Busy me

As I was getting ready for a lesson this morning, I worked Dare on the corner exercise and He was better at not breaking out and going to the head.

Then my lesson showed up and it went very well. This dog has not been here in a year and was hard to motivate in the past, but the owner got a new puppy and now the older dog is much keener. He even worked for me.  The puppy was really cool on sheep too. Hope they keep it up.

The livestock was still in the control pen so I worked Edge and we had another little lesson on not cutting one off and chasing it down.  Also worked on penning and lie down and call off again.  He was a star!
 And then we drove out to Greenfield to work with Denise Leonard.  I met Betty there and we both worked 2 dogs.  I wanted to work on the bigger outrun because I dont' get the opportunity.  I sent Dare first and he did a decent outrun but when he got to the top he squared it off as if there was a fence there. Uh oh  can't get rid of my fences.  We did get him to round off a bit and he was much better on the away side .  He will come in on balance on the away side and will not on the go bye side.  Interesting conundrum.

Dually was much wider but he too, squared off at the top. He was much easier to widen and round out.  We did a mock BC run and at the pen , I needed a square go bye flank and he so came in and busted the sheep around the pen.  Back to the square flank drawing board.

Home around 6pm and turned the pellet stove on because there might be frost tonight and it's a bit cool in here.  Dinner was a pork chop and it was delicious.  I was hungry.