Hi there this is my first post on the forum so please forgive if I've put this in the wrong place.  Does anybody know of any Australian Kelpie breeders in the UK preferably in the North West.

Scroll down this link warning though they are working dogs so like BCs are not always good pet material

You could try this:

www.essentia.ltd.uk/KelpieForum/

You will have to register with them to post a message but there are a lot of Kelpie owners on there both old and new. The dogs do a variety of things, agility, flyball stockwork. There is also a link to a website with some breeders listed. As MM says they are a working breed and are known to be quite tough, I wouldn't recommend them as a pet so if you are not planning to work one then don't have one. :-) I am sure the people on the forum will be able to help you with anything you need to know... good and bad points.

Thanks guys for your help and suggestions.  The thing is I'm not actually looking for a Kelpie as a pet.  I already have a dog, a cross breed and have always wondered what she is crossed with.  It wasn't until the other day when I came across a picture of a Kelpie that I wondered 'could this be what she is crossed with?'  She was a rescue pup and I was told she is a whippet x possible collie.  She definatley has a lot of collie traits but is black and tan.  Is there anyway of posting photos on here?  I would be intriged to see what you all make of her.  I have had a few agility lessons with her and was told she would be really good at it.  It doesn't really matter to me what breeds are in her really I am just interested in her heritage :)

I don't think you can post pictures on here but you can post them on the kelpie forum, let us know what they think! :-D There have actually been a few kelpies in rescue that have been advertised as crossbreeds because nobody knew what they were. If the opinion is that your dog is a Kelpie cross and not a collie cross then you could compete in ABC classes with her. :-D

I would personally doubt that she is a Kelpie X if you are in the UK as most kelpie are kept as working dogs

I used to have a mongrel who resembled a mini long coated GSD that my vet wanted to call a Collie GSD X she wasn't she was a mongrel  who pedigree origins were probably 10s of generrations behind her & could have been anything from a Corgi to a longcoat standard dachshund. She was simply a mongrel & I loved her non the less for it than any of my otheer dogs who were all pedigree dogs

Enjoy your dog & be happy that in the UK any dog can do agility obedience etc regradless of pedigree or breed

Bit of a longshot, but there have been some kelpies used for lurcher breeding in the UK. So a kelpie/whippet could be a possibility. A chap that regulalrly does lurcher displays at game/country fairs uses kelpie crosses.

There are black & tan BC/WSD  registered with the ISDS in fact there are a miriad of colours of BCs not just the ones the KC recognize as of course the UK breed standard isn't British at all but the Australian KC standard & I don't think that the show dogs trully represent the colour range that actually exists in BCs. The ISDS have no requirement for correct colours

there are some pups on agility eyeys web site at the moment and they could put you intouch with a breeder near you.

Erm which colours  does the KC not register MM. The only colour our standard classes as a fault is predominately white.(it is our standard as its been accepted as such even if it is based on another) I grant you what you see in the show ring is not representative of the colours out there but they are still out there KC registered aswell.Its a bit like the chicken and the egg what came first. Put a lilac in front of a judge do they recognise it as a correct colour ? Would they put it up if its quality was outstanding ? Human nature says I need to show a classically marked black and white to do well therefore a vicious circle of no colours in the show ring. Although at the moment a few Aussie reds are beginning to appear :D

Hi Havoc, you are right. There is a kelpie cross greyhound in agility at the moment although you wouldn't know it to look at it. There is also someone with a kelpie cross collie competing so anything is possible :-D