Although the dogs recorded history has only been for a short time, since 1952, a private registry started by Mr Tom D Stodghill of Quilan Texas called Animal
Research Foundation or ARF. The first official Meeting to Organize the Australian Shepherd Club of
America known as ASCA was June 9,1957. For a time ASCA used the registration numbers to register the dogs from National Stockdog Registry or NSD a
Division of the International English Shepherd Registry Inc. There were two other Registries in the old days. The International Australian Shepherd Assn. or
IASA they started registering the breed in 1966, But by 1979 IASA and ASCA merged their registries under the one Name of the Australian Shepherd Club of
America. The Australian Shepherd was accepted to The American Kennel Club or AKC in 1993.
Australian Shepherds have varied shades of hair coat color with any
combination of eye color from bright bright blue or brown or marbled and have surgically or natural bobbed tails. They were bred as Farm and Ranch dogs to
help their owners with their everyday chores around the farm and ranch. Although they are called Australian Shepherds they have evolved in the United States
over the last few hundred years to what they are today.