brookcove
Posted : 5/30/2006 11:30:07 PM
Well, everyone survived and it was a great weekend. My pupper's relatives all did us proud - her half sisters both made respectable debuts in their seperate classes, and grandma Zip went to the Championship round and finished third overall - woo hoo!
Here's what an International Shed looks like - it's an exercise in the Championship round of big trials. The object is to sort 20 sheep until only five sheep with collars remain inside a circle marked out with sawdust. If more than two sheep with a collar leave the circle you have to regather and start over! You can't touch the sheep and neither can your dog, and all the sheep will remain on the field until the last uncollared sheep leaves the circle. you don't get help from pens, gates, sorting equipment, or fences - it's just you and your dog in the middle of a fied with twenty sheep, just like this:
Catch that collared sheep!
It was in the nineties and they were allowed about 25 minutes for the whole course, including water breaks (water breaks are usually not allowed in BC trials, but the judge made a wise exception this weekend!
"I'm sitting here because you MADE me!"
To be continued . . .