Unfortunately, we are saddened to announced the passing of Tumbledown’s Super Sonic on the 19th of February, 2008.

Super is a dog who has contributed greatly to the white shepherd community throughout the world including Australia, and will live on through his offspring and beyond.

Super was born on the 06/03/1996 and was just shy of his 12th birthday when he passed. This grand old man of the dog world will be sorely missed.

We at Fanuilos hope Super will live on through our dog Freyja (Alpinarc Envy Me), Super is Freyja’s great great grandsire and her line is a testament to the quality of dog Super has produced. We also hope our recent AI procedure with Super semen over our dog Elli (Sovereign Park Minerva) is successful and continues to add quality dogs to Super’s legacy in Australia.

Our thoughts go out to Rhonda at Surefire Shepherds in her time of sorrow.

Elli was artificially inseminated for her first litter today. The litter is with
UKC Grand CH/IABCA CH Tumbledowns Super Sonic.

We’ll will be confirming the pregnancy by ultrasound in approximately 3 to 4 weeks.

If all was successful, we expect puppies in mid April.

Please see our Planned Litter page for further information.

A blow by blow account of the AI process and lead up to it the procedure, please see Fellowship of White Shepherds.

Good news - after a delay of 4 months, Elli has finally come into season. We start the process of hormone testing on the 5th of February and she should be mated via AI some time in the next 2 weeks.

We have been planning this mating for over a year and the litter should be quite exciting.

If everything is successful, we expect the pups to arrive in early April 2008. We are still taking reservations for this litter.

For information on the planned litter, please see our Planned Litter page and the individual dogs pages.

Please contact us for further information.