Danlyn Miniature Aussies
Dani & I moved to our new home, once again back to Belleville, IL, on April 23, 2004. We are located approximately 15 miles east of St. Louis, MO, just across the Mississippi River.
I have been involved with the Miniature Australian Shepherds since 2000. Thanks to many friends, I hope to have my breeding program headed in the right direction. I am striving for high quality, health/temperment guaranteed dogs.
I began to show my dogs in 2001, and I think we are doing quite well for beginners. It is a lot of fun to meet new friends. We have two International All Breed shows that we attend locally, and I enjoy going to Lexington, KY every April. We also attended the MASCA National Specialty in Columbus, OH in 2005.
All of my breeding dogs have their hips OFA'd and their eyes CERF'd and all of my puppies' eyes are CERF'd as well after 6 weeks of age. Puppies are raised in my home and are handled daily from birth. They are socialized with other dogs, my cat, and played with by my husband, Keith, daughter, Dani, and Tyler, my stepson. We love each and every one of them! If you are interested in a Danlyn pup, please fill out my Puppy Application, as this helps me in determining the very best home for my puppies.
On April 3rd, 2006, I met the love of my life, Keith Wyvell. He has given me the strength I needed to continue with everyday life, as after two divorces, seemed very bleak. He now helps with the horses and the dogs and keeps some form of method to my madness. He is definitely the rock behind this whole operation and I am forever grateful that God brought us together. I prayed to find my soulmate, I stood in my kitchen, bawling, listening over and over to the song "Jesus Take The Wheel", and it wasn't much later that Keith came into my life.
Keith proposed on Christmas Eve, 2007!!
We are to be married Oct. 4, 2008.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy our website!
You may also visit our wedding website
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This page was last updated: August 25, 2008
Shelby
Rio
Reba
Paisley & Ritz
Two puppies from Reba's very last litter. They are both now Best In Show Bred By pups
and have found a new home with Ann Grenier of Forbidden Aussies, in Belchertown, MA.
Good Luck with your future show careers -
WE MISS YOU!!
Everyone who wants a pet should know exactly what happens if they
decide they can't keep their pet anymore. Not all shelters are exactly the
same, but this was written by a shelter manager, and I appreciated the post:
I am posting this (and it is long) because I think our society needs a huge "Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will. All of you breeders/sellers on craigslist should not only be flagged (and I hope the good people on craigslist will continue to do so with blind fury), but you should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know...that puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays", that come into my shelter are purebred dogs. The most common excuses I hear are; "We are moving and we
can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving too that doesn't allow pets? Or they say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would". How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? "We don't have time for her...". Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! "She's tearing up our yard...". How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her...we
know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog".
Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think
being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you...your pet has 72 hours to find
a new family from the moment you drop it off...sometimes a little longer if the
shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy...if it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose.
If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (pit bull,
rottie, mastiff, etc...) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted. If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed...it may get a stay of execution...not for long though. Most get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression...even the
"sweetest dogs" will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles...chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.
Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never
witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down".
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash...they always look like they think they are going for a walk...happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to "The Room", every one of them freaks out and puts on the breaks when we get to the door...it must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process...they will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff". Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk... I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves. When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed...waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind...it was just an animal and you can always buy another one right?
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your
eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head...I do everyday on
the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I
hate that it will always be there unless you people make some
changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much
farther than the pets you dump at a shelter. Between 9 and 11 MILLION
animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do
my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and
there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.
My point to all of this...DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!
Hate me or flag me if you want to...the truth hurts and reality is
what it is...I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about
breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or
buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I
saw this thing on craigslist and it made me want to adopt"...that would
make it all worth it.
Yes, I want to sell my pups, but before you buy a puppy from me, please read this article. I am a very reputable breeder, with many references as to the quality of my puppies, BUT.. I would rather you adopt a pet from the shelter if money is a big issue, because I put a LOT of hard work into the breeding & promotion program and I must try to recoup some of that in the prices of my puppies.
If after reading that, I am honored if you pick a puppy from me. You also don't know exactly what you are getting from a shelter, but I really do believe in adopting over spending money for the breeder's price. ( My puppies are $750-$1,000). I am a very small hobby breeder, maybe one or two litters per year, and I try to find the best match of puppy to buyer as I can. Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you find the new family member you are searching for.
