ABOUT US

Calais Australian Shepherds / Rick & Terri Morgan & Libby Stibley and Carolina Aussies/ Selena Poplin decided to join forces in presenting this website for your pleasure. Selena and Terri are business partners in a small boarding kennel - Caro-lais Kennel at the Morgan home in Kiowa, CO. When the Morgan family moved to Colorado in December of 1992 we invited Selena to come with us to the “wild west”. She enthusiastically agreed and it has been a great partnership for the since with the boarding kennel and also with all of our Aussies.

We have teamed up and have co-bred all of the litters here at “Caro-Lais Kennel” and have formed a very successful breeding program consistantly producing sound, intelligent, versatile, winning aussies that also make wonderful family pets. Selena and Terri started showing Aussies about the same time. Selena had been to a couple of shows when Terri met her, then off to a show they went and the rest is history. Both Carolina and Calais have some of the same foundation dogs as well as breeding ethics and convictions so it was a natural match for the partnership that now exists.

Selena lives in the next town - Elizabeth in December of 2001 but we continue to operate the boarding kennel and co-breed our litters.

Rick continues to work hard at being Terri’s husband, the kennel maintenance man and building whatever equipment we decide we need to get going in a new area of competition! Rick has his home based business doing metal artwork. RAMWORKS Metal Artwork is the link to his new site. He is doing everything from specialized trophies to custom gates, deck railings and all types of things. Contact him at our home number 303-621-2128 or his cell at 720-883-4341 or email to Rick Morgan to inquire further .

Rick & Terri's daughter,Libby, married Jason Stibley in July of 2001 and she continues to be very active in showing. In May of 2002 Rick and Terri took on 3 sibling sisters and finalized the adoption of them in December of 2002! Ashley (4/98) Alyssa (4/99) and Madison (8/01) are wonderful children that have truely blessed us with their presence in our home. Challenge, YES, unsurmountable, HARDLY! Watch for their entertaining antics in the show ring. Our son John is not active with the dogs but is a wonderful BIG BROTHER to the girls and a great son. He lives in Travers City, MI and we enjoy his visits whenever we can get them! Libby became an ASCA Breeder Judge following in her mom, Terri's footsteps and is close to completing the requirements for the Senior level. We are very proud of her. She is a paralegal for a small law firm in Denver and stays very busy.

We have been blessed with a very prepotent male line from our foundation sire HOF CH Briarbrook’s Bishop Of Wyndridge, CD STDdsc “Quincy”. The next generation has been HOF Sire CH Carolina's Im CN Red, CD "Arby". The next sire in line has been HOF AKC/ASCA/CAN CH Calais’ OutAOptions, STDs “Auggie” ASCA’s #1 Conformation dog for the ‘97-’98 show year who has produced conformation, obedience and herding titled get. Auggie obtained HOF Status in 2002. Frozen semen is available from Auggie in CO. The next generation is asca HOF usasa HOFX AKC/ASCA CH Carolina’s Rave Reviews,HSAs, CD RV-O, JV-O, GV-N, STDc ATDsd ROMXIII, ROMIc “Bronson” who was the #1 ASCA conformation dog for the ‘98-’99 show year following in his sire’s paw prints. He obtained HOFstatus at the young age of 5 1/2 years in 2002. Bronson has produced a HOF son (8th generation) "Ethan" and a #1 Conformation dog "Jax" (3rd generation) both of whom can be seen on his get page. There is frozen semen available in CO. Our next two sires are CH Calais Carolina Rebel Yell "Gavin", he is a full brother to CH Calais Carolina Mustang Sally STDdsc- #1 Conformation dog for the 2005-2006 ASCA show year. Gavin has many titled get in the performance and show rings as well as stock and achieved the ASCA HOF Sire award. Visit his page. Gavin is now retired from stud. Another male we have frozen semen on in CO is CH Calais Carolina Cadence "Cade". Cade had been doing a wonderful job as a sire. He is now living in Belgium, co-owned by Genevieve Chome. The next sire is CH Calais Carolina Vintage T-Bird - "Vinnie" who is owned by and lives with his owner ,Lynn Brodin , in Illinois. He is co-owned by Calais/Carolina He has some very nice get on the ground and we are very excited with what we are seeing. There is frozen semen available in CO from Vinnie. asca/akc CH Carolina Calais Northern Exposure "Rudee" is another young exciting male , there is frozen semen available from him in CO , he lives with his owner Ingrid Oliver in Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a littermate brother to our most recent 2011-2012 #1 Overall Conformation Merit winner - akc CH GCH asca CH Calais Carolina Fly Girl "Piper"! Watch for exciting things! Our up and coming young male currently is Calais Carolina Unmarked Bill's "Mark" who won't be 2 years old until June but he is already making his "mark" in the breed ring. He is major pointed AKC and ASCA with very limited showing. Mark was RWD at one preshow and the ASCA Nationals in Bakersfield (2012). Mark will be finished in both AKC and ASCA this year (2013) and will then turn to stock training.

All of these dogs have links on our website so please enjoy the site and contact us with any questions or comments and thank you for visiting!
 
Thank you to EVERYONE for their tremendous support and for sharing our joy. We have been blessed with a wonderful family, aweseome, supportive friends and talented beautiful dogs.