Thanks for the info, Silver, I sure didn't realize that about bob-tailed
Aussies. I have always favored a bob-tailed dog for some unknown
reason. We haven't had many dogs with long tails, just some blue
heelers as we would never bob their tails. We had a natural bob-tailed
female years ago, that we were told was an English Shepherd. But she
had a bunch of pups that were the red merles, so maybe there was some Aussie in her as well. She was real coarse
haired, black and very shiny, beautiful dog, and not too big. We liked
her a lot. Our very best dog, that we don't even know what she was
was natural bob tailed. I'll have to post a picture of her. She looks
some like a black-mouthed cur. Tan with white ring around her
neck and some white on her legs. Very coars haired and tough
as a nut with no bark at cattle. The people we got her from raised them for over 40 years, but they forgot what they were :???: and just bred them for type whenever they found a male that they thought would work.
Those dogs were know far and wide as the "Birrer's Dogs" from the
Ruby Valley in Montana.
Thanks for the info on your dogs coyote. They sure are good looking dogs.