24/02/2025
The 23rd of February is a very special day in the Mungindy Cattle Dog Breeder family. In the early hours of 23 Feb 2013 Gindi started to whelp. This was her and Barra’s first litter and ours too. We were in a deep sleep( after a fun Saturday night) I was woken by Barra sitting on us. There on the bed was the first born still in the sack, We removed the sack and rushed the puppy and Gindi down to the whelping box. Shortly after Gindi had her second puppy a blue male. I immediately thought, this one we are going to keep. What an amazing brood bitch she turned out to be, straight into nurturing. It went on during the night she had seven healthy pups. Vet checked. The first blue boy is our Elbee (little Barra) who has stayed with us forever.
So friends, vets and breeder friends suggested that I should become a licenced dog breeder. The rest is history, registered dog breeder Mungindy Cattle Dogs breeder prefix Mungindy.
Barra and Gindi had 3 perfect litters, nurtured until they were ready to go to their forever homes. Elbee and our red girl Meg went on to have 2 beautiful litters. And we have one of their sons, blue boy Bruin. Bruin and Meg have a very special relationship, quite unusual. In Meg’s litter Bruin would jump into the whelping box and nurture the puppies until they found their forever homes. Watching mother and son play together she is like a six month old puppy, to this day.
we have sadly lost Barra but we have 2 red girls and 2 blue boys. A grandmother Gindi, her son Elbee, his partner Meg and their son Bruin.
Yesterday morning was Elbee’s special day, his 12th birthday. He wore a purple ribbon, we took him to his favourite water hole, the legendary bend in the Hawkesbury river at Macquarie Park Windsor for ball play and swims,. ball chucking swimming, photographic sessions, socializing, meeting with other dogs. I observed how good his sight and hearing is. Pretty good for a 12 year old. After the park, breakfast at the Bakehouse in Wilberforce for a sausage roll for Elbee then on the way home to his favourite Bunnings store where he was welcomed with some fresh water. More socialising with other dogs their owners and staff.
Home and the highlight for all our cattle dogs is PANCAKES. Then on a full stomach they settled down and had a quiet night.
Don’t you just love and adore them.
