Tracy and Caper in their first sheep dog trial

Tracy's sheep are 125 yards away, Caper has to go either left or right, which ever way Tracy sends him, come in behind the sheep and bring them to Tracy, without her moving. Then (because she is in the novice division) she gets to walk with the sheep and Caper works them from behind. The whole idea is to reinforce to the dog (Caper) how little pressure it takes to move the sheep -- he does it with flanking moves and his presence. Caper was perfect (at least to me :-)) ) working with Tracy they get the sheep through the panels and then into the pen and she has to do it all under a certain time frame, I think it was 4 minutes.

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