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Our History & Accomplishments for
Hall of Fame Breeders
74 Ranch Mini Aussies and Mini Americans

This page shows our history of breeding and all the wonderful dogs we have in partner and pet homes and all their accomplishments! If you don't see your dog on here, please email us!


74 Ranch MASCA Hall of Fame Breeder - September 2017

74 Ranch Mini Aussies APPRECIATE their partner and performance homes! We want to thank Kristy Allison and 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Black Label for their Advanced Rally and championship titles; Jared Pritchard and Carrie Pritchard for 2 Herding titles with CH 74 Ranch Talk N Up A Storm; Karla N Scott Coffman for their championship with 74 Ranch Savannah Spice. Other dogs that helped us get our Hall of Fame include: MAJC 74 Ranch Union Jack - grand champion; 74 Ranch Tell N It Like It Is, grand champion; 74 Ranch Hanker N For A Wigglebutt, champion; 74 Ranch Shoot N For the Stars, Grand Champion; 74 Ranch Come N Dance with me, champion and 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo in Time for grand champion, open NADAC agility, Advanced Rally and several herding titles. We truly appreciate you all giving our dogs great homes and letting them show to their potential!!!

We also thank Rachel Hyer of Sagonige Mini Aussies as she handled my babies so beautifully in conformation! They LOVE her, she's so good to them! Betsy Hyer also handled a few (like Union Jack to his Grand) so we thank her too!
And we do NOT want to forget to thank Wigglebutt Aussies (Bill and Angie Ogle) for allowing us to use fun-loving, crazy Lucas :) , Ridgestar Aussies (Mona Cooper) for our gorgeous Jack, Heartland Kennel (Karen Oldfather) for Brooke, Boldheart/A Kings Castle for letting us use Doc and Sagonige Kennels for several AWESOME foundation dogs for our program to get to this point.
There were several high level agility titles our dogs got as Mini Americans but those, unfortunately, did not count towards this - that doesn't mean we don't appreciate all your hard work and keeping in touch with us on your dogs accomplishments, thank you!

Jan 2019 we decided to take some of our dogs to AKC - Miniature American Shepherds.  We love he AKC experience, so we took them all to AKC.  

74 Ranch started breeding Mini Aussies in 2005. Before that time we bred a few litters of border collies and border collie/Aussie crosses.  We had a rough start getting quality registered Mini Aussies in the beginning, but looking back what we did has highly contributed to our program. Our first few smaller dogs were toys.  While we loved the size we didn't love the issues that came with these particular dogs and wanted the larger size so we spayed and sold them all and started over.  We have 3 foundation lines, basically.  We have 1) HOF, HOFX Dam Heartland's Whispering Brooke and the line we kept from her.  2) CH Sagonige's Turn N Heads at 74 Ranch mHIC, CGC, SCT-I, CD-M, RO-N, A-I, NTD, V-2  and 3) GR CH Top 10 Ridgestar Bareback Jack at 74 Ranch CACIB UCI CH, UCI Ehren CH, SCT-I, mHIC, M-I, RO-N, V-2 . 
We purchased Brooke (1) from Nebraska.  She had 4 litters for us.  The second litter was sired by CH Wigglebutt Light Up My Life (Lucas) and had an AWESOME litter, our first TRULY awesome litter. We started showing Brooke and decided we liked it!  We kept HOF GR CH Top 10 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo In Time CGC, SCT-I, A-N, ND-M, RO-A, AS-N, NTD, DIS-I, SDA-I, OAC, HD-L2D, HD-L3S, F/R-L1S,  V-4+ (Echo) and CH 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Black Label CGC, mHIC, N-O, RO-A, V3 (Cooper) from that litter (who went to a wonderful partner home) and had 2 more pups we should have kept in our program :( Echo and Cooper have gone to get their championships and/or grand championships from MASCA, IABCA, etc. and both have lots of performance titles. Echo went on to become our Foundation Dam and was in MASCA's Top 10 conformation for 2 years and the #2 Top herding dog.  GR CH Top 10 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo In Time CGC, SCT-I, A-N, ND-M, RO-A, AS-N, NTD, DIS-I, SDA-I, OAC, HD-L2D, HD-L3S, F/R-L1S,  V-4+ From Brooke's last litter with CH Sagonige's Shoot N the Brees we placed CH 74 Ranch Everything's Just Ducky to Cindy Germain in Cheyenne.  She got his MASCA Championship then his AKC Championship as well as Therapy dog and agility titles. Echo got the herding titles that Brooke needed in her progeny to achieve MASCA Hall of Fame X Dam in 2016 along with the help of Cooper with Kristy Allison and Ducky with Cindy Germain in conformation.
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EnV - CH Sagonige's Turn N Heads at 74 Ranch was purchased at the same time as her full brother CH Sagonige's Shoot N The Brees at 74 Ranch CGC,mHIC, SCT-I, M-I, V1 (Drew-pictured left) in March 2010 from Hall of Fame Kennel, Sagonige Mini Aussies in South Dakota.  Drew was tragically killed in an accident while he was young but before that time he got his MASCA championship as well as his CGC,mHIC, SCT-I, M-I, V1!  He only sired the one litter for us with Brooke.  EnV was a joy to have.  She got her MASCA championship as well as many titles and produced several males we have in our program - 74 Ranch HeadN To Vegas and GR CH 74 Ranch Shoot N for the Stars (who went on to be in the MASCA Top 10) as well as several grandbabies! 

