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Avonel BorderCollies, Ellerston (2025)

16/12/2025

Beautiful Miss Maple

She looks more and more like her mother and just as smart.

~ Avonel Ever Redie Maple ~

Sire ~ Dreamwood Red Ryleigh
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDogs Violet Pisces

18/11/2025

Agility Time with Maple.

Her face says it all

Avonel Ever Redie Maple

Sire ~ Dreamwood Red Ryleigh
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDogs Violet Pisces

15/09/2025

🚫 LITTERMATE SYNDROME FACTS 101 ❌️

Why We Don’t Adopt Sibling Puppies Together

We’ve had a few heated messages about adopting 2 from our current litters and even some on our Jesse and James post, so let’s clear something up.

❤️ Yes, Jesse and James have a heartbreaking story but rescue work isn’t about warm fuzzies and “awww they love each other.” It’s about long-term animal welfare, rehabilitation, and implementing documented behavioural practices. If we keep applying our own emotions on to dogs, we would fail.

🐾 What is Littermate Syndrome?

When two siblings are raised together, instead of bonding with humans and learning independence, they bond primarily with each other. Sounds cute… until it isn’t. Symptoms can include:

❌️Aggression toward each other, especially when high-value resources (food, toys, your shoes 😬) enter the picture

❌️Stunted social development and inability to cope with new environments

❌️Training difficulties (because they tune each other out and ignore you)

❌️ Fights to the death. This has happened more times than people realise.

And here’s the kicker: it doesn’t usually show up at 8–10 weeks. It rears its head around 12 months old, when hormones leap. That’s when we get the desperate calls.

📊 Our Reality

Every single year we take in 40–50 dogs suffering from littermate syndrome. And that’s not counting the ones we didn’t have room for. This isn’t a myth. It isn’t a scare tactic. It’s a brutal, documented fact we deal with on the ground.

🙅🏽‍♀️ “But I had siblings before and they were fine!”

Good for you, truly. Some people can juggle knives blindfolded too, but that doesn’t make it a good policy for us to hand out knives at puppy preschool. Just because it worked once doesn’t make it ethical or safe for us to roll the dice with every pup.

Would you let your child learning to drive a car, learn with no seatbelt? You know the risks but YOU haven't had an accident yet therefore you're living proof that it's ok right? Or would you always apply practices to PREVENT as much damage long term as possible?

💔 About Jesse & James

They’re siblings, yes. But they’re also trauma survivors. Puppies from abusive situations don’t need to cling to each other, it wont help them heal. In fact, it does the opposite.

They need confident role models (older, stable dogs) and humans who can give them individual guidance. Keeping them together reduces their chance at rehabilitation and adoption. They wont come out their shell because both exhibit the same trauma response. They need to watch another dogs healthy reactions and copy them.

If we let human emotions override logic and evidence-based practice, we’d be running a sham organisation. That’s not who we are. Dog welfare comes first, always. The comments on the Jesse and James post were out of passion and heart, we know that but when people start coming into our inbox with abusive messages, we will draw the line.

✨ Our Policy (and your attitude)

Circle back to examples like this one here who we politely declined to adopt 2 from the same litter and we gave the explanation of littermate syndrome.

We won’t adopt littermates together. It’s that simple. You can be upset about it, but being rude to us won’t change the fact that science, logic, and welfare outweigh “but they look cute together in photos.” Also using your work email to be rude was a bold move before I've had my 3 earl greys.

We’re here to do what’s best for the dogs, even when it’s unpopular. And if you truly love Jesse, James, or any rescue pup, you’ll understand that putting their future first sometimes means making the hard calls.

11/09/2025

Campings not camping without a dog!!!

Maple girl you are just so perfect.

Avonel Ever Redie Maple

Sire ~ Dreamwood Red Ryleigh
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDogs Violet Pisces

08/09/2025

Another stand out pup!!

Congratulations to lil Gru AKA - Gardenia and his amazing family.

Gru’s next step is heading to obedience classes at Newcastle all breeds. His family said he is super smart and a quick learner.

Keep up the great work team, Gru.

Sire ~ Supreme Champion Neecabe Versace
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDOGS Violet Pisces

07/09/2025

Amen to that! 🧄 💪

01/09/2025

Look at this pretty lil smarty pants, Lil Ruby (AKA Lily) is smashing her puppy goals.

So proud of her and her family for all their hard work.

Sire ~ Supreme Champion Neecabe Versace
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDOGS Violet Pisces

28/08/2025

Congratulations are in order for Archie, the most stunning boy, and his dedicated pawrents, Ben and Roya, upon completing their Level One obedience classes.

Onto class two.
Outstanding achievement!

Sire ~ Dreamwood Red Ryleigh
Dam ~ Avonels RJ Dogs Violet Pisces

30/07/2025

Happy 3rd birthday to our Summer!!

Sire ~ Dreamwood Amarantine Prince
Dam ~ Avonel’s Rjdogs Violet Pisces RN

30/07/2025

Happy 3rd birthday to the very special princesses from our first litter.

Sire ~ Dreamwood Amarantine Prince
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDogs Violet Pisces RN

21/07/2025

Mr Sunny has settled into his forever family and is doing well.

He is now known as 'Wilbur'.

Sire ~ Supreme Champion Neecabe Versace
Dam ~ Avonel's RJDogs Violet Pisces RN

17/07/2025

Our Beautiful black and white boy - Daffi aka Daffodil (yes he kept his name)

Daffi living his best life by the beach with a wonderful dedicated family.

Sire ~ Supreme Champion Neecabe Versace
Dam ~ Avonel’s RJDogs Violet Pisces RN

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