Sometimes Tsuki can be a good little sheepdog as he was the other day. He
listened, he stopped, he watched his sheep. We had a whole bunch - and
instead of being two flocks, they were one. No runners ... well one,
once, but it was brought back appropriately. We penned them and unpenned
them, and moved them from one pasture to another. It was a wonderful day.
And I was taking pictures for promotinal items for the Ranch and got a
nice one http://dogplay.com/Images_Herding/Ranch23Nov04.jpg.

That reference to the two flocks? Well if you haven't herded it wouldn't
be obvious. Sometimes when you put sheep together who either don't live
together or have two "leaders" they tend to split and go in different
directions ... which is what happened the last time we worked a large
flock. Tsuki did eventually manage to keep them together long enough to
move them from the pasture into the round pen, split off a group, then
later regroup them and drive them out to graze for the evening. But it
was more work than our recent exercises. THis last one was just fun.

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wrote:
Sometimes Tsuki can be a good little sheepdog as he was the other day. He
listened, he stopped, he watched his sheep. We had a whole bunch - and
instead of being two flocks, they were one. No runners ... well one,
once, but it was brought back appropriately. We penned them and unpenned
them, and moved them from one pasture to another. It was a wonderful day.
And I was taking pictures for promotinal items for the Ranch and got a
nice one http://dogplay.com/Images_Herding/Ranch23Nov04.jpg.

That is a nice picture! I'd like to herd someday, maybe when the
human kidlets are older, and I get my next agility dog (if I
happen to get a herding breed, still mulling it over since I'm
a year or two away from another dog).

Mary