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Our Working Kelpies:
Our passion.
Pups. Training stockdogs. Sale of trained dogs.
Demos
We are Catrinus Homan and Erika Visser
Our Working Kelpie Stud is called 'Shepherds'(ND).
We are members of and registered with the WKC, Working Kelpie Council of Australia.
Together with our 5 children, we live on our farm in the heart of the National Park 'Drents Friese Wold'. Catrinus is a second-generation shepherd and runs the sheep flock. Erika is also a qualified veterinary nurse and was a teacher in animal care for many years.
Together we raise and train the dogs.
In addition to the sheep flock and the group of Scottish Highland cattle we care for, we also have 150 Scottish Blackface ewes, crossbreds and Drenthe Heath sheep, 20 Dutch Land Goats and a number of geese for training purposes.
With almost 700 sheep in the flocks, spread across 8 different locations, our dogs have more than enough work to do!
We have come to know the Working Kelpie as an excellent stockdog, one that fits perfectly with our way of working with livestock. The Working Kelpie does what needs to be done to get the livestock moving. Handling the dog in a way that suits it ensures that all its qualities truly come out.