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SHIMMER
Shimmer is an Australian Koolie currently living in Queensland, she is 5 Months old at the moment and our first Koolie (although I've wanted one as long as I can remember). I originally come from NSW and my family has had Cattle farms all over northern NSW and now Southern Queensland, I live in surburbia though and find these dogs to be great loyal companion dogs as well as working dogs I never imagined them to be tougher than any other dog until I got Shimmer, she loves to run and catch things at the park and we could spend all day and night there easily.
We have a 10 Year Old Bassett Hound named Bailey (Kinkiwi Fatty Arbuckle) who is my oldest dog so far. He loves Shimmer so much... I don't think I've ever seen him run so fast to catch upto anything, and at his age he should probably slow down but we're not going to stop him. Shimmer's name was very elusive for a time we didn't know what to call her, every name we could think of just didn't suit her. Her breeder has nicknamed her "Freckles" and that very nearly became her name, until I got fed up with her disappearing all the time to chase things and suddenly reappearing right behind me (as a good herding dog should ^_^). We later discovered her love of all things shiny and reflective as she likes to look at herself in the mirror from time to time and named her Shimmer. She would make an excellent Herder when and if I decide to test her but for now she's just happy being a house pet with poor retired Bailey my first show dog.
