Molly and i went to what is becoming a regular cattle lesson today. Unlike last lesson, where i had flat-dog… today we had a wonderful little thinking dog and variations of Bill the Cat. Before you get mad at me for poking fun at my dog… i love Bill the Cat and her little Bill like episodes. More importantly, she really was fantastic. Her first time in the pen she had a little episode. But we reset, slowed down and [...]
Tag Archives: Eye
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Apr
11
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Bored to nap…
Today was another day of Hitting for the Cycle. To review: Hitting for the Cycle is how we’re teaching Molly the aspiring sheepdog to make small flank movements instead of big (fast) sweeping gestures all the time to move sheep. So if I and the sheep are in the middle of the circle and sooner or later, Molly should be stopping on each of the points.Someday. Today was not a note of perfection, but we made a lot of progress. [...]
Mar
22
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Back on Track
This really should be titled “if i’d just shutup, things would work fine”, but that’s a little too self deprecating even for me. I spent Sunday down at Margi Floyd’s house helping to trim hooves, see her new beautiful place and admire her brand new lammies. The lambs are at that age when they are better than TV. They’re rearing up, butting heads and chasing each other about the pastures. It’s pretty cute. The moms are pretty cute too. However [...]
Jan
28
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driving… by accident
It seems that in all the stockdog books and videos, people walk out into the field with the intention of accomplishing a goal a particular way and then do it. There are always issues, but the way that they’ve decided to accomplish something always seems to work. Which is why i’ll never be able to write a book about stockdog things. I come up with a plan of how to train a skill and after much arguing and fussing about, [...]
