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Another awesome post by Patricia McConnell over on her blog The Other End of the Leash A million years ago, my first Border Collie Drift lept up and nipped a man’s nose at the Wisconsin State Fair. Even though the man was clearly not injured, with virtually not even a red spot on his nose, [...]
This past Sunday (12/18/2011) I went to an American Herding Breed Association trial held by my club and at my instructor’s place, Action K9 Sports Now to be fair to Scot we have had very little practice in the last few months due to several things including me looking for and starting a new job. [...]
Hey, not like that! This past weekend I participated in my first trial with cows rather than sheep. I have never had as much fun herding I as I did on this run. I had 12 minutes to move 4 cows from one holding pen through a couple of gates, sort one off and put [...]
Wolves are not dogs and should be treated accordingly. This should never happen. Not to dogs, wolves or horses! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/man-sued-after-hybrid-wolf-dogs-fatally-attack-miniature-horse.html
So what the hell happened? Really good question and hopefully a semi-entertaining story. This weekend (Feb. 5-6) there was an AKC trial at my instructor’s place just outside Escondido. I have not worked Scot enough in the last few months for a variety of reasons, but I managed to get out and trained the 3 [...]
Western ranchers seek new ways to keep hikers, bikers safe from the guard dogs that protect their sheep As an urbanherder, or someone that actively works around sheep I certainly understand the ranchers need to protect their sheep, but as a rather avid mountain biker I sure as hell don’t want to be attacked by [...]
I started herding a bit less than a year after I got Beag as a puppy. I had already tried obedience and agility to work with her and to make sure we had a relationship I could use to make sure I could control her under all circumstances. Building a bond where we could trust [...]
I participated in my first AHBA trial 3 weeks ago down at ActionK9Sports.com I had never done this type of trail before and I was told by my instructor that I should START with level 2 HRD. Unlike the AKC courses I have done, this was working 9 sheep to start and from a pen. [...]
Scot and I had a trial this weekend. Our very first AKC trial and 3rd trial in all orgs. We had a run each day in Course A Started, basically the beginning level in course work. We had GREAT results! The photo is most of the ‘bling’ we earned. The only item missing is a [...]
On Thursday after much prodding of my instructor I headed down to Valley Center to do some work with Scot in a large open field. After much thought I realize this was probably not the best idea. Don’t get me wrong, it was a great workout. You can get an idea of what we did [...]
