Proud of our Mt. Governor...NOT!!!

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[Oldtimer]

[Oldtimer]

[Hanta Yo]

[Faster horses]

Hanta Yo, all that keeps Soapweed from being the perfect man (from this distance anyway), is his attitude about dogs. LOL!! His deal with dogs has been mentioned on here before~he says he likes his dog that either stays on the porch or in the house, can't remember which.

Well, no one is perfect, so guess we can give him this small concession!!

I do have to say that if your cows aren't 'dog broke' it does cause problems. My husband WILL NOT take his dog around cows that aren't used to a dog. Says it is way too hard on the dogs. Our cows, like yours, are 'dog broke.' That said, our dogs are heelers, so what goes on at your place with your Corgi, doesn't happen here.

We depend on the dogs to help us, not create more problems, as I am sure you do too. Folks that don't have dogs seem to get along fine. My husband says he doesn't know how people get along without a dog. But there are more dogs that don't mind, than do~don't you agree?

On one ranch we saw all the horses had splits in their ears. When we asked about it we were told the horses were fed in a feeder and the Blue Heeler dog would go along and grab them by the ear. Now I think that is AWFUL and would not be tolerated here. Our dogs must mind, and they do. But it takes time and patience to turn them into obedient, helpful companions.

[Soapweed]

We have one dog on the place, and she is a good old girl. Scarlett (as in O'Hara) is her name. She is half Rotweiller and half German Sheperd. She is big, gentle, and everybody's friend. Scarlett is a model of perfection until our little grand-dog (her nephew?) comes to visit. He tends to play "Eve" and seduces Scarlett ("Adam") into doing evil and vile things. Instead of eating apples or hob-nobbing with snakes, they run around naked and chase cattle.

Ringo is a blue heeler wanna-be cow dog who lives in town except when he comes here to visit. He behaves in town, but thinks he gets to rule the ranch when staying with his "grandparents". The second-to-the-last time he visited, he chased some calves through a nice barbed wire gate, wrecking it completely. His "Daddy" got to come out one night after working in town all day, to build a new gate.

The last time Ringo came to visit, he had the privilege of spending a three-day weekend locked up in a horse trailer. Of course he had bread, water, a blanket, and a woeful look on his face. My words to him were, "If you're going to be dumb, you've got to be tough."

For the record, I don't like cow dogs, dogs in the house or dogs in the cab of the pickup. Otherwise I like dogs.

[Faster horses]

Why did I know you would have a good story in response.

All of us at our house had a BOBL over Ringo!! We could just see how worbegone he looked!!! You meanie!!! LOL!!!

Say, Soap, Scarlett would be big enough to do some real damage~
why don't you post a picture of her. I've never seen a Rottweiler German Shepherd cross.

Seriously, your point of view is well-taken and I understand where you are coming from.
If I was Saddletramp I wouldn't like dogs much either after what he went though. But you do understand the dogs you both mentioned have not been taught to mind UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.

My husband can call his dogs off a jackrabbit or a deer. They listen and they mind. He spends a lot of time with them and they are eager to please him. So we have dogs, some are better than others, but they all have one thing in common. They mind. One, two or three; they all listen and stay out of trouble.

Don't know what is going to happen with Dixie, The little rascal is showing some protectiveness toward strangers already. We want her to be a watchdog, but not be fierce about it. She has a temper and is tough. I sure hope this isn't going to be a problem.

[Soapweed]

The fellow who is night calving for us wanted the second half of this night "off" so he could catch up on his beauty rest, and go to town tomorrow to do laundry, buy groceries, and send his paycheck to his lady friend. I am up conferring with him. Three cows are calving, so he is going to check them one last time and make one final report. It is 31 degrees with a breeze, so the weather is in our favor. We ran cows through the chute yesterday to give another round of Scourgard 3KC, "just in case", and will re-vaccinate the last of the bunch that is not in the "heavy lot" tomorrow. We are at the 2/3 mark at this point.

Upon further reflection and contemplation, I am thinking that real good cowdogs are very few and far between, kind of in the same league as good mules and good lawyers. In all three cases, 99% of them give the rest of them a bad name.