The Raw Product

I found another fun video for educational purposes. This was taken when Diva was just 7 months old. It is only our 2nd time working sheep "alone" (without trainer). Diva's first exposure came at 13 weeks old and from there we did one lesson a month with a somewhat local BC trainer. Once I got permission from the sheep owner to rent time on the sheep and work on my own I started doing that and moved away from taking lessons. It certainly wasn't because I knew what to do on my own but I didn't like where the training was headed and I was seeing things in Diva that worried me. She was about to hit a natural fear period for young Aussies and the "rules" of stock work were causing her to do more avoidance behaviors like eating poop and bombing off. My concern was that she would turn off altogether and since I was now officially bitten by the stock work bug I didn't want that to happen.

So in this video we have a very young pup and a handler that has only ever worked sheep 4-5 times. This is the raw product!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP76ia-Y4QQ