Sheepies!

Buck loves the sheep. He started herding classes in late April and got his first AKC herding title, the Herding Tested or HT on 4th of July weekend. I decided to skip getting his PT (Pre-trial Tested) the first weekend of September, mainly because he knows his stuff well enough to get it and it's not one you have to have to start the next level. So, we've started practicing for his Started level and will give it a shot next summer, just to practice and hopefully will get a leg or two in the Fall trial next year.

Really, Buck and I enjoy practice more than the trials and since the titles don't mean that much to us (they mean more to pure-bred dogs and those dogs' parents get letters after their names for having awesome kids), we aren't worried about being in a hurry to get them.

I also want to get Buck into a higher level obedi3nce class this winter, and then maybe a beginning agility class. I want to work on a couple things we have issues with, like getting him to focus more on me than on random birds, dogs, etc. I think it's that I'm not giving him good enough reasons to, so having someone else watching us will help I think. Would also like him to be able to ignore another dog when I tell him to instead of thinking every dog in the world wants to be his friend. LOL!

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