GR CH Top 10 Ridgestar Bareback Jack at 74 Ranch CACIB UCI CH, UCI Ehren CH, SCT-I, mHIC, M-I, RO-N, V-2 was purchased from Mona Cooper in Washington as a pup. We fell in love with him when he saw him in a picture (something we don't usually allow ourselves to do). As soon as I got him home we did a personality test and he was everything we were told he was.  He went on to get his Grand Championship at a young age and became part of the MASCA Top 10 Conformation Dogs. He also got several performance titles while living with Vivian Beard, our partner home, in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Since, he was placed with Laurie and John in Wellington and he's retired from the show/performance rings to live on a dairy farm.  We have some awesome babies of his in our program including 74 Ranch HeadN To Vegas and MASCA GR CH #2 AKC CH 74 Ranch Tell N It Like It Is RO-O, CGC, mHIC, V-2 and her brother Crooz who is owned by Randy and Shelly Evans in Sundance, Wyoming, all shown below. We also now co-own a daughter of his, ASA CH Quail Ridge Malibu Babe RO-I seen on our female page.
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We bred Echo to CH Boldheart A King's Castle I'm Your Huckleberry mhic and produced Meaka and Chatter - CH 74 Ranch Talk N Up A Storm CGC, RO-N, I-M, HCTg, HD-L2D, HD-L2S, mHIC, JHD, V-3+ .  Meaka went on to produce Candor in her first and only litter and Chatter produced GR CH #1 MAJC 74 Ranch Union Jack and 74 Ranch Majc Springtime Snowstorm NA NAJ (Spring) (both seen further below)

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Other dogs we added to our programs or produced:  We achieved great structure and success in the show ring and decided we needed to work a bit more on personality so we added CH RKC's Sagonige's Go N Full Throttle (left) to our program.  Indy is 16 1/2" so he was on the smaller side and had a SUPER outgoing personality, easy going.  He produced it too.  His offspring that we have added to our program include: CH 74 Ranch Savannah Spice and 74 Ranch It's Bristol Baby. Everyone in the family loved Indy so much he stayed here and lived in our kids home.

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We purchased Grand Champion Top 10 Sagonige's Lucy in the Sky at Hot House mHIC, SCT-I,  RO-N, I-M, CGC, V-2  and had a super nice litter out of her then placed her in a partner home, MAJC Aussies, in Cheyenne.  Lucy continues to win in the show ring and was in MASCA's Top 10 Conformation several years.

