Life with my first Border Collie, Dan
Dan was actually offered for sale at
the Sennybridge livestock yards following the weekly sheep and cattle sale. He
had been donated to the Conservative Society fund raising event, an annual
event at the sales yard just before Christmas each year. Different farmers
and businesses donated all sorts of things to the fundraiser, hay,
an old ram, vet supplies, etc..
This young Border Collie and a bag of dog food had been donated
by a hill farmer from the Cnewr Estate. If I remember rightly, I bid
5 pounds for Dan and 3 pounds for the bag of dog food.
After I had bought him, I asked around about how to train Dan but
found that, although many of the farmers and shepherds in the area
had working Border Collies, none of them really had any ideas of
training one. "It will just start working", was the most common
answer. Dan and I struggled for many months and things did
eventually work out to a fashion.
(Border
Collie training information)
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