Our Collies

LestWeForget Nurse Merry Gladwin "Merry"

Merry is from Fergie's winter 2018 litter (Fergie is Florian's full sister). Merry is everything we ever could have hoped for in a collie girl. She is a unicorn (genetically speaking) that is clear of all diseases that can affect collies. She is sweet, derpy, trainable and a HUGE suck for attention/snuggling.

Collie Eye Anomaly - Clear (WT/WT)
Cyclic Neutropenia - Clear (WT/WT)
Degenerative Myelopathy - Clear (WT/WT)
Hyperuricosuria - Clear (WT/WT)
Multidrug Resistance 1/MDR1 - Clear (WT/WT)
Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Rod-Cone Dysplasia 2 - Clear (WT/WT)

Link to Paw Print Genetics test results for Merry

LestWeForget Cpl. Ferguson "Fergie"

Fergie was a service dog in training that we pulled one litter from to keep her genetics, even though she needed to be fixed to go on into her working life.

Health:
MDR1 - Clear (WT/WT)
CEA - Carrier (WT/M)
Cyclic Neutropenia - Clear (WT/WT)
Degenerative Myelopathy - Clear (WT/WT)
Hyperuricosuria - Clear (WT/WT)
Von Willebrand Disease II - Clear (WT/WT)

Retired from our breeding program and loving life as a therapy dog.

Click to see Fergie's PawPrint Genetics Profile

LestWeForget Cpl. Paul Blais "Blais"

*Retired* Blais is our up-and-coming girl born in December 2014. She already has her Novice Trick Dog title, Silver Up in Frizgility (frisbee x agility), Golden Receiver and Sharpshooter achievements (UpDog Disc), pulled a kicksled on trails in the winter, pulled children in a cart for the Highland Games and starred in a mattress commercial! and has her Sharp Shooter achievement in UpDog disc.

She is a go-getter and NOTHING phases her. We even did some obedience training 20ft from a concrete cutter in our neighborhood and she just wanted to keep working.
(Thank you to Sam Hjalmarson for the center photo below)
Health:
MDR1 - n/m (+/-) [health gene certified]
CEA - Mild
Cyclic Neutropenia - Clear (WT/WT)
Degenerative Myelopathy - Clear (WT/WT)
Hyperuricosuria - Clear (WT/WT)
Von Willebrand Disease II - Clear (WT/WT)

Retired from our breeding program. She still lives with us and is loving working as a therapy dog at a K-12 school.

Click here to see Blais' PawPrint Genetics Profile

LestWeForget Operation Athena
"Athena"

*Retired* Athena is our program's super mom, born October 2012. In her first litter, 6 of the 8 puppies became service dogs. She is the mom of the 'Peacekeeping 1 and 2' litters and the SOS (Soldiers of Suicide) litter where 5 out of 8 puppies are in service training. She loves hanging out on the couch and catching frisbees. She has been the smooth collie ambassador at the Highland games for the last three years, giving children rides in her cart all over the festival.
Health:
Hips - OFA Good (CO-3254G67F-NOPI)
Elbows - Normal (CO-EL549F67-NOPI)
Eyes - CEA, normal (carrier)
MDR1 - Carrier (WT/M)

After having 18 beautiful puppies for us, she is enjoying retirement as a family pet at my brother-in-law's. She's had no health issues in her life and she's still spry at over 14 years old!

Cherfire's Lightning Express, CD, CGN, TT, HIC, FD, BPD, THR-1, RN, FDD
"Vimy"

*Over the Bridge* Vimy is our Foundation girl born in 2006. She was an outstanding girls who was very versatile. She had consistently impressed us with her work ethic, natural retrieve, calm temperament and trainability. She had done work in agility, herding, therapy, disk, rally obedience, obedience, carting, tracking, backpacking, flyball, TV work, sledding and being a nanny dog to our little girl - a truly versatile rough collie and great to live with. She was just as happy to lay on the couch all day as to go out and do work. She was from a strong line of working collies that include service dogs.
Her titles include CKC obedience (CD, High-In-Class), rally obedience, temperament tested, herding, flyball, backpacking, therapy work, rally and disc. (that's a lot of work! It was before I had kids!)

Health:
Hips - OFA Good
Elbows - OFA Normal
Thyroid - OFA Normal
Heart - OFA Cardiac Normal
Eyes - CEA affected (mild)
MDR1 - m/m (-/-)

Over the rainbow bridge at over 14 years of age <3