UK Herding Instinct Clinic
Shane
Just thought we would let you know that we have posted some pics in
the file section of Remy and Celeste at a recent Herding Weekend held
up here in North Yorkshire. The clinic was over three days based at
Jacqui Goulders farm just outside Pickering and was led by Carl
Borgstrom. Carl who is a shepherd and assessor from Sweden has worked
Beardies as well as borders for the last 20 years and has been
responsible for developing the Swedish herding instinct test. The test
which is more demanding than the FCI equivalent, scores the dogs on a
scale from 0-5 on four different criteria ( Level of Interest, natural
ability, mental stamina, and biddability). Of the 25 or so dogs taking
part over the weekend only a handful (5 or 6) managed to get their
herding instinct certificates and we are really proud for the breed
that two of these went to Remy and Celeste. Carl who has never worked
the breed before was really impressed with the their presence,
fearless approach and ability to think things through.
The following links are some short You Tube clips of Remy and Celeste
on their first session, unfortunately we do not have any of their
later runs which were really good. Rather stupidly we did not take any
cameras ourselves but we are gradually getting some things sent to us.
If we get any more we will post it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZcHEjORvIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkm9JBuZWJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-Jx1v_
The weekend was thoroughly enjoyable not just because the dogs did so
well but we also learned so much more about them. We can thoroughly
recommend it.
Shane and Eion
CORI...@aol.com
Thanks for sharing these with us, it was good to see. The Pyrenean Sheepdog works so different to a Border Collie, I discovered this the first time I took Ricaud down the fields when he was 14 months old. Sheep were in the opposite field and he was totally fascinated with them, their whole stance and body posture is completely different. Unfortunately the sheep did not belong to us so there was no chance of Ricaud being introduced to them but he did show great interest.Karen
Corinlea Border Collies & Pyrenean Sheepdogs
Chris & Liz Lewis
It's great to see PSDs doing what they were meant to do.
Liz and Chris
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norlyght
If anybody knows of any body running any herding workshops I would
love to try mine at it.
Tricia
On Aug 11, 10:52 am, Shane <sandytr...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Just thought we would let you know that we have posted some pics in
> the file section of Remy and Celeste at a recent Herding Weekend held
> up here in North Yorkshire. The clinic was over three days based at
> Jacqui Goulders farm just outside Pickering and was led by Carl
> Borgstrom. Carl who is a shepherd and assessor from Sweden has worked
> Beardies as well as borders for the last 20 years and has been
> responsible for developing the Swedish herding instinct test. The test
> which is more demanding than the FCI equivalent, scores the dogs on a
> scale from 0-5 on four different criteria ( Level of Interest, natural
> ability, mental stamina, and biddability). Of the 25 or so dogs taking
> part over the weekend only a handful (5 or 6) managed to get their
> herding instinct certificates and we are really proud for the breed
> that two of these went to Remy and Celeste. Carl who has never worked
> the breed before was really impressed with the their presence,
> fearless approach and ability to think things through.
> The following links are some short You Tube clips of Remy and Celeste
> on their first session, unfortunately we do not have any of their
> later runs which were really good. Rather stupidly we did not take any
> cameras ourselves but we are gradually getting some things sent to us.
> If we get any more we will post it.
>
sue morley
Well done from us, too!! Are you going to continue with more training??
We would love to know when there is another herding day also,
bfn
Sue, Parys & Chyna xxx
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Jenni Gemmill
That's excellent for Remy and Celeste.
It seems there are several of us keen to try our Pyreneans at herding instinct, I would really love to attend a session but don’t know enough about trainers of different breeds etc, does anyone else have the contacts to organise it? Or if you know of good trainers and give me their details I can try to fix a date/venue and we’ll try to get as many Pyreneans going as possible! North Yorkshire is a fair way from me (4+hrs) I don’t know where everyone lives but somewhere central would be good, or not too far from a major truck road (A1/M1/M6) and a campsite. :-)
Jenni & Bobby.
Suffolk.
From: Shane <sandy...@btinternet.com>
To: Pyrenean Sheepdog <pyrenean...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 10:52:09
Subject: [pyrenean-sheepdog-group] UK Herding Instinct Clinic
Jenni Gemmill
Hello everyone,
Following on from the successes of Remy and Celeste it seems many of us would like the chance to see how our Pyreneans work with sheep. There are few places that offer workshops, and none that I can find near the middle of the country! It’s important that we go somewhere we can trust, a bit of fun should not risk the health or happiness of our dogs. Its with that in mind that the recommendation from Shane, to go to Jacqui Goulders near Pickering, North Yorkshire, seems a good one. The website is http://www.spanglefish.com/herdingbeardies/index.asp?pageid=42249
Please would anyone interested in a w/e hopefully in the early part of next year, please email me your details, and any weekends you cant do (march-may), and preferably an indication of whether you’re 90% certain you’ll come or 30%! Just to give me an idea of numbers.
There are campsites and B&Bs nearby for those of us travelling to get there (4hrs for me!), and I believe costs are around £25 per dog per day (£5 for spectators only), not bad for a days activity.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Jenni & Bobby
From: Shane <sandy...@btinternet.com>
To: Pyrenean Sheepdog <pyrenean...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 10:52:09
Subject: [pyrenean-sheepdog-group] UK Herding Instinct Clinic
Wendy Smith
I will be 100% interested in going providing it is a weekend I am free. I will check my dates tomorrow and let you know.
Lucky you only being 4 hours away LOL. My trip will be more like 6 hours.
Wendy
Wendy Smith
I have had a look at dates March-May and so far as I can see the only weekends I would find difficult are 17-18th April (assuming that Working & Pastoral of Wales do give us classes next year <g>) and 8-9th May (PSD classes at Birmingham). Crufts is on a Thursday next year (11th March) so I will have no problems that weekend (13-14th).
Wendy
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[mailto:pyrenean...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jenni Gemmill
Sent: 07 September 2009 22:49
sue morley
Hi Jenni
Thanks for trying to organise something. Really looking forward to having a go. I could be booked everyweekend from beg April to end Nov, so will obviously just work around the dates you can give us. We are away at the end of May for the bank holiday for 2 weeks and so would not be available then. Thanks again, say hello to Bobby from Parys xxxx
bfn
Sue & Chyna xxx |
Debs
Asti and I would be interested, depending on date and cost (in the
process of moving at the moment so rather broke!). I wouldn't be able
to do Crufts weekend as I have to work for the duration, not sure
about other dates yet but can work out dates when you have some
suggestions.
Thanks
Debbie