This was an outdoor show for three days, and I got to hang out with all of my friends! Which… is ok, because we got absolutely nothing! 10-7 – Mazikeen showed to Mrs. Linda Clark, and got nothing! 10-8 – Fiddle showed to Bill Shelton and got nothing! 10-9 – Mazikeen showed with Alyssa and … More Devon/Montgomery Show
October wasn’t quite as exciting as September, but it started off at Flying Bucket Farm, and got better from there! October 5-8th – Hatboro/Devon/Montgomery Terrier Show October 13-15th – West Friendship Maryland October 21-22nd – The Caves of Missouri October 23-28th – Cow Camp at Larry’s House
After Jan left, we invited our friends Zoe and Willow out to practice all sorts of fun things! Holding and walking into pressure, driving, fetching, and moving cows through panels! Ukulele is the blue one, and then from top to bottom, Chunky, Rory, and Mazikeen Ukulele is gaining some confidence (video here), Chunky is trying … More Post Jan Time at Flying Bucket
After the ASCA Trial, we had a few days of work with Jan Wesen. We did a lot of pressure work, stuff in the packed pen, and helped my dogs understanding fundamentals that will build into bigger things. Participants, Mazikeen, Chunky, and Fiddle, with Rory making a fun little guest appearance!
Fiddle was put in charge of getting the cows out of the bottom of the barn at the beginning of the day and put them up into the sorting pen, and then help push, sort, and split our groups into the proper smaller pens. Then, when the time came, it was her job to take … More ASCA Trial Take Pen Work
It is one of my favorite places on earth, after all! This trip we were getting cattle ready for the ASCA trial! This includes trying to figure out which groups that we want to work together, getting cows fetched to drive. This starts in the small pen (video footage here), then goes into the arena … More Back to Flying Bucket Farm!
Once again, I love Illinois in the Fall! I had two places in this Dave Viklund Clinic this fall, one for Mazikeen, and the other split with Chunky, Fiddle, and Uke. Once again, Mazikeen and I worked on keeping her shoulder off the stock, and switching to driving back to gathering. Chunky, it turns out, … More Dave Viklund in Illinois!
One of my favorite places on earth is Agility at the Farm in Campton Hills, IL. I come up there as many times a year as I can get in! And this last year, they installed a dock for dock diving events! I have never worked on a dock with my dogs before, and I … More Trying out Dock Diving
I had no idea that there were some amazing sandstone canyons at the Starved Rock State Park, right on the Illinois River! The campground was practically empty (not so great for cell service and wifi here), and we were able to walk several of these trails without actually seeing another soul!
The area just outside of St. Louis is just marvelous! Mazikeen and I were developing some distance on these full sized, angus cows. Working on gathering, fetching, switching from driving to fetching back to driving again, and working the full length of the arenas with Dave Viklund. I need to get over several of the … More Dave Viklund in Missouri!!!!!
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