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08/13/2024

Morning commute was light traffic. Peaceful walks up to the day grazing pen.

08/06/2024

Little Chip getting a quick taste of sheep at 3.5 months old. Very happy with what he shows! Confidence, calmness, style, a good amount of eye.

08/05/2024

Lessons have started up again, we have a 50x50 starting pen, a 5 acre fully fenced field, and a 17 acre field work pasture.

07/17/2024

Thinking of having a field trial practice day at our new property: 17 acre field, pickup off horseback for those who want to try or practice. Farm flock ewes and lambs. 200-250 yard outrun. Let me know if there’s any interest and I’ll start building infrastructure!

06/09/2024

Looking for a LGD for our small flock. Any litters out there?

05/30/2024

Roadside grazing under supervision.

05/25/2024

Beach day for Wren at Fork Lake, Ab.

04/15/2024

Evenings grazing the new growth and some of last years remnants pasture.

02/20/2024

If trainers and handlers thought of the lie down as a gift that the dog gives you, they would ask for it differently. Does your dog run through your lie down? Are you demanding compliance? Or are you asking for a gift? There’s a difference, especially to your dog.

01/20/2024

Our annual Beginner Clinic!

01/17/2024

Lessons will start again this Sunday! Hope everyone made it through the deep freeze with all fingers and toes intact!

01/11/2024

What on earth can you do with your herding dogs in this weather? Lots. We work on our ‘out’ command when they’re in the house. We work on and reinforce the ‘lie down’. When we do bring a dog in with us to feed we demand gentle stockmanship and attention to flight zone so we don’t stress anything out in -35C temps. We might also let them enjoy a few couch naps in front of the wood stove…

Enjoy your dogs! It’s why we have them.

01/09/2024

All lessons on hold until this weather warms up! Stay warm and keep the frost off your face!!!

01/06/2024

Gryff and a frosty afternoon.

12/31/2023

One of our lesson dogs, ‘Keeper’, after a very satisfying afternoon!

12/28/2023

Stretching Wren out a bit on a beautiful winter afternoon. These wethers are so nice to work solo, they come in fast but they stand quiet for a lift.

12/28/2023

Wren. Granddaughter of Tanhill Alex.

12/16/2023

Not every day feels like a success with a pup. Today did. Wren shows some skill working this single wether away from the flock.

12/12/2023

Took a page from Martin Black’s book and set up an “A” pen for the lesson clients. Anyone else using crossover techniques from the working cow horse world?

12/10/2023

Todays lesson dogs get to come up against these 3 thugs!

11/26/2023

This is Griffs third lesson, and he is absolutely a changed dog! He was a wreck on lesson one and lesson two, lots of chasing, gripping, hanging on and going for rides. He’s still a very independent dog, but today his owner got to take him for a spin in our small pen.

11/23/2023

Willow says she’s ready for it to start snowing any time now!

11/20/2023

The best dogs deserve a little couch time every now and again.

11/14/2023

This is Ferne and her dog Keeper, I like this video because it shows how a softer dog handles pressure. In this case the pressure is me standing on the side she was asked to go to to gather the sheep. Keeper is a great dog and we love having her out to hone her herding skills!

11/11/2023

Krista runs a few Border Collie/Alaskan Husky dogs on her kicksled team. Here’s one of them. This just goes to show that you need all the puzzle pieces to line up to get a job done. Nice work Bohdi, but don’t quit your day job. 😂

11/09/2023

Starting to ask Wren to use some inside/unnatural flanks. It’s hard. The switch needs to flick from gather to drive. From balance to unbalance. It’s a start, the beginning of a long journey.

11/04/2023

Willows first run at the Lloydminster Stockdog Club’s Fall Classic Sheepdog Trial.

11/02/2023

The three new wethers are here (the three in the front) so our ewes can take a much needed lesson break and get bred!

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Morning commute was light traffic. Peaceful walks up to the day grazing pen.

Little Chip getting a quick taste of sheep at 3.5 months old. Very happy with what he shows! Confidence, calmness, style, a good amount of eye.

Stretching Wren out a bit on a beautiful winter afternoon. These wethers are so nice to work solo, they come in fast but they stand quiet for a lift.

Not every day feels like a success with a pup. Today did. Wren shows some skill working this single wether away from the flock.

Starting to ask Wren to use some inside/unnatural flanks. It’s hard. The switch needs to flick from gather to drive. From balance to unbalance. It’s a start, the beginning of a long journey.

Willows first run at the Lloydminster Stockdog Club’s Fall Classic Sheepdog Trial.

Wren. Becoming quite a hand. We spent the first half of the session driving, ended it with a few gathers and some circling. Nice fall days like today are just incredible!

Tried something new tonight and put Wren onto a single sheep. It took a little bit to get her on board but she clued in eventually! She’s still young (10 months) and only gets put to sheep once every few weeks, the rest of the time she’s allowed to just be a dog!

Work on one thing. In this case, the outrun. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is to let things go. Let the flanking go when the outrun was so nice. Reward the dog with the sheep. This is Rip. 15 months.

Willow helped out at a friends branding this weekend, and while she’s no cattle dog, she showed some grit that I didn’t expect!

Moving the woollies to a new pasture.

A bit of fenceless work for Wren tonight. Asking her for some small outruns and gathers and getting her to focus on all 24 head in the flock. She has a tendency to leave lambs behind… it’s a bit smoky and very hot during the day so we wait until it’s cooler in the evenings to put some training time in.

Step 2: get her doing a few small jobs and see where she needs some support!

This years lamb crop.

Rip has been on the back burner for a while now. He just had his first birthday and is really keen to start helping out!

A little Wren update, she’s out to work doing small jobs! I had to move the electric netting so I just let the sheep go loose, and they made their way over to our neighbours property! I didn’t really think Wren would be able to leave my side and do a little outrun but she surprised me. At the end she dropped a few of them, but we’ll take the whole experience as a win!

This is the longest outrun Willow has done, 250 metres, and the sheep are sooooo heavy. The whole flock seen here is 27 sheep and they’re happily grazing on the new grass. It’s a long video, but I’m happy to share what this little dog can do.