What a great day!!!!
Wally and I have decided that we’d like to be able to do sheepdog demos every day of the week. We had such a good time yesterday. After doing the morning demo, which was relatively uneventful, we came back to the house,
Month: November 2009
Venison Bonaza!
Yesterday, in between doing demos, we picked up three buckets of deer organs, including the stomachs and intestines. I removed the intestines and disposed of them and packed up the livers, kidneys and hearts in separate containers. Then I removed the stomach
Demos, demos, demos.
The dogs are all flat out tired and I’m feeling about the same. I wish someone would put me in a crate so I could sleep. It all went well today and the people really enjoyed seeing the dogs work. The Charlotte
What I have to be thankful for.
Wally, he’s a wonderful friend; a very special man; one in a million. I’m blessed to have him in my life. My dogs, all three of them, even though yesterday I was ready to ship Fern off to an agility home. My
Fern
Oh, she’s testing me. The episode on Tuesday with the sheep and the buck (who is now living in quarters separate from the does and that’s where he’ll stay) shook her confidence. If I ever get another puppy, never, ever again will
Back to the drawing board
I haven’t decided yet what I’m going to do about training. I had a plan yesterday and it went south (north, west and east). Maybe it’s best not to have a plan. As I write this, I’m eating homemade yogurt with fruit,
Sometimes you have training successes …
and other times, utter failures. These three dogs are going to teach me a lot. You have Gel who is extremely forgiving of my mistakes; correcting many of them. Then there is Fern who has a shit load of eye and is
Small courses.
Just got back in from feeding the guard dogs and running the Border Collies. We ran through the large, flat field that I mentioned in my last post and it got me thinking about the small course I have set at the
The Plan …
I have to bring the pressure canner to be checked this morning at 10:00 and while I’m in that area, I need to go to Wal-Mart to pick up some soda for Wally (he’s having a holiday lunch at work tomorrow). When
Time to stop being a whimp!!!
Got out and worked all three dogs twice. Not sure who’s brain is more fried, mine or the dogs. I have found that the shedding practice, for some reason, is improving Gel’s driving. Maybe it’s just a fluke. Split is going to