About the Breed
The Australian Shepherd is a medium-sized breed with a well-balanced, athletic build and a thick, medium-length coat. They are known for their striking coat colors, often merle, and their bright, intelligent eyes. Australian Shepherds are highly energetic, intelligent, and loyal dogs, excelling in both work and play environments.
Disciplines: Herding, obedience training, agility, rally obedience, search and rescue, trick training, therapy dog work, competitive canine sports, tracking.
Traditional Breed Specific Genetic Tests:
✓ Coagulation Factor VII Deficiency
✓ Collie Eye Anomaly
✓ Cone Degeneration
✓ Craniomandibular Osteopathy
✓ Degenerative Myelopathy (Common Variant)
✓ Exercise-Induced Collapse
✓ Hereditary Ataxia (Australian Shepherd Type)
✓ Hereditary Cataracts (Australian Shepherd Type)
✓ Hyperuricosuria
✓ Intestinal Cobalamin Malabsorption (Australian Shepherd Type)
✓ Intestinal Cobalamin Malabsorption (Border Collie Type)
✓ Multidrug Resistance 1
✓ Multifocal Retinopathy 1
✓ Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis 5 (Herding Dog Type)
✓ Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis 6
✓ Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis 8 (Australian Shepherd Type)
✓ Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration
✓ Von Willebrand Disease I