Sheep Dog Fun

For Labor Day we went to Midway to enjoy some sheep dog herding. I would recommend that to anyone. They boys got bored real fast and I could have stayed longer...Here are some fun shots of the dogs. I also watched some dogs herd some ducks. That was fun.

The dog was let go and had to run up a mountain side to fetch the first batch of 8 sheep on the "first lift". Bring them through a gate and down to a certain point.

Here is another activity that you could watch. That was fun too.

Next the border collie ran up on another side of the mountain and fetched another set of 8 red collared sheep, guide them through another gate and bring them to the first group of sheep.

Then the dog gathered all 16 sheep and brought them to the farmer. To get the most points you had to keep 5 red collared sheep and discard the rest. The sheep like to be with their friends so they always wanted to run to the other group. The dog's job was to keep the sheep in front of the farmer. The farmer would select the ones and try to separate them to another section of the yard.