It would be nice if I could use Dare to do this but he will invariably do something stupid. So I used the young calm sensible dog Dually. Who'd thunk? He wouldn't take a flank while he was in front of me and he was hard to call back to reflank but Dare would have just dived in full speed. I did call Dually back to me and stood in front of him and asked him for a flank. He took one but didn't go deep enough to catch the ewe and lambs behind the section of fence. That's ok , I walked up and outed him and they still wouldn't come out so I walked in the got behind them. I guess they wanted to spend the night outside and I would love to let them but they are predicting rain and I would worry.There is no dry spot out there for anybody never mind little lambies.
So I got them into the barn area and closed the gate(yay snow has melted enough to close some gates)and again tried to flank him in front of me. guess I need to work on that. He was good though. no diving in and a good helper. I then let him come in the stall and be with the sheep. He didn't care , he was more concerned with the cat up in the loft. He's a good boy.
I sent in an entry for the ASCA trial in Ind in April and I filled in another for the AKC trial a few days later. The ASCA trial is am/pm and I entered both dogs. so that is 12 runs a day. Kill me now!
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