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Perth, Western-Australia. 
Carol Watson, assisted by family and friends.
 9, ranging in age from 11 years till 7 months. 
For more than 30 years.
Bred about 60 champions. All the shelties kept and made into champions (one excepted) have at least one champion progeny. Many sable/white champions are successful in Australia, Singapore, Canada and Europe.
Now concentrating on blues and tricolours.
All shelties living in the house.

www.homestead.com/tiakinashelties
tiakina@git.com.au

Tiakina is named after a ship in New-Zealand, where Carol was born. It’s also a Maori word meaning ‘on your guard’. Carol and her husband Les started their foundation with two tricolours, Ch. Tryme My Satisfaction and his sister Tryme Silk Glow. Satan and Pippa, as they were called, brought them their first successes. Because West Australia is such a long way from the Eastern States and they only wanted to use dogs that they could see for their selves, they developed several parallel lines which they could later line breed to. They chose to line breed because they thought it was the quickest way of setting type in their line. When choosing which dogs to put together they never considered colour. Therefore, if the best dog for the bitch was a sable/blue mating, that was what they did. They always chose a tri factored sable though. Some of their best coloured and broken blues have come from these matings.

They never excluded any dog from breeding (it was long before eye and hip testing) as they felt it was a matter of making right combinations. Of course they also made classical faults in the beginning. They kept for instance all four male puppies from their first litter because they thought they were perfect. But in fact none of them turned out to be show quality.