I have a farm dog. His name is Bru. He is the biggest and most well tempered collie we’ve had. He is, however, shockingly poor at rounding up cows.
He lacks the collie instinct of getting behind a herd and driving them, instead preferring to run straight at them and making them scatter. His most favouritist game, is get behind a cow, bite its tail and hold on for as long as you can or until it poos on you.
He does possess a series of really useful features. He has some weird sense of being able to tell the difference between a delivery van and a van owned by members of the traveling community who may have been recceing the farm and/or looking for scrap metal. He also reacts appropriately to each.
He is also very good at hunting moles and will actively dig them out.
He is also good at putting paw prints in wet concrete, upsetting farm cats and catching red kites by their tail feathers.
Got a picce in a box somewhere, but would take ages to dig out…
On my Victor tanker sqn, my co-pilot had a gorgeous collie called Miffi. She would do lots of tricks & was very much a favourite when we were duty crew.
My 2 favourites:
“Miffi, would you rather be a navigator or be dead?” Dog would roll on her back!
“Miffi, what do you really think of navigators?” Dog would jump onto one the low /square coffee tables in
the crew room & bark her head off!
Soon! She’s only just over a year, so getting her used to hill days at lower level, but her balance is good, and seems to not want to jump off cliffs so that’s a positive!
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