At first I was a little afraid of going into ' the big fence' right away, but amy turned out great ( for my expectations anyway). She did need a few laps around the sheep to calm her joy of being there a little bit, but once we started, she was really obedient. She lied down instantly, which mad me REALLY happy, becouse I had so many problems with that when started with Bebi a few years ago. She kind of freezed and wouldn't lie down for minutes. She would just stand there staring at the sheep and would move stalkingly ( you know the Border Collie way) towards the sheep. So the main problem with Amy was, that she really enjoyed circling around the sheep and she took advantage of every second that I she had, to go around them. and I think that is a problem, we will have to work on when we start to herd regularly.
I guess I didn't really expect her to really work with sheep. Not at first at least. Mostly becouse she met the sheep before and it always seemed to me that she way playing with them and becouse when we were there waiting for our turn, she didn't even notice the sheep. She only spotted them when we already got into the fence. But when we stopped, I had to get her collar and take her out, because she couldn't take her eye of off the sheep. :) Unfortunately Bebi can't work the sheep anymore even though she would love too, but the last time she tried, her leg was really hurting for too long. But she did get the chance to watch the sheep, which was ALMOST as good as herding. ;) Here is a link to a video of Amy and the sheep on saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvxJGgViC2w
So that's that for now and I hope I will be good and write as much as I can! :)
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