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About Revelaire:

Revelaire is a dream come true. From a young age I knew I wanted to train and breed fine
dogs. I love training and competing with my 4-legged best friends. I also wanted to produce
puppies that would enrich the lifes of their new owners and make us all proud. Thank God
that dreams do come true.

One of the first questions people ask us is what does REVELAIRE mean? It is a Latin form of
the word of the word Revelation. Not only an important book of the Bible, but there is deep
word in its meaning. It means "Awakening, or eye-opening occurrence." Everything about
owning, breeding, training, and showing dogs is just that, a revelation.

Our family:

We live in rural Indiana, on a 7 acre "farm" with horses, goats, cats, kids, and of course the
dogs. We work well as dog show family. Tim is happy to stay home and take care of the
remaining dogs while I take off to dog shows. Madison and Emma are quickly becoming
good helpers and already enjoy showing. Perhaps our new baby Drew will join in the dog
fun when he is older.
On the side, I am an agility and showmanship 4-H leader with Hendricks county, a 4-H
judge, the secretary of the Hoosier Working Australian Shepherd Club, trainer at Paws for
Fun, a certified CGC evaluator, and an ASCA member.

After nearly 15 years of training and showing dogs in 4-H, AKC, ASCA, and two different
mixed breed organizations, I decided that it was time to settle down and chose a breed to
focus on, one that might some day be the breed to fulfill my dreams of becoming a
successful breeder. This of course was a family decision and we spent much time
researching and traveling to shows to experience the breeds. After narrowing down the
choices, the obvious breed for us was the Australian Shepherd. This was also a breed that I
had spent years around in training and competing at the ASCA shows. We purchased our
first pup soon after.

Our goals with this breed have always been to buy and breed true to the breed standard.
We were drawn to the intelligence, temperament, and versatility of the breed and strive to
maintain everything that is attractive about them. We want our dogs to be correct in
conformation and temperament, but with the intelligence, instinct, and talent to work
stock, run agility, or do obedience, rally, tracking, Frisbee, etc. While we do breed for and
compete in the conformation ring, we do not chase the latest fads or cater to the winning
trends. When our dogs succeed, it is because they are true and correct to aussie form. See
our litter plans page for more information about our breeding goals.

I have been competing with dogs for over 22 years now. Currently we compete in agility,
conformation, obedience, and rally. We play around with herding.
Our two young daughters also train and compete. Madison, age 7, competes in agility and
junior handling. Emma, age 4, also does peewee handling.

Thank you!:

We would like to give a special thank to some very special people. First to the breeders who
helped us gather our foundation stock and who along the way have become great friends
and have given helpful advise: Julie Anderson of Dekor Aussies, Lana Singleton and family
of Loyal Spirit Aussies, and Shelly Gordon of Stargate Aussies. I would also like to thank
Cathy K. and Anna S. for their mentorship when I was a teen. They both
encouraged/pushed me to be a successful dog trainer and competitor. They went out of
their way to help me in that experience, taking me to many shows and seminars. A special
thank you to my Grandma Mathias who not only let me tag along as a little girl to her IOTC
obedience practices, but bought me my first set of competition jumps and is still one of my
biggest fans to this day. Of course a very special thanks to my parents who tolerated and
supported me through all of those crazy years of taking me to dog practices and shows.
They are great supporters of our dog passion and are the world�s best dog sitters! Thank
you to both sets of grandparents who have watched the kids many weekends so that I
could travel to shows. Thanks to Brenda Staley who is not only a great friend, but allows
me to teach and train at her wonderful training facility. Thank you to my great group of
training and trialing buddies: Brenda, Yvonne, Dave, Karen, Mark, Melissa, Cheryl, Lynne,
Anita, Lysiane, Jolee, Susan, and on and on. A special thanks to Cheryl, who gave up a day
to go through puppy whelping hell with us with that first litter, but without her help some
of those pups wouldn�t be alive today. Another special thanks to Audrey who was a
wonderful traveling companion, helper, and handler. Also thank you to Tracey for your
help handling and putting up with the crazy aussies!
And a very special thank you to my best friend, my husband Tim. Even through some
eye-rolling he has always supported my passion in dogs. He ignores the amount spent, or
the time I have to be away at shows, and is always ready to welcome a new dog into the
family. Tim and my three wonderful kids make this all possible.

Our Future:

We have produced 22 Revelaire dogs, and co-bred 9 more. Five have stayed with us, and the
rest of them are out and about with their new owners. Thank you so much to those who
believed in our dogs and now love and cherish them. We trust you with our babies! Thank
you so much to the owners of Roxie, Chester, Troy, Jordii, Dobby, Indigo, Bo, Cody, Apple,
Vegas, Speed, Zoom, Dash, Kona, Cruise, Logan, Freddy, and Betsy. We are proud of what
these owners have already done with these dogs, and know there is much more to come.
We typically plan one litter a year. We carefully place those puppies in the homes we feel
best for each pup. Those puppies are our future and our legacy.
We are excited to see what the future holds!