Category: Dot
Fifteen years ago these two changed our lives
Little did we know what was around the corner. These two sheepdogs changed our lives! This photo of Dot and Glen in the boot of Gill’s car, after a January training session, brought memories flooding back to us. Once Dot (left) and later Glen came along, our sheepdog training took on a much more serious and informed nature. Gill and I had been living here… Read more.
Training my first dog, Dot
This is Dot, the herding dog that changed my life! Dot features in our Sheepdog Training Article (written in 2003). We had a lot of fun with Dot. In the early stages of her training I very nearly returned Dot to her breeder because I didn’t understand her. She wasn’t doing the things I’d expected trainee dogs to do; the things that happened in the… Read more.
Little Dot – Andy’s first sheepdog
They say you ruin your first sheepdog . . . This is Dot, a daughter of Derek Scrimgeour’s Ben. Dot was my first sheepdog back in 2002. They say you ruin your first sheepdog, and there’s certainly some truth in that. I was much too hard on Dot right from the beginning because I knew nothing about sheepdog training and I’d been told that unless… Read more.