The litter is due between the first week and second week in October.

Holly has a delightful sense of humor and enjoys being and working with her people. She is a quiet herder and has worked mainly with sheep at our trainer’s house. She is quick and responsive when training for agility or just playing ball at home. Since her daddy has retired from agility, she is my main partner and has earned her AGI & AGII agility titles. She has a super temperament & possesses the good sense know how to help enforce the “good” rules at our house. Always alerts to strangers, roaming animals, snakes and predatory birds, plus is a great varmint eradicator. She has proven herself to be a great mom with her previous litters.

Zeke is a sable and white boy whose pedigree is 3/4 Cedar Creek lines and the remaining 1/4 goes back to my 2004 litter between Becca & Rex through his grandsire, Sawyer.  So while this is somewhat of an outcross with the Cedar Creek lines, there is a little bit of linebreeding back to my foundation female.

From Mike:  Zeke is a shaded sable and white English Shepherd approaching three years of age. He has a very calm and loving disposition. While he is comfortable as a pet companion, he also displays good working instincts and will work stock when asked. He has a loose eye and upright approach choosing in most cases to use bark rather than bite to enforce the rules. His limited experience is mostly with cattle and poultry. He is very biddable especially when one-on-one with his master. He is energetic and a very fast runner. Displaying some guardian instinct, he will stand his ground with other animals in his domain. He is alert and will bark as a warning when something is out of order but not incessantly. Overall, he is a lover and a pleaser.

Brian & I went to visit Mike Mayo and meet Zeke back in March of this year.  The thing that was very obvious to both of us was Zeke's calmness and the ability to interact with strangers after initial introductions.  With the visit in August, this was still very true.  We both very much liked Zeke's calm demeanor.

I am expecting a sable & white litter.  While some of Zeke's littermates do carry the black and tan gene, I am not sure that he does.  I just don't "see" the b&t gene expressing itself through his markings like I can on Holly.  If he happens to carry it, then there could be some tri-colors in the litter.