Leaning Tree Australian Cattle Dogs & Border Collies: August 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Tory x Ricky Puppies - 3 1/2 weeks old

Tory x Ricky pups arrived on July 20th, 2011

2 Males and 5 Females

Tory is a daughter of Tom Forrester's Pete and McCall's Jessie

Ricky is a son of our Jake and Vicki

Tory was handled by Bob Johnson of Tingley, Iowa in the Nursery Division of the 2011 National Cattledog Finals where she placed 9th

B/W Females

Tri-Color Female

B/W Females

Tri-Color Male

B/W Females

B/W Male

B/W Female

Tri-Color Female

B/W Female & B/W Male

B/W Female

Tri-Color Male

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Leaning Tree Nap (Dixie x Ricky) - 6 months old

Nap is one of our 6 month old pups by Ricky out of Dixie. He is just getting started in training, today's session began by capturing two hogs on the loose. This was Nap's first expirence outside the training pen. He is available to a working home, sport or pet home, we will continue his training until sold. Nap should be an all purpose stock dog, he has worked anything that we have put in front of him including the calves.

Heading in the right direction

Making progress

Score!!!!

Wayne let Nap do this job on his own other then to get his attention initially onto the pigs.

After the pigs were back in their pen Wayne took Nap to a 16' x 16' holding pen with some lambs and ewes, this is the first time that Nap has working in this small of space