Welcome to Lyntree Collies website. 

(Graphic above done by Jenny Herd)

Merry Xmas to everyone - We - Murray, Penny & Laura will spend our first Christmas back in NZ (since our move in 2000) to celebrate with our new granddaughter. 

Thanks to Jenine & Aileen for looking after my 4 legged kids while we are away.

Special holidays/birthdays are always sad when you are so far from the special people in your lives. 

So this is a very exciting time for us.  We hope that you enjoy your Xmas as much as I know that we will enjoy ours.

We are Murray & Penny Brooks and together with our children Kristen (Watson) in NZ & Laura here in Australia we are LYNTREE COLLIES.  Lyntree is our registered prefix in both NZ & Australia.

We have been breeding and showing dogs for over 28 years.  All our dogs are raised and live in the house (which at the moment is a 38 foot motorhome) and they allow us to share the bed with them.

We sometimes have puppies available to super family homes but all our puppies leave here spayed/neutered so Puppy Farmers don't waste your time contacting us. 

Photo: Deborah (Natural Pets - see links)

"Owd Bob"

by Alfred Ollivant (1898)

Should you,
while wandering in the wild sheep land,
happen on moor or in market
upon a very perfect gentle knight,
clothed in dark grey habit,
splashed here and there with rays of moon;

free by right divine
of the guild of gentleman,
strenuous as a prince,
lithe as a rowan,
graceful as a girl,
with high king carriage,
motions and manners of a fairy queen;
should he have a noble breadth of brow,
on air of still strength
born of right confidence, all unassuming;

last and most unfailing test of all,
should you look into two snow-clad eyes,
calm, wistful, inscrutable,
their soft depths clothed on with eternal sadness
--- yearning, as is said,
for the soul that is not theirs ---

know then,
that you look upon
one of the line of the most illustrious
sheepdogs of the North.

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