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AJ earned his Barn Hunt Master title. He did it with first place in all five legs. There were two trials tonight. The first trial, he was busy sniffing the smells of the intact females who were running all day prior to Master (In Barn Hunt, the trials are usually run Instinct, Novice, Open...

AJ earned his third leg of five required towards his Master title with a High In Class. His run was 2:41 of 4:30 allowed. Master class is where judges throw all their tricks at you. It's the same course for dogs going for their first Masters title as it is for dogs going for their multiple...

Herding is an expensive dog sport. You're not only renting a large area of land, but a flock of live animals for the duration of your lesson. It's not a cost that's shared with other students, as you and the dog work alone. I offset that cost by helping out on the sheep farm whenever I can. I...

My Sheltie Sabrina doing a seventy five yard fetch and penning about thirty sheep in a two minute video. One ewe didn't want to go in the pen and while Breeny was getting her some of the other sheep made a jail break. But she got all the sheep penned. The next 15 second video is Sabrina taking...

AJ is learning the basics of herding. He's learning to work on my command and not to chase the sheep. The WALKUP command is to walk up to the flock. It's used to put gentle pressure on the flock to move them, and will be used eventually in shedding a few sheep off from the flock. I tell him to...

AJ earned his Barn Hunt Open title, RATO, this Saturday. In November, he earned his Novice title in the first trial, so I moved him up to Open in the second trial in which he earned his first leg. He earned his second and third legs for his title this weekend. He got High In Class in all three...

Sabrina turned seven today and we celebrated by herding sheep and ducks. I made a few videos. The sheep were very frisky because it was 27 degrees and windy. They ran away from us. Sabrina runs after them, turns them around and brings them back to me. I didn't want them to run away again, so...

My Shetland Sheepdog Sabrina and I had a great weekend at herding trials. Sabrina won my first ever High In Trial (over 30 years showing) and earned her Herding Started title. She had eight runs with five qualifying scores. She had bad luck aided and abetted by bad handling when the wind blew...

I did something I've wanted to do for decades, show in Brace Obedience. Brace is very rarely offered and I was fortunate the Doberman Pinscher Club of the Tappan Zee offered Brace Obedience this year. The show chair was very gracious when I asked for Brace and included it in the offered classes...