Herding dogs in the historical village Nyvang 20-21 May2006.

By Karen Bechmann

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Team Egemosen by Anne Egede Olsen has for a long time been working for creating an event, showing a variarity of different herding dogs and their working skills. She has involved a lot of her herding students, training us several times a week, helping us to get into a level where we had some skills to show. So finally the day came.

Anne with helpers have been working for days and nights to bring down all the equipments and sheeps to the village, We started early Saturday morning to set up the hole area with tents and roundpins to frame the herding work.

First part of the program was preassigned dogowners, that wanted to see if their dogs still had the herding instinct. First participant was a 2 years old Bouvier des Flandres, who had never been on sheeps before.

In the beginning it was curious but not very interested but after 3 minutes that picture had completely changed .

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A PROUD DOG OWNER.

Next an experienced herder came with a youngster that she did not know how to control.

And with all the experience and knowledge Anne has gathered through the years she was able to give valuable hints how to train this specific dog.

After only 10 minutes of training the dog started to follow the herder and the beginning of a very constructive cooperation started here in Nyvang.

One of the most important equipments for herding training is a enthousiastic and inspiring trainer.

I think the pictures speaks for them selfs.

Lunchtime in the tents

Showtime

Then it was time for the herding show. Not all breeds was represented but we had a good variarity. Despite cold and a bit rainy weather the audience showed a big interest in our show.

Welsh Corgi Cardigan

Starting with 2 corgies, First the son and then the mother. Unfortunately we only have picture of the mother but her son did very well.

With my Dusty it looks on the pictures as it went very well, put how pictures can lie :-)

Actual we had the strongest mental fight that day regarding to who decides. I will not say that I definately won, but she did not get my sheep.

Aussies

Here Aussie working, the distance to sheep again shorter than with B.C.'s

Groenendael

Guardian and herding dog. Works by keeping the sheeps within a certain area, and gives signal in case of unusual incidents.

Border Collie.

And of course we also have a B.C. on the team, here typical preditor bodyshape and this is a very strong eyed B.C. working more longdistanced from the sheep.

Kelpie.

Here is out Kelpie, an extremely easy learner and well trained. Kelpies works closer to sheep and are very fast.

BUT

OK OK OK
here Speedy Conzales warming up

BENNY, only herding Pyrennes herdingdog in DK,

we believe.

talking about speed, I thought that corgies were fast but this is nothing compared to this little fellow

and the sheep knows him so they are far away in the start of any training session.

Again a dog that works very close to the sheep.

Collie.

And last but not least, as they certainly still have the instinct.

Collies are working in a more slow pace with elegance not loosing speed when it is needed. Guardian and herding dog. Works by keeping the sheeps within a certain area, and gives signal in case of unusual incidents.

Many Greatings and thanks to