Belle Rose Stockdogs

19/11/2025

You've got to love when they just know the job and get it done.

Ewes are all ready for the shedding clinic tomorrow!

14/11/2025

9 months old. Ace has started being added to the regular working crew. He's got really nice distance, but needs some help feeling the bubble yet omce he gets behind them. I will hopefully get some updated video soon.

12/11/2025

06/11/2025

He's maturing! Slowly, but it's coming.

02/11/2025

Heather Nadelman 's Meg getting ready for her first trial with her new partner! Thank you Sally for trusting us to find Meg her forever home 💕

01/11/2025

*Pending*
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Coal
December 2021
Neutered male
Chestertown, MD

With Wren moving to Open and a hoard of young dogs in my kennel I've decided to place Coal.

Coal's easy going nature and willingness to please means he will work with anyone. I often let my students work him and he does it without a second thought. I have no doubt someone could buy him tomorrow and run him successfully at a trial the next week. He's just that easy.

Coal is a successful open dogs with points in 2025 and the 2026 trial season. I see him easily taking someone to Nationals if they put the time in.

Coal's great with people, dogs, cats, horses, poultry, and small animals. While he's not had a lot of exposure to kids if the kids are respectful he'll be fine. His ridiculously happy go-lucky personality makes him an easy dog to travel with and have in public settings.

He's my best open trial dog and if winning was my only goal he'd be staying. However when it comes to doing some of the more challenging farm chores he's not my go-to. Especially if it involves a lot of pushing. I have not seen this small flaw effect him on the trial field although he can be slow to lift sheep if on corn. This has improved in the last year and I expect it will continue to improve over time.

Coal would be suitable for an open handler looking for an easy next dog or a novice looking to move to open.

For more info, please PM or email me at [email protected]

29/10/2025

We're home from an amazing week trialing at two of my favorite trials!

Thank you to Thad, Kelly, Donna, Russell, and Rachel for all your hard work for the PLM trial! It always runs smoothly and the ewes were so forgiving.

Thank you to Kathy, Jack, Cheryl, and Mary for hosting the Ettrick trial. This should be a "must do" trial for every handler. The field is amazing and sheep are the perfect amount of forgiving but challenging. Thank you Andrew for judging and Frances for scribing over 200 runs with a smile on your faces for every one.

Now for the dogs...

Coal showed some of his inexperience on his outruns this trip. These have been by far the most tricky fields and furthest outruns he's seen, but he found his sheep every time! He had scores of 81 and 75. His two other runs I screwed up, can't blame him.

Tripp was on point and had some respectable runs with a 71 and 73 at PLM. He then blew me away with what felt like our best run to date with an 85 in Open 1 at Ettrick.

Placement wise, little Wren-y is the star this trip. Out of a very competitive 30 dog PN class she placed 6th, bringing home her first check. I also surprised both of us by throwing her in Open 2. While we got a bit lost on the drive leading to a RT, she had an absolutely gorgeous outrun, lift, fetch. She's such a fun little partner and I can't wait to see how she matures on this next part of our trial adventure.

This trip concludes our 2025 trials, with the exception of a few novice trials.

Overall we've learned a lot, improved in a few areas, and now can hopefully train this winter to get ready for 2026 💕

15/10/2025

Entry's up!

December 6-7th, 2025 24420 Chestertown Rd Chestertown, MD 21620 Judge: TBD

15/10/2025

The boys had a great weekend at the inaugural PA Sheep and Wool Festival Arena trial in Dayton, PA!

Open 1 - Tate, 2nd
Open 2 - Coal, 2nd and Tripp, 4th

We head to Missouri this weekend for the PLM and Ettrick trials which just about wraps up our 2025 trials.

15/10/2025

4 years ago I stepped to the post for my second Novice Novice trial at Possum Hollar in Virginia. That seems like a lifetime ago!

It's amazing the places dogs can take you and the people you meet along the way 💕

13/10/2025

8 yr old Goose is available for Adoption through Mid-Atlantic Border Collie Rescue! He's well started and would make a great teaching buddy for a Novice.

07/10/2025

This past weekend we went to the lovely Montpelier Fall Fiber Festival in Orange, VA for our first trial of the 2026 season!

This trial has the best atmosphere with all of the spectators and relaxed trial environment. I enjoyed sharing the sport with strangers and even got some free ice cream out of it 🤣

We were running on 6-7 month old lambs. Saturday was a learning experience for everyone. The video below was Wren's winning Ranch run. Yup, that mess of a run won the class haha, just to give you an idea how tricky it was.

The boys were amazing in Open. They both read their sheep beautifully. Coal got compliments from the set out crew for his nice lift, and Tripp got loads of compliments for his outwork where I barely had to correct him at all through the fetch. Both boys placed and got our first points for the 2026 season.

By Sunday my handling left down everyone so we didn't have any runs to write home about but I'm more than happy with our first trial of the season.

Arena trial next weekend and then off to MO!