Diva did what Diva does best (ok, one of things she does best ;-)) which is go out and settle light stock. She may lack grip and not be super stylish but she can bring calm and peace. For these sheep the bubble was big and they couldn't tolerate over flanking. In both runs Diva had decent flow, the sheep walked, Diva walked, we made all of the obstacles with all of the stock, and had controlled re-pens. The one area I managed to mess up both times was coming from panel two to the center pen. Diva had the sheep nice and calm at the second obstacle and as they came through instead of telling her go bye get around I told her away get around...derp! So what I ended up with was the sheep coming through panel two and then Diva catching their heads and holding them on the fence until I had the good sense to send her the proper direction! Totally not her fault as she did exactly what I asked but it lost us the chance for that picture perfect line from obstacle two to the center pen and it made us have to actually work a little more to get them in the pen (which we did :-)). You would think after all of this time I would be able to know my go bye's from my away's but sadly that isn't always the case, lol. So we ended up with a score of 100 for the first run and a 113 for the second.
Did I mention how much I love my dog? Only worked 3 times in the last 5 months and still manages to put up decent scores! That'll do Diva!
Ok, so I can't have a blog post without a picture, right?! Nancy, Spunk, Kelly, Singe, Rae, and Catcher. The black bi working dogs of the Mid Atlantic ;-). Love you all!
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