Herding demonstration (7 photos)

Great series. Those Border Collies are amazing dogs. I hope that the breeders in the future will consider this breeds working abilities and not just turn it into another show dog just to please the judges. Your pictures really shows the talent these dogs have.

 

As long as we have sheep farms in Great Britain, the shepherds will need Border collies to handle the stock. Good working dogs are valuable; the best, which win sheepdog trials, are very valuable indeed for breeding.
I have seen demonstrations like this - they are fun and interesting, so I like these photos: but they aren't the real thing :wink:
Last summer I went to a sheepdog trial. The competition lasted all day and was a very tough test for the team of shepherd and dog (or pair of dogs) - a challenge to photograph, but fascinating! I hope I'll do the same in August this year.

Alan

 

Thank you for the images and the great demonstration and explanation of thier movements.
Nice job
Have any more pics to share

 

Love the border collies

 

yikesss Pigs get darn big.. I would like to see that.

 

Gretchen :


Nice series.

One thing that I very clearly recall from living in the UK was watching the herding competitions on the Beeb (BBC). What's also clear in my memory was that these shows were in prime-time !

Some days, I do miss living there "over the pond"...



John P.

 

Yes, 'One Man and His Dog' ran for many years (with woman shepherds too) - but I'm afraid it was cancelled several years ago :frown:

I hope you can get to that trial, Gretchen.

Alan