Some herding pictures from last week

This is Derek (the guy who was running the training course for us) working some of his dogs.
He won the Nationals with Killiebrae Laddie (262753) in 2008 ad also had Ben (220939) who was the top stud dog for a few years and ran in the national team a few times.

He is a really interesting trainer and a very quiet handler (most of the time)

We had been to his house but the weather was awful so I did not have a chance to get pictures of him working his dogs on the fells, but he gave us some demos and it was fantastic.

Distance


Driving...




Laddie -




To give you a bit of an Idea about how far away he was working him




Closer


Shedding


Single


Holding them


Letting them go


This was Fleece - I really liked her - Very pretty little bitch - but very didi






Everyone watching....(Accept Tassle - she really cannot see the point of sheep!)


Siren...very focused


....and this took all 3 days to achieve this when the sheep were around!


Thanks for looking.

Fab, I love that one of Siren all focused xxxx

Hope you had a brilliant time xxxx

I shall show OH later, I am sure he will want to be back on those hills, he was only on about it the other week....

Great pics there

lovely fotos - I love the one of laddie running flat out

Its amazing to see a dog working, i've only ever seen it once real life, when we were walking around the fields in wales, i was star struck! Brilliant pics xx

Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed looking at them

Just wonderful photos, Hannah - it's almost like I was there with you.

Thanks so much for sharing x

It was very interesting thanks

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Thanks - He was a lovely dog

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Did you enjoy your time at Derek's, Tassle? Did you feel you learned much? (Lie down )

Good piccies. Derek lives in a lovely spot. Did you do any training at his place in the hills near Keswick?

When will you have Zeff working the sheep