The Border collie dynasty began for me with BlueTopaz. She was a blue merle bitch, bred from my daughter’s black and white collie Genna.
When I met Phil he was without a dog, but had very fond memories of his mother and daughter pair of Cara and Shona. It ensured that any future dogs we kept would be Border Collies.

As Topaz aged and became quite ill (She had pemphigus an auto-immune problem) we decided to get another blue merle collie. After much searching we eventually found a litter for sale. Neither of us had seen a red merle collie before and Phil was smitten with the one in the litter, whereas I wanted the blue merle that we had intended to buy. We bought both !!
Many thanks to Michele Dunn and her family for allowing us to buy Dunnorthac Sapphire and her sister Dunnorthac Ruby.
Ruby died 2.5 years later from eating a few slug pellets that she scavenged out of the bonfire ashes.
When we decided to breed from Sapphire it seemed the right time to register our own kennel prefix. We initially wanted Whinhill, the name of our house, but that was already taken. So we ended up with our second choice name of Nyumbani, which means ‘Home’ in Swahili. Sapphire had it added to her name and is now officially Dunnorthac Sapphire of Nyumbani.

Our dogs have 5 acres of garden and paddock to run around in and this outdoor country life suits them very well.