Amyinseattle | April 11, 2010
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 [...]
Amyinseattle | March 22, 2010
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 [...]
Amyinseattle | January 28, 2010
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 [...]
Amyinseattle | December 5, 2009
Most of the time i take Molly out, we work sheep and I think: How can i be a better handler for her? i’m not seeing something. It dawned on me this morning that part of the problem is the way i’m defining these terms in my head. Follow me here: According to the Collins [...]
