Got a new puppy today. Born Christmas Eve. Dad was a border collie/blue heeler mix mom was a red heeler. Super sweet and calm, just wants to be held. Kids are in love

Congrats! Good looking pup too!

Nice looking Pup for sure!

Have fun, good looking pup

You going to use him on cattle?

That would be a good cattle pup

Sweet little thing

That's a workin dog, y'all need a plan.

We have 5 kids that are basically wild animals,so kind of. He'll mostly be a house pooch to keep the kids busy. He'll come on the trapline too. I don't catch coyotes so he won't be really used for that, but at least he can have fun barking at raccoons.

Real nice pup there!

Sweet looking pot licker ( puppy ) you have there ! Remember he may start heeling the kids hopefully not but it may happen.

Congrats

catch is basically correct......i trained 3 heelers in philippines....easy and quick to train but they were always outside. They followed the water buffalo and chickens around.
I have raised and trained many working dogs over the yrs and had some champs. Now as a senior I bought my son a registered working dog border colllie to use on goats next yr. Trained him in days and since its winter we keep him in mostly but take him out to play ball a bit. He is from a working dog line registered abca and akc and a constant bundle of energy. He will run until death i believe. Main thing is keep them busy so they dont get into much mischief. They will keep themselves busy. Also since yours are crossbred they may not be too bad energy wise but time will tell. Also as Keith pointed out awhile back different breeding brings about diff traits. There are dogs that were bred to show specs and dogs that were bred to work specs.

Too Dang Cute...

Cute, but it's hard to believe that a pup with that much heeler in it can be calm!!

give it a month or 2....also depends the parents.

Parents were working farm dogs, but also inside-house dogs, and good with kids. He's a bundle of energy now. Not wound up or hyper at all, but definitely needs something to do or he'll find his own naughty thing to do. Very dominant and headstrong too, but he's very quickly accepted that he has masters in me, the wife, and 2 of the kids. He thinks he playmates with 1 of the kids, and the boss of two of the kids. The 2 kids he thinks he's the boss of are 7 and 4 year old girls, and they get nervous when he gets chewy, and he knows it, but we're working on it. If he's got work to do (playing in the yard, playing with toys, etc) he does good with them and listens, it's just when he's got nothing "productive" to do that he gets demanding. He's definitely got that herding instinct though.

This is murphy with the 7 year old.

Nice,,ears are up now. Yup i didnt think my heelers were hyper compared to border collies...just would work if needed

Enjoy, good looking pup