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The Wiseachers
family suffered a devastating loss this summer. After 10 years
of selectively breeding for our vision of the perfect miniature
australian shepherd, we felt we should share our beautiful Luke with
other breeders and dog lovers. We decided to intrust Luke with
a good friend and fellow breeder for the summer show season.
He was taken to two shows, one the IBECA show in Missouri.
Luke came home looking a bit rough, but my vet and I couldn't find
anything wrong after a series of blood tests, so we brought him
home. Within a month, he was his old self again, so we didn't
think anything more about it. This winter we had a young
female have two false pregnancies and one lose a litter a week
early. By spring we knew something was amiss. In August,
our Baily lost another litter, this time it was very evident that
something was terribly wrong. Baily was tested for
Brucellosis and was positive. The only way she could have been
infected was through Luke. We had him tested, and he was also
positive. Because we didn't breed him during the show season,
we never considered Brucellosis because he was negative when he
left, and our understanding (vets too) was that it is a sexually
transmitted disease. We found out different, as our beloved
Jersey, who was already spayed, also contracted the disease.
In all, 8 of our beautiful dogs that gave us unconditional love, and
that we loved unconditionally in return, have had to be
destroyed. Please don't let their deaths count for
nothing. Go to our Brucellosis page and learn about this
illness. Test your dogs before breeding. Quarantine your
show dogs for at least 45 days after a show, and have them
tested. Contact your local and national breed
associations and show groups to require all dogs allowed on the show
grounds be negative for brucellosis, and all intact dogs be
tested yearly for the disease. By working together we can
control and eraticate this destructive disease.
In Loving
Memory
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Wiseachers Luken for Tn
Shine
Stein's Little Bud Lite x Greens Leather and
Lace |
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Wiseachers Flying Ace
Wiseachers Mighty
Mongo x Stein's Irish Rylie Blue.
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Stein's Baileys Irish
Cream |
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This is
Stein's Sweet Maggie Mae (Maggie). She is approximately
14" tall and 17 pounds. Maggie is a full sister to
Jersey, Baily and Boo. She is registered with the
National Stock Dog
Registry. |
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