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CH Wildblue Hail Damage "Haily"
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Wildblue Hail Damage Female Parents: Ch Kybota Wildblue Rhythm x Wildblue Wings of the Storm |
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Haily won her AKC conformation championship January 7, 2005. She is a black & white long coat, 17" tall and 30 pounds, born March 3, 2004, co-owned by Amanda Milburn & Alicia Ward. We are happy with the quality that Wildblue kennels is producing and it certainly shows with our girl Haily. We are very grateful to Deanne Veselka for allowing us to have this gorgeous girl. Haily has put an end to our prior belief that Australian line dogs were 'dead-heads'. We're looking for ways to tone down this girl's drive. WOW, she's a nice dog.
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Bio about Haily, written by
co-owner Amanda:
Haily is a very loyal dog and
quite attentive to me, especially when I am working her.
She is very focused on me and ignores everything else. When
we are not working, however, she will visit with everyone
around, but will often come back to me to "check in." Haily
is somewhat sensitive to dominant, loud and large men, but is
not afraid of them, just cautious. She's not the least bit
skittish though in any situation. Haily has enough drive to
work for just about anything. She will work equally well for
food, toys, and praise. She rarely needs correction. Haily responds to
a minimal correction because she wants to please. Haily has a
very high pain tolerance, she could be kicked by a cow or
corrected with a chain training collar and not be bother her
in the least. Haily is self-confident and is not easily
flattened like many border collies can be.
Haily is a super social
dog, that is content in the company of other dogs and people.
She is miserable when she is alone. The only
exception is when she is outdoors. She loves to run and chase
passing planes and insects so she does not seem to notice that
she is alone. She can never be locked in a room away from the
family and our other dogs, she will cry and pace a hole in her
crate.
Haily has a lot of interest in
retrieving and in catching. She loves the Frisbee and has
learned to do nice outruns and can jump quite high for the
Frisbee. Because her joints were formative while still was
young we held off on Frisbee training until she was over 1
year old, but she took right to it naturally, she can really
catch some air! I started her on contact training for agility
when she was a small puppy and she can do a sliding stop onto
the downside contact and wait to be released. I haven't
started her officially in agility yet because we were focusing
on her conformation career.
Haily loves water and will swim
for hours!!! In fact, you have to make her take breaks so
that she doesn't exhaust herself. She has no fear of diving
in full force and we have worked with her taking running jumps
off of the diving board. Haily will even jump into the pool
with my friend's little girls and try to "rescue" them. She
swims up to them and gets them to grab onto her and she will
swim them to the steps. Sometimes I think she has herself
mistaken for a water rescue dog... she can dive under water to
retrieve toys that have fallen to the bottom of the pool.
We have not regularly trained
her on sheep yet, but, starting at 8 months old we saw she had
the natural ability to do a nice wide outrun, fetch the sheep
to us and would do some driving. We liked the talent she
showed right off the bat.
Amanda
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