Q 01/05

Despite its name, the Australian Shepherd was developed in which US state?

A) Texas

B) Montana

C) California

D) Oklahoma

Answer · why

C) California

California is where the breed was developed in the 1800s. Some of its ancestors are said to have arrived there with sheep shipped from Australia, whic...

Q 02/05

Despite its name, a 2017 genome study grouped the Australian Shepherd with the herding breeds of which country?

A) Britain

B) Spain

C) Germany

D) France

Answer · why

A) Britain

Britain: its DNA sits with the sheepdogs of the British countryside, whichever way its ancestors reached the American West, overland from the East or ...

Q 03/05

The FCI breed standard ties the Australian Shepherd's name to which sheepherders, said to have arrived via Australia?

A) Welsh

B) Scottish

C) Basque

D) Greek

Answer · why

C) Basque

Basque sheepherders get the credit in the FCI's history, but breed historians dispute it: the Basques may simply have worked the dogs that were alread...

Q 04/05

The Aussie's earliest roots are traced to herding dogs brought to North America in the 1500s to tend whose sheep?

A) Spanish

B) English

C) French

D) Dutch

Answer · why

A) Spanish

Spanish conquistadors shipped over their hardy Churra sheep to feed soldiers and clergy at the missions, and brought herding dogs to mind the flocks.

Q 05/05

Australian Shepherds can inherit an eye defect named after which related herding breed?

A) Corgi

B) Collie

C) Kelpie

D) Briard

Answer · why

B) Collie

Collie eye anomaly turns up in Aussies too. Researchers found the same faulty stretch of DNA in every affected breed and concluded that they all inher...