We ended up purchasing two pups sired by GR CH Top 10 74 Ranch Shoot N For the Stars out of Gr CH Top 10 Sagonige's Gigage Ada in May 2015.  I personality tested that litter and it was a fabulous litter.  MASCA CH Top 10 Sagonige's King Cowboy at 74 Ranch and ICE Top 10 MASCA CH Sagonige's Amber Brandy at 74 Ranch who is going to be in her first show in December 2016. Both are pictured below and their mom is the picture on the right below and live in partner homes - Roy with Petersons in Torrington WY and Brandy with Taylors in Ault CO. We also kept a red merle male in our co-own program, 74 Ranch Private Nvestigator in 2019 sired by Sling Shot out of MASCA CH Sagonige's SingN Jazz at 74 Ranch. He lives in Casper with the Spiva family.

In September 2017 74 Ranch Mini Aussies became MASCA HALL OF FAME BREEDER/KENNEL!  We have met almost all of our goals from when we started this adventure more than 10 years ago so plan to slow our traveling down - less shows and trials.

What is in the future of 74 Ranch?  We are only keeping the 'full package' dogs in our program for future breedings and we are wanting to slow down to spend more time with family which means we will keep very FEW dogs in the future. Most of these dogs are placed in partner/guardian homes so we can stay small.  We are working on a few more Hall of Fame sires and dams.  We will also continue to learn and improve in the way we raise our puppies!  Please let us know if you would like to get involved in our journey by becoming a partner with us.
We kept a few pups from our program that have just gone on to do fabulous things!  THE NEXT GENERATION:  MAJC 74 Ranch Union Jack became a Grand Champion and the #1 MASCA dog in 2017.  He's got a SUPER personality, great size, bone, looks, he's the 'full package'... He lives with partners, David and Ellen Otto in Hawk Springs, WY.  74 Ranch Tell N It Like It Is (very related to Union Jack) got her Open Rally title and Grand championship and was awarded the #1 FEMALE in MASCA 2017. Both of them win a lot of Head Type classes and Candor won several brace classes with her grandma Echo.   We are excited about what our future holds out for us with these two.
In January 2018 we decided we did all we could in the world of MASCA (Mini Aussies) so we took Candor AKC Miniature American.  We loved it so much we took more, now we are about half and half (Nov 2019) and are showing all summer with AKC conformation.  We plan to start performance events in 2020.  Our first Mini American purchase is GCH Kadels-N-MJ's Blue Ain't Your Color (Urban) the red merle shown below.  He will be used on a few co-own females such as GCH Quail Ridge Malibu Babe (the black tri shown below) that we co-own with Jerry and Theresa Leroy. Urban lives with our partner family, my dad in Fort Collins CO. 
We had a co-own litter in Idaho and ended up keeping Buckles here at the ranch.  She is tiny, 14 1/4".  She got her AKC Championship, BCAT title (fastcat), CGC (Canine Good Citizen) and TKN (Trick Dog Novice)  so now her name is CH 74 Ranch Taste N Victory CGC TKN BCAT.  We hope to keep something back from her in the future.  We also kept 2 brothers of hers in our program, Wink and Peri (shown below)
Candor and Lexus were spayed in 2021 and placed in pet homes. But we have 2 daughters of Candor sired by Union Jack that will be our new 'foundation'.  Rumor (GCH 74 Ranch Tell N Stories BCAT) and Ember (74 Ranch Watch N Her Glow) will start having their own progency soon. Both pictured below.  Ember now lives with a Junior handler, in a partner family in Utah.

Other successful dogs placed in companion and partner homes!
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Grace is a therapy dog living with Keith and Wendy in Tennessee!  She's a daughter of Indy and Callie (Cooper X Hanna).

"Grace is doing so well.  She is such a joy to have around.  Everyone loves her and she is so expressive and bright.   I’ll get you pictures of her in her work clothes for her “service dog” poster!!!  She is a gem!!

