On Dec 26, 9:22*am, " wrote:
On Dec 25, 10:31*pm, Larry L wrote:



BTW, as a dog trainer you might be interested to know that my young
Border Collie's father won the National Sheep Herding championship
this year. I wish I had room for some sheep because Deets is a
natural.


that IS cool ...... most people don't understand just how special and
unique dogs that truly excel in any field of real work actually are,
compared to the average pet quality animals ..... as unique in their
species as great human athletes and scholars are in ours. I've
trained a huge number of dogs and been exposed closely to hundreds
more, all animals that the owners were very serious about for
competition ..... I can count on one hand the really exceptional ones
in that large group ( and importantly almost all in the group WERE far
about average in the overall spectrum of dogs ... )



Have fun on your trips ....