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Soapweed
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Faster horses wrote:

Seriously, I bet you both felt a huge amount of satisfaction in the way things went. Teamwork to the MAX!!

Slower is faster most times.



Yes, Saddletramp and I were rather proud that things went so well in the bull loading. That type of stuff provides our "adrenalin rush" and gives us a modified thrill. We are satisfied enough that we don't feel compelled to ride bucking bulls at the local rodeos. Wink

Hate to belabor the topic, but we did comment to each other that we wouldn't have been able to pull it off if any cowdogs were present. And I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Even a super good cowdog would have distracted the bulls, or pushed them through the feeble fence. It would have been guaranteed that something would have gone wrong. I appreciate ol' Saddletramp, and the fact that he is one of the few cowboys I've been around who agrees completely with me on this subject.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soapweed, I too, hate to belabor the subject too, BUT a REAL GOOD cowdog would have stayed waayyyyyyy back to where he/she was almost invisible, but within hearing in case you called them up.

Our dogs used to be at the top of the hill when we were at the bottom, they would be at the bottom of the hill when we were a long ways across the flat. They would get behind sagebrush and you would never know they were there. Unless you needed them and then they would come up. They never bothered cattle in a situation you were in. Now, we never used a black dog with a bushy high tail. These were blue dogs or yellow ones, bob-tailed or carried their tail low. Perhaps it is just what you are used to, and what your cows are used to.

At any rate, I still admire you and Saddletramp for what you accomplished, dogs or no dogs! Clap Clap Clap Nod Nod


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