Australian Shepherd archive tees, sweatshirts and hoodies

Despite the name, the breed was made in the American West. Ranchers in California and the Rocky Mountain states developed it through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from collie-type dogs, some arriving with Basque shepherds who had come by way of Australia, which is how the name fixed itself to the wrong continent. Rodeo trick dogs in the 1950s made it famous. It remains a working stock dog with an unusually strong attachment to one household, the sort that follows a person from kitchen to shed to car and treats the family as a flock to be kept together in one place. The archive drawing gives the merle coat its broken, uneven pattern honestly rather than tidying it, and sets the ears half-lifted, the way an Aussie holds them while listening.