Love

Wendy, Tennessee
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​MACH 74 Ranch Blue MXB MJS NAP NJP XF T2B2(Skylark)  is sired by Drew and EnV's full brother, Castor out of our last toy, Rafter Bottle Hanna Marie. At three years old, he had nine AKC Agility Titles and he is still going strong -now a MACH. He lives with and is loved by Vicki in Casper Wyoming. Skylark went on to win #1 NADAC jumpers and Touch N Go 2020, as well as #2 Regular and Tunnelers!


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Spring- 74 Ranch Majc Springtime Snowstorm NA NAJ OA OAJ  NF has turned out to be a beautiful girl.  #6 MASCA Conformation Dog 2017 - owned by Cindy Loftus of Colorado.  Spring is a full sibling of Union Jack and is beautiful!  Cindy has done a great job with her.  She ended up #6 in the year end conformation dog of MASCA 2017!  WOWMASC TOP SUPERDOG of the year 2017!  She has several performance titles too! Spring was placed in a partner family but never was bred.

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MASCA Ch, Top 10 74 Ranch Casanova at Quail Run RO-I (right) is sired by our GR CH Ridgestar Bareback Jack at 74 Ranch out of CH Sagonige's Turn N Heads at 74 Ranch with limited showing.  He also achieved the MASCA #4 Top 10 in 2017 and ASA #8 Top 15 in 2018, all with limited showing. He won Best of Breed at ASA 2019 Nationals as well as Brace with his 1/2 brother Quail Ridge All Revved Up (left).
ASA CH Quail Ridge All Revved Up RO-I (below left)  is also sired by GR CH Jack but out of 74 Ranch Suzette (CH Indy X GR CH Echo) won Best of Opposite and Winner's Dog at his first 2 shows) as well as his intro Rally title. He won Best of Breed in October 2019 at an IABCA show, trading off with his full sister, our new co-own female, AKC GCH and ASA CH Quail Ridge Malibu Babe (above left).

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Sling Shot # 5 MASCA Mini Aussie 2015 and # 3 in 2017- GR CH Top 10 74 Ranch Shoot N For the Stars CGC, RO-N, I-M, V-2  Sling Shot is a beautiful son of our little Champion EnV, sired by an awesome MASCA Champion, Lookout I'm Naughty All Night! He lived with a partner family in Yoder, WY but then moved to Iowa with Jeff and Jessica Peak of Crystal Hill Mini Aussies to help them start their breeding program. He loves people and is very playful and smart!  He has his MASCA championship and several titles in performance events as well as his CGC and V2. He got his Grand Championship being handled by Rachel Hyer of Sagonige Kennels in SD and was announced #5 MASCA Conformation Dog 2015 then #3 in 2017. LIke our other males he loves everyone. Sling is a happy, fun-loving boy and a joy to be around!

Sway - MASCA CH, ASA Top 10 74 Ranch Come N Dance With Me RO-N is a Son of Jack Jr (74 Ranch Head N To Vegas) out of our GR CH 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo in Time.  Sway lived with us until he was about 2 years old.  He was retired from the show ring and sent to a pet home where he spends half his time in Arizona and half in Montana.  He got his Championship easily and a Rally novice title before he left. In his short show career he ended up getting #8 out of the ASA Top 10 Conformation Program.
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CH 74 Ranch Hanker N for a Wigglebutt - We bred a standard female we had 74 Ranch Dejablue to Wigglebutt Eddie and got Hank. Talk about great looks and personality.  He got his MASCA championship in one day at 6 months old.  Hank lived in a partner family locally who has had several of our dogs. He was killed in an accident and never had a litter.  Was owned by Scott in Wyoming


