Blue Heeler & Cattle Dog Hats

The Australian Cattle Dog earned the nickname Blue Heeler or Red Heeler from its colouring and its habit of moving reluctant cattle by nipping their heels. Wikipedia traces the breed to an early breeder who crossed blue speckled Highland Collies with dingoes, a dog that seldom barks and instinctively bites at the heel. The result is a dog that one owner guide calls "the canine equivalent of a caffeinated squirrel," that sprints the living room at 3 am, and that will herd people by nipping, whether or not there is a cow in the yard. These hats are for the people who chose that dog on purpose. Badges name the breed the way owners search for it: BLUE HEELER, HEELER MOM and RED HEELER DAD. The longer lines are the owner's confessions. CATTLE DOG NO OFF SWITCH, I DON'T HAVE CATTLE SO MY HEELER HERDS ME and ONE PERSON DOG AND I'M THE PERSON all come straight from how owners describe the breed: a lone wolf of the dog world that sticks to one human. DINGO ADJACENT nods to the ancestry, and BLUE HEELER BLUE COLLAR is for the working-class dog and the working-class household that keeps it. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear it on the ranch, the trail or the walk where your heeler is rounding up the family, or give it to the friend whose dog has never once relaxed on a lazy Sunday morning.