Gwen
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, 10-15-2013 at 03:50 AM (5774 Views)
The new pup, Gwen, has arrived. The house is a tip and has a slightly unpleasent fragrance, we are tired due to the howling in the night. However, I think it is important that she lives in the house for a week or two so she knows she belongs.
I can just about get the sheep jobs done with Meg but she'll only ever be a stop gap and then a yard dog - I just can't trust her - she sets off to round up some sheep and I can't be sure she'll come back -or stop when she needs to. She won't keep connected to me while working and her work has a kind of desperate single minded quality about it - she could be the only sheepdog I've ever known who hates her job.
Nelly has reached her peak of skilled sheep doggyness, but she can't sustain it for very long before those painful hips kick in and slow her down. The sheep are beginning to realize this and are planning some anarchy.