Sasha Ann's Starlight AX AXJ FCAT2 ACT2 SWA SCE SIE SHDN THDA
Sasha has done fabulously for Dianne in Fast Cat and agility.  She's just 3 years old, sired by Dexter out of Chatter.  In November 2018 she is ranked #7 for Fast Cat!  Somehow we missed 74 Ranch being in front of her name but when you see Sasha Ann's Starlight - it's her!  At Sasha’s first AKC Scent trial. Containers, interior and buried. Saturday 4th over all. Sunday 1st containers (4 seconds), 1st containers (7 sec), 3rd in interior finishing FIRST over all or HIGH IN TRIAL.
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CH 74 Ranch Talk N Up A Storm CGC, RO-N, I-M, HCTg, HD-L2D, HD-L2S, mHIC, JHD, V-3+ (Boldheart's I'm Your Huckleberry X Gr Ch 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo in Time) got her championship young and is now herding and doing performance events.  She has titles in herding, rally, obedience and several HotDawg, Wowdog awards with WOWMASC. She ended up in the 2016 and 2017 MASCA Top Herding Dogs (#3)  She also got Brood Bitch and helped 74 Ranch Mini Aussies win Generations and Breeder's Showcase in Oct 2016 as well as passing her CGC test. She lives with partner family, MAJC Aussies in Cheyenne.  We kept a few SUPER nice pups out of Chatter sired by Jack Jr.


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PACH9 Loyal To Kyle RN MXP23 MXPG3 MJP24 MJPG3 PAX9 OFP

Kyle Miles with her Lucy X Sling Shot daughter, Loyal, rocked their first Rally trial with a first place!  She got her AKC Novice Fast title by 19 months old. Loyal has a successful career in several performance events, especially Agility. She got her Master agility title around 2 years old. In November 2018 she is ranked the #1 Agility Dog Preferred for All-American Dogs.

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Cinder is a beautiful pup sired by Howdy out of Ella.  She resides with our partner, Hilary in California.   Cinder got her championship in Dec 2021. In the first picture shown she got Winner's Bitch and an AWARD OF MERIT from Judge Pat Hastings, Dixon CA 10/30/21.  The next day she went on to get Best of Winners for 2 Five point majors.  She has her POA, CGC, TKN and BCAT.   She had one litter and since been retired.
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Owned by Laury Sisk of Colorado - Dakota, a pup from past lines - Tut X Riola- has done super in Agility.  Her accomplishments include:  AKC Nov/Open Standard and Jumpers tites; AKC Excellent Regular title and DOCNA Beginner Trigility Trial.
74 Ranch Shoot N For The Cash OA OAJ NF (Cash) is also owned by Laurie Sisk!

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#1 MASCA Conformation Dog 2017 - GR CH #1 MAJC 74 Ranch Union Jack RO-I, mHIC, V-1, partnered with David and Ellen Otto, Wyoming, got his MASCA Championship at 10 months old and was #8 in MASCA's Top 10 Conformation Dogs that year.  In 2017 he went on to WIN the #1 dog - in only 3 months of showing. He also won the 2017 MASCA Nationals Best of Breed  He looks fabulous! He is sired by 74 Ranch HeadN To Vegas out of CH 74 Ranch Talk N Up A Storm (Jack Jr X Chatter).  The judges made comments such as "when this dog is an adult he will be unbeatable", "excellent example of the breed", "great head and topline", etc.  He is a male we will be using in our future program! 


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CH Quail Ridge N 74 Ranch Cruzin In Blu NAJ SCN.  JoJo is a son of Urban out of Malibu (co-owned by us - sired by Ridgestar Bareback Jack out of 74 Ranch Suzette of Quail Run.  He got his championship young and even got to go to Westminster in 2022!  Watch for more titles out of this boy!

