heelers (stumpy's) x Cattle Dog pups

Damian with the little red we are keeping.

Three weeks ago our bitch 'Dog' (a blue stumpy) gave birth to her litter of 8.  The sire being Bluey (a red cattle dog).  At first they were all white.  Being my first attempt at breeding dogs I was suprised to learn that cattle dogs actually have dalmation in their lineage and that is why they are all born white.  Over the next few weeks they develop their spots and colour.

Our main goal was to breed a Red Stumpy and out of the 8 we scored  one.  We are keeping him for the cattle!  He is a little neurotic, growls, barks and screams when you go near him but he is getting over his fear of the world (see him with Damo).  Like everyone else I know, he is accepting that getting over one's fears is part of survival.  Did I mention he is Cute???

Out of the 8 our bitch gave birth to, only three were stumpy like her.  And only one was red.  The rest have tails.  But I won't hold that against them.  They are too sweet.

Alisha holding a little female pup Yes that is me in my PJ's.

The exciting part of this story comes when our neighbour comes over holding a day old, blind puppy and say's "I think your dog has visited my bitch".  His pure bred border collie gave birth to two pups not unlike our Bluey dog with only one surviving.

Ok, there are some similarities to ours and yes we took in the poor little thing and put it with our bitch.  Being the good mum she is, she did not hesitate to adopt it.  And unlike us human women did not hold a grudge.  Now she has 9 pups and our runt is suffering a little due to this usurper.  But we will make her feed it a little extra night and day to make up for their half sister.  Meanwhile I think Bluey needs to find some self control and stay on his own 500 acres! geez embarrassing!  Are there such a thing as dog condoms?

Anyways,  our little pups will go up for sale on Gumtree in the next few weeks  as working cattle dogs x Queensland heelers (stumpy tailed cattle dogs).  They are beautiful little guys and gals and are waiting for new humans to work.  They will be good workers and loving companions like their parents.  We are proud of our first litter of working dogs.