GUIRMERE
WORKING BORDER COLLIES
(Gaelic translation: Guirmere
blue,
Guirmere moon)
Blue Moon's Guirmere Cree
Trouble
Ready....Set....Go....!
Blue
Moon Guirmere's Snazzy, Striker and Brynn
Welcome to Blue Moon Working Border Collies
Excelling in agility and herding!
Blue Moon's Bryte
Latest News!!!
Blue Moon's Stinger has
read
the news...
Have you??
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Split and Maria
earn their
IAD Title!
(International
Agility Dog)
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Meet Guirmere Mayday!
Owned by Alexandra Latta
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Chris Hill & Sting
win the Phoenix
Steeplechase!
Chris Hill and Blade
place second in the Phoenix Grand Prix!
10-07
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North American Challenge National -1st Place
North American Challenge Regional -1st Place
Jumpers Overall- 1st Place
in Intern Level/ Open
3rd place Jumpers on Friday
4th place Saturday in Jumpers
Jumpers Overall- 2nd Place
Strategic Time Gamble 1st Place
in Intern Level/ Open
1st place Jumpers Round 1
1st place Gamblers
2nd place Trigility (with Blade)
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Chris Hill's Blade
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Blue Moon's Trigger and Ann
Croft
attended the
European Open Agility
Championships
in Italy members of the
European
Open U.S. Agility Team
2007!
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Introducing....
Agility Champion
Guirmere Valstar Jet !!
Junko and Jet finished their
Championship
at the JKC FCI Int'l Agility
Trial
Japan, June 2 2007
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Renee and Della
win the Grand Prix !!!
Della also earns her ADCH!
S California May 2007
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Guirmere Brynn and Tom Weir!
Renee and Della win the
USDAASteeplechase
at the WVDS trial California!
They also earn their SACH and
SCH titles!
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Congratulations to Maria
and
AAC Split Second!
Split finished his Australian
Agility Championship
with a first place win in
snooker!
Gurimere Split Second and
Guirmere
Indy
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Congratulations to Spy for
finishing
5th place in the Steeplechase Finals,
and 7th place in the Grand
Prix
finals!
Well done to make the USDAA
finals of both events and in the ribbons!
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June
Australian National Kennel Club
2006 National Agility
Champions...
2006 ANKC National Novice
Agility
Champion
Blue Moon's Gurimere Split
Second
Maria and Split (Taryn x Duke) win the Novice
Agility Finals!
...and 3rd place Novice Jumpers Finals! Split
is not 2 years of age yet!
2006 ANKC National
Excellent
Jumpers Champion
Blue Moon's Guirmere Trim
Vickie and Trim (Bryte x Lad) win the
Excellent
Jumpers Finals!!
2006 ANKC National Open
Agility
Champion
Blue moon's Guirmere Nifty Lad
Sue and Nifty (Taryn x Lad) win Open Agility
Open Agility is open to all the dogs at the
trial and is the largest class at he trial !
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Twice in a Blue Moon happens!!
2004 USDAA World Cynosport Games Champions!!
"Spy is Wicked on the Trigger" DAM Team
Jim Basic with Blue Moon's ADCH Spy,
Ann Croft with Blue Moon's ADCH Trigger,
along with Nancy Guyes and ADCH Wicked...
bring home the Championship!
Blue Moon Dogs
Buddy
1993-2006
Past Litters
In Motion Kwyk
Owner's Thoughts
Information
Breeding Goals
Blue Moon's
Rrip , Trigger,
Stinger
and Rain
Deb Kelly
Blue Moon Farm
Jugiong, NSW Australia
Email Me @
Written by Roy Saunders, from the book
"Sheepdog Glory" 48 years ago:
The Border Collie Breed
The Border Collie is never seen at dogshows and unlike dogshows
he
is not to be judged by any physical characteristics. He need not
conform to a particular colour, shape or size, length of muzzle
or
height of shoulder. His coat may be fine long and glossy, harsh
and
curly, or very short and sleek; all that matters is his brain,
temperament, reactions to work and the consistency of his
performance behind sheep. If he has a cast, a wide gather, a strong
eye to single out a required sheep; if he moves freely, never barks,
never bites; if he is prepared to take orders, is affectionate
towards those he knows, regards his master as a sort of god and
the
sheep pastures as the equivalent of heaven, then and only then can
he be called a first class specimen of his breed.
No man-dictated fashions have governed the Border Collies bodily
proportions; his outline has been modelled by the bleak mountain
run
with its gullies, screes, stone walls, wind, rain snow and miles
of
heather, fern and rock. Centuries of running on wide hills have
evolved a small lightly built animal with a light well co-ordinated
frame and a stamina for work mentally and physical beyond anything
else on four legs.
Despite the apparent insistence on breeding for working qualities
alone, most Border Collies are in fact of a handsome appearance.
The
homozygous tendencies are very strong and although greys and tans
occasionally crop up, about ninety percent of these dogs are a
smartly proportioned black and white. If the dog is well-marked
in
black and white in the right places and is generally pleasant to
look at, it is of course so much the better, but a collie which
a
layman might find striking handsome would look ugly and ridiculous
to the shepherd if his head and tail were held high. The
dogs "intelligence quotient" is shown more clearly in the carriage
of his tail than by any other physical sigh, and it is perhaps a
pity that we cannot test a child's IQ so simple and with such a
degree of accuracy. In any case the plain mismarked miscoloured
sheepdog whose breeding is right can give a stylish performance
which is fascinating and beautiful and will easily surpass the
performance of the most splendid looking dog with less good breeding.
