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Wehner Homestead
Herd Master
Our Aussie Story:
A friend was expecting a litter of Australian Shepherds Fall 2016. They weren’t registered or tested, just great family dogs. We had been wanting another farm dog and something we could trust with the kids, take to cattle shows, and basically go everywhere with us. We truly had no preference on color and knowing that black tris are harder to find homes for, we put in our order for a black tri male. They only had one in the litter and though they didn’t normally let people “reserve” them before six weeks because she insists on questioning people but since she knew us, we got to reserve our pick. We were beyond excited until she called two days later to tell us that his mama had laid on him and he didn’t make it. We were devastated. She offered us the pick of another pup but we had our hearts set on a black tri male at that point. We’d looked at so many pics of pups and adults that we knew what our hearts wanted. She did tell me that she knew of someone else that had a litter if I wanted to contact her. I did and it was a blessing!
I told Sue the story of our little Pup and how upset we were. I also told her about our family and what we wanted the Pup for and what it’s life would be like. She said she had the perfect pup for us. Sue said he wasn’t ready to go home yet but we could come meet him. She does mostly limited AKC registration with parents having complete testing so that full registration can be done if buyers wanted it.
Anyway, we fell in love with him at first site. He was perfect and exactly what we had in mind. His personality was amazing and he was great with the kids. We agreed that he would be coming home with us when he was old enough. DS named him Cowboy.
These 2 pics are from the first day we met him.
We went back to visit before he was ready to come home...
Finally, we could bring him home!
When we went to meet Cowboy the first time, Sue had another litter of unrelated pups that she was showing the kids. Come to find out, they were born on DD1 birthday, Oct 8, and DD1 already had her eye on a Pup. I don’t normally pick a Pup that young but she just stood out to us all and both parents were amazing. We decided to take her home too when she was old enough. DD1 named her Jewel.
This is the day we first saw her (she’s the blue Merle on top):
We also visited her once before we could bring either of them home:
Then we visited Jewel again when we went to bring Cowboy home. Jewel is several weeks longer so we had to wait to get her.
To be cont’d....
A friend was expecting a litter of Australian Shepherds Fall 2016. They weren’t registered or tested, just great family dogs. We had been wanting another farm dog and something we could trust with the kids, take to cattle shows, and basically go everywhere with us. We truly had no preference on color and knowing that black tris are harder to find homes for, we put in our order for a black tri male. They only had one in the litter and though they didn’t normally let people “reserve” them before six weeks because she insists on questioning people but since she knew us, we got to reserve our pick. We were beyond excited until she called two days later to tell us that his mama had laid on him and he didn’t make it. We were devastated. She offered us the pick of another pup but we had our hearts set on a black tri male at that point. We’d looked at so many pics of pups and adults that we knew what our hearts wanted. She did tell me that she knew of someone else that had a litter if I wanted to contact her. I did and it was a blessing!
I told Sue the story of our little Pup and how upset we were. I also told her about our family and what we wanted the Pup for and what it’s life would be like. She said she had the perfect pup for us. Sue said he wasn’t ready to go home yet but we could come meet him. She does mostly limited AKC registration with parents having complete testing so that full registration can be done if buyers wanted it.
Anyway, we fell in love with him at first site. He was perfect and exactly what we had in mind. His personality was amazing and he was great with the kids. We agreed that he would be coming home with us when he was old enough. DS named him Cowboy.
These 2 pics are from the first day we met him.
We went back to visit before he was ready to come home...
Finally, we could bring him home!
When we went to meet Cowboy the first time, Sue had another litter of unrelated pups that she was showing the kids. Come to find out, they were born on DD1 birthday, Oct 8, and DD1 already had her eye on a Pup. I don’t normally pick a Pup that young but she just stood out to us all and both parents were amazing. We decided to take her home too when she was old enough. DD1 named her Jewel.
This is the day we first saw her (she’s the blue Merle on top):
We also visited her once before we could bring either of them home:
Then we visited Jewel again when we went to bring Cowboy home. Jewel is several weeks longer so we had to wait to get her.
To be cont’d....
I was using the heating pad on my back and asked DH for a pic to show y’all. He thought u wanted to see it better so he took me a video. I took a screenshot for y’all to see. He tried right?? 
