Sheep dog

[Keepers]

im in somerset area

can i ask were you saw it advertised to?
Thanks

I’m probably not too far from you, but I currently only have young high amount of work dogs, but if I hear of anything I think suitable I’ll let you know

equally if you ever need a hand with anything dog wise or puppy wise I’d be more than happy to lend a hand

 

[The law of sod]

I’m probably not too far from you, but I currently only have young high amount of work dogs, but if I hear of anything I think suitable I’ll let you know

equally if you ever need a hand with anything dog wise or puppy wise I’d be more than happy to lend a hand

Thanks, thats a kind offer

 

[Bobthebuilder]

https://www.facebook.com/625330517/posts/10156546172795518

World record smashed again by Emma £18.000 Guineas

 

[johnspeehs]

https://www.facebook.com/625330517/posts/10156546172795518

World record smashed again by Emma £18.000 Guineas

Surely cant have gone to a sheep farmer or else I'm going very wrong somewhere????

 

[Nithsdale]

Surely cant have gone to a sheep farmer or else I'm going very wrong somewhere????

Trials dog, never a worker.

You don't get many proper working dogs at these sales

 

[Spartacus]

Probably off to America, was a phone bidder anyway.

 

[Gedd]

Probably off to America, was a phone bidder anyway.

Yep heard from a trial man off to usa

 

[johnspeehs]

Well done to Emma anyway, She is making quite a name for herself, if I paid that money for a dog I'd expect to be able to go on holidays for a month and leave it to look after the whole place.

 

[Nithsdale]

Well done to Emma anyway, She is making quite a name for herself, if I paid that money for a dog I'd expect to be able to go on holidays for a month and leave it to look after the whole place.

Aye, you can't knock her for what she does!! She is bloody good at it.

Trials dogs are a different world to working dogs - just like the difference between pedigree and commercial sheep...



Sadly the public just see the headline and think us farmers are all trading at these prices ?‍

 

[neilo]

One of my dogs here is an ex-trial dog. I’ve brought her on to be a great catching dog, which is the only reason she’s still here tbh. She is so set on performing a great outrun, that I spend the whole time calling her back in when I’m driving a mob of sheep anywhere (still, after 4 years here!), while my other working dog happily drives them properly. I’d avoid a ‘trial’ dog now, let alone pay daft figures for one...

 

[Gator]

if I paid that money for a dog I'd expect to be able to go on holidays for a month and leave it to look after the whole place

And drive the quad and gator and open gates

 

[Keepers]

And drive the quad and gator and open gates

And make a good cup of tea in the winter and crack open a cold one for me in the summer

 

[unlacedgecko]

Well done Emma. Great result for her and clearly someone thinks the dog is worth that price.

However, for a sh!t kicker like me, b would such a dog add £17,900 more to my business than the current rough x bred bitch I have now? I suspect not, especially as my business is sheep production and contracting, not dog trialing or breeding.