(previously Misty Mountain Aussies)
Pincie Creek Mountain Man
Pincie Creek Mountain Man
Where we've
been and where we are...
We are farmers.
We do not have a big ranch with thousands of cattle, but we are farmers
none the less. As such, we need dogs that can help us with farming.
Certain breeds of dogs are better at this task than others. Border
collies make good working dogs. Chows do not. This is because
certain dogs have been selectively bred for certain tasks over the years.
We therefore owned Australian shepherds to help work the livestock and
Great Pyrenees to guard the livestock.
The first Australian shepherds our family owned were amazing work dogs
because they had been bred for generations by ranchers and cowboys
to be so. Eventually our original dogs grew old and passed away.
However, since the time we first obtained our first aussies, a change or
rather a split had occurred in the breed. A significant portion of
the Australian shepherds have been bred for conformation with little emphasis
on preserving the working instinct. We purchased more than one of
these dogs. They were smart, loyal, and all-around wonderful dogs.
Unfortunately, they did not have the instinct to help in the farm work.
And it was becoming increasing clear that Rose Marie and Lou were not getting younger and they really needed help on the farm. They needed another aussie that could get the cows and goats up for them and keep the bull away at feeding time. Early in 2000, we performed an extensive search for aussies that still had the herding instinct. In the end, we purchased two puppies from Pincie
Creek in Alabama: Monty and Gypsy Rose. Monty especially contributed a great deal to the dogs we currently own. We have continued to focus on working lines and have retained females from our litters that best match our goals and bred them to carefully selected males that will hopefully continue to improve our lines.
Pincie Creek Gypsy Rose
Fall 2009 Litter
All the puppies from our fall litter between Callie and Char have found their permanent homes. We had a great time meeting everyone who fell in love with our puppies, and we hope that our little ones live up to your expectations.
We are planning on a spring (Marchish) litter between Lil' Miss (Mischief's daughter) and Joe. If you would be interested in this or another cross, please give us a ring or email. We would be very happy to put you on our waiting list. We strongly urge you to contact us if you are seriously interested in a specific color/sex so you don't lose out if you truly have your heart set on something specific. And again we love to talk working dogs so don't hesitate to call just to chat or ask us some questions. Even better, you can just drop in to see us, particular if you have your dogs with you. We might even have a store open someday soon and we can share a hot bowl of soup. Warmest wishes to everyone for the holidays.
We changed our name up a little. I hope this doesn't confuse anyone out there, but we just thought everyone should know. "Mtn Mist" has now been registered with ASCA and will appear on our papers from here on out. We were a little too slow to get our "Misty Mtn" registered when we changed all of our registration papers from being owned by dad to me (Angela) after he got cancer. And we liked the "Mtn Mist" just as well. We just thought we should mention our new name for the people who occasionally check up on us through this website.
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Angela’s email: walkeranma@gmail.com