International Shedding Clinic

This past Saturday I went with Julie and met up with Robin and Dan at an International Shedding clinic with Tommy Wilson. I was fortunate to be able to go audit, and had an absolute ball. I always watch International Sheds at trials on the edge of my seat, and it was nice to be able to begin to have some sort of understanding without the pressures of a trial situation. Shoot, if I'm truly honest it was nice to not have the pressures of trying to do it with my dog but to be able to watch and learn.

I usually manage to take a few things home from a clinic, somehow only being able to absorb a small number of things at one time. Here are the four things I took home from this one:

1. Watch the sheep you want to keep, but don't look at the ones you want to let go
2. Sometimes you do what you have to do to save it, even if it means losing a couple of points
3. If you turn the ones back you want to let go too many times they'll not want to go
4. If you turn the ones back you want to keep very assertively they'll think twice about trying to go next time

It was a fun time, and since the Small Dog was one of the chosen three who got to go, he had a blast of a time. Dan King kindly took the two pictures in this post, thanks Dan!