I had the chance to get several video clips today from our work session. Diva and I worked for about 15 minutes on Monday morning but prior to that she has been off for a month due to the holidays and travel. I should have re-read yesterdays blog post about expectations because I certainly did have mine pretty high! With all of the ewes except these 4 with tiny lambs or about to lamb my stock options are limited. These girls are pretty darn heavy and not the best for teaching the drive. I make all kinds of mistakes the more frustrated I get and as you will see Diva starts getting "soft" and clingy.
These next three clips are us doing some baby work on inside flanks. Some of it goes ok and then there are a few flubs that left me laughing. The good thing that can be seen on these video's is that Diva has no issue coming into me and pushing the stock off. This is a great start for driving but where we seem to go wrong is once she gets a certain distance away from me it doesn't feel right to her and she wants to balance and fetch them back. I know I am guilty of expecting to much so perhaps the issue is more handler related and less dog! Her "there" button still seems to be broken too ;).
So in this last little clip I am using the line to help her be in the right spot. Not my favorite technique but I could feel my frustration rising and we weren't getting any where. As we start heading back towards the camera I did drop the line, Diva gave me a few good solid driving steps and I called her off. It seemed like a good place to end it!
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