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Pyrenean Sheepdogs at work !

30/9/11

Remy on course

29/7/11

15/7/11

Celeste

Is growing up!

Pia is working on Steady

Remy is aware that Steady exsists, as a concept, but

Rarely nods in its direction!

18th/19th June

Good Luck in France!

Past her CANT test with honour!

3/6/11

Remy

And Pia

13/5/11

Pia spots the paparazzi

Remy

going well

Down!

6/5/11

Remy Mr Cool today!

Lie down!

30/4/11

Pia the young Pyrenean bitch had her first go out of the round pen!

Pretty!

Remy has been to see Nij Vyas...Did you mange to take any photos, Eion?

Maybe no time for happysnapping, but here at Glebe, at a year old,

Pia shows some interest inpreparing for her French Instinct tests.

29/10/10

Early Summer, 2010

It gives me great pleasure to reproduce this e mail from the Flints who recently tackled sheepherding in Belgium! Thanks for the pics!

Hi Jackie,

Below is link to a YouTube video of Remy from our trip to Belgium at

the end of June. Unfortunately the person who took the video had

problems with our camcorder and failed to get anything of Celeste which was a real pity as she was a little star in her sessions.

The Remy footage isn't great quality but I have managed to put most of it together now. It was a scorching hot day but both dogs did well. The

shepherd (who is actually a border collie man but has done a lot of

work with the Pyreneans) thought both dogs demonstrated a strong

instinct and had already developed some good skills. he really loved

Remy's work ethic and the fact that he worked "off the sheep" which

interestingly he thought was not usual in a Pyrenean. The sessions were

set up as you might expect, starting off with an assessment in a small

circular enclosure and then driving the sheep out into a large open

field. the field was about the size of your 7 acre field so a good

sized space. He was looking for the normal things (i.e. engagement and

level of interest, ability to balance the flock, movements both ways,

stops etc). As part of the session each dog was also given the

opportunity to engage the sheep from distance. He explained it as a

type of outrun. he wanted to see if the dogs had the interest to engage

with the sheep at distance and then to see how they approached the

sheep. He wasn't expecting any real sophistication but he wanted to see

the if the dogs firstly would engage at all from a distance and

secondly whether they approach at a good angle and come in behind the

sheep and start to lift them. A lot of the dogs just piled in and split

the sheep but as you can see from the video Remy managed to keep off

and get back into balancing.

It was a really interesting weekend and a chance to get to see about 10

other Pyreneans in action. Apart from a couple of dogs that really

showed no interest whatsoever, most seemed to fall into a pattern that

you would recognise, lots of chasing and barking, close in contact

splitting the flock but generally wanting to balance and respond to

their handler. There were 2 other dogs with previous herding

experience showing the same sort of skills as Remy and Celeste but

certainly not any better and we came away with a bit of a confidence

boost that we had a couple of good little dogs with potential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjnkj8lMVs

Regards

Eion

Click on this short one too, at Glebe Farm in Sep 09, with Jackie, sadly failing to play an accordian at the same time!

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Mirk4Work#p/u/11/_qTjekZdpAU

Click on this, Pyrenean Sheepdogs Can Work sheep!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTtOwiBXkY&feature=channel

This is the best example I have seen of a co-operating, talented, positive shepherding Pyrenean Sheepdog. Worth a look!

Below a fascinating insight into french shepherding, featuring a very tolerant flock of sheep, a patient, self confident pyrenean sheepdog, and assorted children, one of whom is wielding a coach whip against all and sundry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmV7c7tuFw&feature=related

http://www.vimeo.com/5435605

Try clicking the above a link to a pair of something small and hairy working a very large flock of ewes with lambs in the Alps. One seems tailess and short legged, the other has a fine, low carried tail that appeals to a UK shepherd...

That's a bit different! Fleur is a merle pyrenean sheepdog.

A charming little dog, with no interest whatsoever in herding, but the sheep were convinced she might have!

16/4/10 Laid down Remy, smiling handler! Remy was very good!

30/3/10

Celeste is calm on her second session, yet more committed,

and achieved a Stand There!

Remy was tough, committed, managed to 'keep off' most of the time,

and gave us several downs, this being one of his less convincing efforts, Hi, Mum.

9/2/10

A disciplined training morning!

25/1/10 Now its time to train the humans... Hold these sheep away from the fence and on to the cones in the middle of the field ...

19/10/09 Time to get Celeste off her arse and Work; Eion and border collie Joss got her circling out in the open field, after some confusion she settled to it well.