WHO WE ARE: PinFire ACDs is the property of Sean & Barbara Finegan. Barb is currently president of the Central Pennsylvania Australian Cattle Dog Club (a regional specialty breed club) and is past president (served 3 terms) of the Bull Run Australian Cattle Dog Club. I am member in good standing with the national cattle dog club, the Australian Cattle Dog Club of America.

We have three cattledogs: 2 older neutered males, DoughyDog and Buddy, our farm dogs from NSDR stock (and the basis for an everlasting appreciation for the breed), and our AKC female, Cooter Bean.

Note: Cooter's coloring is an extremely loud or heavy mottle, which is not all that common. She is a blue cattle dog. She is not a "rare white" or "reverse mottle". You might run across those descriptions; consider them layman's terms rather than the proper terminology. Her coloring is acceptable with the AKC breed standard. See her littermates here.

Please research the coat colors of the original cattle dogs if you feel Cooter's color is somehow "incorrect"; you might learn things that surprise you. If education is too much effort, then there's not much anyone can do to help you.

Cooter is from an excellent breeder in South Dakota, Delta Lentsch of Drywood ACDs.
Cooter's pedigree, click here.

All of our dogs have herded goats, sheep, ducks or cattle, either at clinics, personal practice, and/or in AKC competition. If you have a herding breed, then TRY IT; you certainly learn a lot from the experience.