Kaptivate Me Koolies

It has been a long held belief that working breed dogs do not make suitable suburban pets due to the lack of exercise and their drive to work stock.

You do not need lots of acres for your dog to run. This is an important point because even if supplied with hundreds of acres, unless you go with them, they'll just lie near the back door doing exactly the same as they would do in a city environment. In fact as I write this I have three Koolies (5yrs, 4 yrs and 2 yrs) lying quietly next to ...

By Sophia Yin, DVM, MS March 9, 2009

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Photo by M. Morris

"The client, an elderly couple, had a 6-year-old male, neutered Rhodesian Ridgeback that was aggressive to dogs" describes Dr. Jennie Jamtgaard, an applied animal behavior consultant and behavior instructor at Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine. "The...

*Wikipedia

The Koolie or Coolie (also known as the Australian Koolie or by the misnomer German Koolie[1]) is an Australian dog breed. The Koolie is a working or herding dog which has existed in Australia since the early 19th century when it was bred from imported British working dogs. Robert Kaleski, in an article on Cattle Dogs in the August 1903 issue of the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, describes the "Welsh heeler or merle, erroneously known as the German coll...