Bikini
Miniature Australian Shepherds
About Us . . .
I have been owned by full sized Australian Shepherds for nearly 20 years.
I enjoy training my dogs in conformation, obedience, agility & herding and
also enjoy just hanging out with them at home. It's a breed that is in my
blood and is part of my soul.
We produced our first litter in 1993. From that cross we had several littermates
become AKC champions at a year of age ( & under ) with very limited showing
( a few weekends or less ). Two of them also followed with ASCA Championships.
One become the first AKC Best In Show female Aussie ( CH. "Delta" ).
Our 1994 litter by our CH. "Indy" and out of a female we purchased ( CH. "Marcie" ), gave us several more Champions. We bred one of these females (CH. "Piper" ) &
kept a super little black tri female from this cross.
This little female ( Tess ) had her first litter in Oct. 2006. We bred her to a very
small, but nice mini-sized Aussie, in hopes of getting a smaller version of our big
Aussies. In the past we had 18 inch females out of Tess's lines, so we were
hoping for a pup around 16 inches ~ A PERPETUAL AUSSIE PUPPY of sorts.
Our new pup was suppose to be " just a small house buddy ". A little Aussie that was lighter and easier on my back, neck & shoulders during bathing & grooming time. But I wanted a nice mini & from lines that I was familiar with. So breeding my Tess to get a mini sized Aussie, seemed like the right thing to do. Little did
I know that my Miniatures would become as dear to me as my full-sized Aussies. But because both sizes share the same traits, loving them equally was inevitable !
After "growing them out" for almost a year and going back & forth with the two
little females ( who are a bit too small for me ), I decided that breeding for the
smaller size was the objective to begin with. So now I have not one, but two
PERPETUAL PUPPY-SIZED AUSSIES that may eventually contribute to my Mini
Aussie breeding program. They are nice little girls & hopefully will be worthy
of continuing with offspring of their own someday.
The only male from that litter of 4 pups, is a little bit bigger than the miniature standard, but he is a nice boy and I have a lot of fun training him.
Although our miniature Aussies originate from it's larger cousin, they are registered as Miniature Australian Shepherds and are sold & shown as such.
I also named them with a pre-fix that is much different than my full-sized Aussies.
We thought the little line ( bikini sized ) needed their very own recognition.
Something quite distinguishable from our full-sized Aussies, to avoid confusion.
And with the Mini Aussie Controversy being what it is, I thought it would be best
for my breeding program.
~ t
