The Yarn Queen

The King and Queen (that would be me) ventured to Soldier Hollow on Labor Day to view the incrediable Border Collies from around the world.  No pictures so close your eyes and i will give you visual.  The Handler and Collie come to a starting point at the base of a quarter mile hill.  On the upper slope of the hill are 8 dog naive stubborn sheep.  Yearlings i believe that have never been herded by dogs.  The Collie is given the command to bring the sheep and at a dead run races up this slope looking for the sheep.  Finding them the dog then carefully but quickly herds them down to a gate they need to go through and then to the handler.  Upon completeing this task the dog again races up the hill to retrive another 8 red collared sheep that are herded through a different gate and then joined with the other 8 sheep.  On command the dog then herds the sheep through 2 gates.  These gates are and opening of normal gate size, then 8 foot of fence and nothing else, so the dog has to keep the sheep together and not let them go around the fence portion.  Did i mention this is done on the clock of 24 minutes.  Now the 16 sheep are returned to the handler and driven into a pretend corral where the Collie and the handler shed or try to get 5 red collared sheep to separte from the group, drive them off  and into a very small corral.  The reward for all this hard work is for the Collie to jump into a tub of water to cool off.  This is amazing to watch almost unbelievable.  Try it, if you get a chance.

First we have Johnny Cash who has grown quite a bite since last Christmas when we rescued him.   He loves everyone but wants to be top dog, and this causes him to bark way toooooo much.  But he’s a very good puppy dog. 
Then we have the demon in the dog suit, you wouldn’t know it looking at her pictures, ( she is alive)  but she will go after any dog and bite to kill.. Cash doesn’t care and he has enough fur to be pretty protected.  The Dukes sister thinks Sopie is very evil though.  Sophie tried to kill her French Bull dog.  I think it was because they are so ugly.  Just my opinon though.  Sophie loves kids and people and doesn’t shed. 

The next four legged member of the family is Hemi (as in Dodge Truck, that is correct.  She is full working Border Collie, although she hasn’t ever hearded a sheep, she try to heard the cats and children.  The cats jump over her or run away and the kids run to Mom.  She is the typical intelligent, requires lots of atttention Border Collie.    This is the house.  I don’t think there is room for even a gold fish.

I would like <a href=”http://photobucket.com/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r206/scrapart101/Thanksgiving%202006/November2006030.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting”></a>to introduce the micers of the family. This is Battman and Sonny, Cher left home and Robin is hiding in the back of the kennel. We will catch him later.  Oh here is Robin, he is just darling don’t you think?  We have not had good luck with our micers in the last year.   Jax was first, then Frankie, then Cher and Sonny although we did find Sonny at his old homestead.  All but Sonny had a fateful end.  Now I do believe that Durango has also met a bad raccoon. We have had our moment of silence and must go on for the sake of the kittens.

They brought me a mouse yesterday, good little kittens.