Puppies and Sheepsies

So Tuesday was my birthday, and it was about the most perfect day I could have had. Lazy morning, then we needed to go out to the lake to cut some poison oak so we swung by Sandy Ogg's to expose the kids to sheep. Sandy's very kind - she hosts sheep and agility clinics for people on Wednesdays for free. Her husband came out to help us set up and away we went.

While I do not have good timing, and this was definitely not a training session, it was pretty cool:

Daca:

I love how she turned on really fast - and what a nice sense of group she has. I couldn't get her to take them off the fence though. I think she was too intimidated for that. But a nice showing.

Rippa:

Rips took a second to figure it out - which, knowing her personality, I kind of expected. I finally got impatient and split them, which she clearly found quite fun. Oops? Splitting sheep's not a big deal to me, though. She'll figure out it's much nicer to keep them together when we really start to train them.

And then it was time to go back to the lake:

SHAKE OFF!

Rippa doesn't like getting wet and will find any kind of sand to roll in:

It's a good thing we're friends with the rangers and I can hose the beasts off after stuff like this!

Hey look, it's littermate photos:

EMMA!

And Deedles Mc Reedles!

Ever the worried thinker-face. :)