Ignorance is Bliss

[sclmarm]

Back to school with kids yesterday!  Where did the summer go!  It's still to warm and I'm so looking forward to fall and the cooler temperatures!  So done being hot!  This afternoon it was 80 degrees in my classroom.  Yuck!

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[talesofmyboys]

School, already! Yikes! I am glad you and Rooster have kept plugging along. I think people are too quick to judge young dogs and not give them a chance to grow up and gain confidence. I've seen what people think of as "super star" youngsters flash out and not make good Open dogs or they don't last very long in Open. Are you in Sonia's trial and then Trailing? Good luck, I wish I could be there! Hopefully Beckit won't kill herself before I get the chance to meet her. Knucklehead border collies! LOL

[sclmarm]

We go back to school in August, but we’re out at the end of May. I love not going half way through June!!

I agree that people pass judgement to soon. Rooster is a weirdo in that he’s pretty loose eyed, but when he really needs eye, he has it. He also sits like a meerkat half the time😝🤣. It’s been kinda amusing and it’s been motivating. I entered Sonia’s, but haven’t heard either way. It’s confirmed we’re in Trailing the Sheep. I wish you were going to be there too! Are you going to Catbird?
That Beckit is something else! What a ding dong!

[talesofmyboys]

Yes, we got into Catbird and then I will enter Ron Green's trial at the end of October. Fingers crossed we get in that one as well.

[sclmarm]

Make sure you write about Catbird!! I’m interested to hear about what he comes up with! Any tips about Trailing the Sheep?

[talesofmyboys]

I think the trial field for Trailing is further up the valley than when we were there but the field was pretty straight forward. Since Rooster is looser eyed, the range ewes should like him. If he stays off of them and out of their eye, they should move off of him pretty well. Don't flank him into their eye and set up a fight because those big girls will just stop and stare a dog down. Good thing he has been working cows so these sheep won't seem as huge to him as they did to Davy. LOL

[sclmarm]

Thanks for the tips! I've never had him back down from a sheep and he has walked a big girl and her lamb back one step at a time, but he will flank off if I ask, so we can try again. It'll be interesting. A friend up in New Meadows has big wooly girls. Hopefully we can get up there to give them a try.