oes and herding
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| My OES is a 3 year old female and definitely not a working dog, she is a pet and shows here in Mexico. BUT one night about a year ago I heard a noise out at the gate so I went out to see what was going on, there were two horses trotting down the road in the dark (it was about 8:30 at night). One was dragging a rope. We live in a small colony, way out in the country, but there is a highway about a half mile away. I didn´t want them wandering onto the highway. Thinking the horses must belong to one of my neighbors, I opened the gate to go out and grab the rope and keep the horses until someone showed up.
My OES, Margaret, had never seen a horse before, but when I opened the gate she bolted through (this is a dog that had never given me even the slightest behavior problem). She was extremely thrilled to meet the horses and immediately began herding those darn horses around the lake, totalling ignoring my frantic hollering for her to STOP! I couldn´t keep up with them on foot, so thinking both horses and my dog were headed for the highway, I ran back to the beamer and started after them. Sooo, yes OES will herd...like you wouldn´t believe! I bumped along the dirt hills at this lake until 2 in the morning before I caught up with Margaret and the horses. We made three full trips around the lake, first the horses, Margaret weaving back and forth behind them and me dead last, hunched over the steering wheel, muttering profanities. And for never having seen livestock before, I have to say she was pretty darn good at it. |
| The old English Sheepdog did get it's name for a reason!
There are some people who still keep OES as working dogs. They have an excellent herding instinct (as seen above!) and, whilst it may be argued by some that they aren't as flexible as, say, a Borde Collie, they do enter (and win) herding competitions (or so I've been told).... |
| I am very interested in a family pet as well as one that can be a herding helper as well. If anyone knows of a breeder that could help me out with this I would appreciate it. |
| Mikey...did Woof get stuffed in the tumbledrier ??....lol, that is one FLUFFY OES.
Star498....where do you live ?? |
 Hush! - you're not supposed to reveal that kind of thing!
Seriously, that picture was taken right after we'd brought Woof home from his first professional groom and bath - And I do mean RIGHT AFTER (I wanted to get a record of it before he ruined it...). It was done by a very talented (not to mention reasonably priced) lady in bedford.. |
Well he looks dead cute, reminds me of a Pink Panther sketch where PP goes into a car wash on roller skates and get wash an blow dried...comes out as a ball of fluff with a head and tail  |
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