The Barking Lot: June and July were good working stock months for Echo and Kant!!

The first weekend in June I headed to Spokane to work with Lynn Leach for 2 days.

My friend Heidi has a best friend that lives in Spokane so I drug her along with me.

We stopped for some photo ops at Multnomah Falls!

I got the great pleasure of staying with Gail and getting caught up!

Gail’s yard is always so beautiful

and it is so much fun spending so time with so many Shelties!!

It makes me so proud and happy to know I can take my dogs anywhere and they do great!!

I felt Echo and I finally made some forward progress with Lynn!

I cannot wait to work with her again!!

Jordana had taken Hershey so that I did not have to worry about him having to do the stairs at Gail’s house

so we detoured on the way home and went to Redmond to pick him up.

On the way we found a “Shoe Tree” so of course we had to stop and take pictures!!

We had dinner with my Mom and headed home.

What a GREAT weekend!!

2012 Sheep Camp

For years I have heard about Sheep Camp at Fido’s Farm and this year it worked out that I could go. I arrived with 5 Shelties on Sunday night

and set up our Home Away From Home!

Sheep Camp was Monday through Friday with two main instructors and 4 people helping with “practical work” stations. I came with BIG goals and HIGH expectations both I had to let go of if I was going to survive the week.

I did put both Eris and True on sheep Monday afternoon and Eris is still not ready but True was a super star.

She got to see sheep 3 times over the week and now it will be another month or so before she does that again.

Echo was going to be my main focus but since I wanted to work on a very specific issue none of the stations really worked for us. So I ended up working both Kant and Echo equal times. The last two days I finally learned a couple of things to try with Echo so we will see.

I was reminded how much I love to work Kant!!

Tuesday afternoon I took Kant out in to the very back field

where there was a large flock of sheep

and we just had a great time walking them around!

There were two campers out in that field and I fought the temptation to open their tents and fill them with sheep!!

I met some wonderful people and got reacquainted with another.

At least twice a day I took the Shelties on a big walk to the end of the field and back!

I loved watching Kant, Echo, Eris, and True play!!

Hershey was awesome and just plugged along with us!!

Tuesday and Wednesday morning I fed the ducks in one of the big fields. The previous days I had managed to avoid the pens of ducks but I took the Shelties with me to feed so now they knew there were ducks there. It was the puppies I was worried about getting them away from the ducks

but it turned out to be Hershey that LOVED the ducks.

It was funny and a bit sad Wednesday evening when we went for our walk and passed through the gate in to the field where the ducks were Hershey went straight for the ducks and I could see the pen doors were open so I knew the ducks had been moved. But Hershey was determined to see his ducks so I just watched what he would do when he discovered the ducks were gone. He walked in to the first pen, nothing, in to the second pen, still nothing then he looked at me like where are my ducks, and he hung his head and walked over to me. I did not show him that their real home was only about 100 feet from where we were camping.