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Here is ‘Rev’ facing sheep for the first time with Doug Manley. Rev is Belgain Tervuren and is less than a year old. To my semi-educated eye he looks great for a first timer. Rev is owned by Dave Musikoff.
Not that I have trained with many people, all of 2 different, but I have noticed in reading as well as training that there are basic commands that everyone uses, BUT they can differ a bit. Away to me: The dog moves COUNTER-CLOCKWISE around the stock. Two important things here. First to remember counter-clockwise is relative [...]
In my opinion of course . . . First Time at the Post From bordercollie.org Excerpt: “In 1982, Pip, my first Border Collie, and I ran our first novice/novice trial at the Virginia State Fair. Pip was a young farm dog, and I’d seen one sheepdog trial. We did not cover ourselves with glory. I’d [...]
As I have gained interest in herding I have run across a ton of terms where I had no idea what the hell they were talking about. Actually after doing this for something close to a year there are still a bunch of names and terms I have no idea what they mean. So the [...]
Here is a touching story from another dog park friend. I liked it so much I just had to post it here for all 12 of you to see. Enjoy! And thanks to Susan for sending it. -bike-guy A Dog’s Purpose (from a 6-year-old). Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old [...]
As you improve you work further and further from your dog and voice commands become problematic. Here is a video I made so I could learn to whistle. I sent the video I made for myself to Terry my instructor so she could post it on her site if she wished. When I saw her the next [...]
I thought I would take a few minutes to lay out here what I hope to accomplish with this site. This is not only to let all 5 readers get an idea of what to expect here, but to lay out publicly what I hope to make this site into. The idea came from a [...]
I have added a bunch of links to all the herding info I could find this morning. I have broken them down into categories. Events, Associations, trainers, etc. If you have anything I missed, and I know I have, please add your suggestions to the comments or drop me an email. The design, look and [...]
This is the first pass at getting this site started. I am hoping to spend some of my upcoming holiday time getting this site filled out with as much starting information on many of the resources I can get together quickly. I also hope to get some regular contributors to the site to vary the [...]