Maggie is my third Bearded Collie, she was born on June 5 2002.
Maggie was bred in Germany. I met her breeder, Amy Rodenburg, a few years before at a show. Maggie is the first beardie I bought for showing and breeding, so it was the first time for me to select a puppy on beauty, I chose Cippy because she was the most active puppy in the litter, and I thought she was funny. Dexter was the only puppy left to be sold, and he happened to be the most calm one in his litter.

When Maggie was 9 weeks, we started puppy training, we did this quite well. After the puppy training we started puppy agility. This is really fun to do, although you're very limited in what you can do with your puppy. Next to this I have practised showing with Maggie from the moment I got her, everyday we practised for about 5 minutes. And Maggie learnt very quickly everything about showing. In Januari 2004 we started agility, although we missed a lot of lessons in the beginning because of Cippy her litter, Maggie learned everything very fast. She really loves agility and I do to, so we are both very sorry we had to give it up because we were missing too many lessons.

 Maggie has a very outgoing and friendly character, she just loves people and wants to be cuddled all the time! She could lie on your lap all day long! But she's also always in front when we're going for a walk, her favourite activity outside is to run very fast and try to get the other dogs to go after her. Dexter sometimes goes after her, but when he has almost caught up with her, Maggie makes an 180 degrees turn and Dexter will give up chasing her. Now we have more beardies, Maggie doesn't have to try and get Dexter to chase her anymore, she can also race with the other beardies.

Maggie is mother of four litters, she is a wonderful mother who gives beautiful puppies with great characters. Maggie is now enjoying her retirement by playing with her kids and grandkids, she also loves to play with Jarod or any other beardie that she can persuade to a game of "catch me if you can"!