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Cooper- CH 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Black Label CGC, mHIC, N-O, RO-A, V3 is a full brother of our GR CH Echo. Cooper starting winning right off the bat - with 4 best puppy in show out of 5 shows at 8 weeks old. He went on to win several Best of Opposite Sex Puppy, Winner's Dogs, Best of Winners, Best of Opposites, and 1st in an Obedience trial. He is a MASCA Champion and IABCA Champion. He produced the winner of the Most Versatile Aussie and 2nd place Extreme Aussie Games in the 2015 MASCA Nationals, Sagonige's Colorado Wild Child (the mom is a full sister of our EnV). Nora also was the #4 MASCA Herding Dog 2015 and earned a V-2 award.
Cooper got his CGC and Novice Obedience Title and High In Trial then titled in Advanced Rally. He passed his herding instinct test and got a MASCA V3 award.  Then he got the #1 WOWMASC Performance Dog in 2017 with his owner and our partner Kristy Allison. His advanced Rally title is what finished our Hall of Fame Breeder!
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Savvy - CH 74 Ranch Savannah Spice CGC, RO-A, V-1 is sired by CH RKC's Sagonige's GoN Full Throttle  (Indy) and out of our Gr CH 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Echo In Time  Savvy is a beautiful, fun little (small) girl doing great in the performance world and a MASCA and IABCA Champion. She has super high frisbee drive like her mom! She loves the show ring and has a super personality! She won the 2016 WOWMASC SuperDog award, HotDawg and WOWDOG awards! She achieved her novice disc dog title and Advanced Rally titles in early 2019-  good job Karla and Savvy! She resides in Wyoming with her human parents, our partners, Scott and Karla.


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CH 74 Ranch Everythings Just Ducky CD RN NAJ THD CGCA TKI  - Ducky was sold as a performance prospect but he went on and got his MASCA Championship then Cindy took him AKC Miniature American and he got his AKC Championship.  He also is a Therapy Dog and has several other AKC titles! Ducky was 2nd in MASCUSA for Novice Obedience in 2020!
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CPE: CATCH; UKC: BA, IA, E3K; 74 Ranch Wigglebutt Shiny Object WestView AKC: TKA, RA, CGC, BN, XA, MXJ, XF / CPE: C-SWE/ NADAC: O-EAC, O-ECC, Silver-Ach-Chance, O-EJC, S-TG-N, S-TG-O, TN-E, O-WV-E, O-GR-O, 0-NGC NADAC AWARDS: 2020 Novice Versatility Award, 1,000 Lifetime Points Award, 2020 Novice All Around Award, 2020 Novice Superior Versatility Award, 2020 Novice Triple Superior Award, 2021 Open Versatility Award, 2022 Elite Versatility Award

Dazzle is loved by Lori Genaw in MI. He's has 69 titles thus far!  Sired by Wigglebutt Outta the Park X 74 Ranch Tell N It Like It Is


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74 Ranch N Pr Mountain Monte CGC TKN is a beautiful boy sired by our Urban out of CH Quail Ridge Malibu Babe. He lives in the beautiful mountains of Colorado and enjoys them regularly. 

74 Ranch Pursue N Perfection CGC TKN RN BCAT
We kept Lexus here after losing Echo in 2018.  She got her Puppy of Achievement then got 3 adult points but went oversize so we reitred her from conformation.  She went on to get CGC and TKN in 2021 and her Rally novice RN and fastcat BCAT titles in 2022.  She now lives with her brother in Colorado and will likely do nosework events!  We miss her terribly.

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74 Ranch A Twist Of Fate CGCA TKN - "Kismet" is a beautiful girl - Rumor and Emmy's sister.  She loves to do nosework!  She has 9 points towards her championship, including a 5 point major so will finish soon!  Watch for great things from her in the future!
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74 Ranch Braveheart Ready to Fly - "Wren" is a beautiful Buckles X Union Jack daughter living in Indiana. She's going to be a great agility girl!!! She's already the demo dog of her puppy class at 4 months old, she's so far ahead of the others.  Watch for great things from her in the future!

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74 Ranch
Tom and Michele Herbst
Torrington, Wyoming 82240
Horses & Cattle:  307-534-6579
      Hall of Fame -Dogs and puppies:  307-534-5475
Email: 74ranch@gmail.com