Cow Dogs

[Hanta Yo]

Thanks, ranchwife, I love you to death!

[Brad S]

Well I had a horse that bucked, so 4wheelers are better than horses?
I had Ford that overheated, so Dodges are better than Fords?

Dogs are like neighbors, you can find good or bad in either. I have a 15 year old border collie female that been through the wars. I won't tolerate a free wheeling dog, but I don't know how to pop brush without a dog. I've loaded hundreds of bulls in the pasture with my dog Susi gnashing the bull up the twine. One night I was coming home from a roping when I came upon a Sheriffs Deputy struggling to keep several hundred cows off a highway. Poor Deputy was almost frantic, I said watch this. I cut them a hole in a hay pasture and said bring them sus. It used to be every time I'd go to the flinthills, sombody would try to buy my dog. I figure the first offer is tolerable since people just don't know, but any further discussion about buying my dog after the first offer is impolite.

[Denny]

Have to agree and disagree I have seen good and bad the bad ones need to be shot period.

The good ones have a place mine follows me to the calving pasture but waits at the gate unless I need her last year had a cow take me was running for the fence when the dog showed up she saved my but that day.Also have had my cows out and can gather them off the neighbors land and drive them home her and I in the dark.

However when I help other people with their cows she can stay home she tends to screw up if there are alot of people most have no patience so the first chance they get they kick the dog hard.

I think many people who do alot of the cattle work by themselves appreciate a GOOD dog.They take lots of work you cant leave them home all the time and expect them to work when you need them.

When I got my dog we had 30 sheep would let them run the yard she would just lay on the porch until they made it to the road.I would tell her to put em away she would gather them all up and put them in the barn then come back to the porch and it would repeat all day long.She was 4 months at that time.

She wont work cows in a corral been kicked to much there.

Dogs need to obey if they dont their worthless.

Mine's not perfect but she's worth more than a few hired men and a whole lot cheaper.

[sp]

My nephew raises and trains Border Collies and finds that just because they come from the same litter doesn't make them all the same.
His neighbor has some half wild brahma cross calves he wanted to keep for replacements. My nephew borrowed them for a couple weeks to work his dogs on. When neighbor came to take them home, he parked the trailer out in the middle of the pasture and nephew got the dog out, told the guy to stand back and loaded those calves with no fences.

There are a lot of good dogs out there that would like to do a good job, just don't have anyone to train them right.