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My name is Donna Brinkworth. Four years ago I moved to Alberta from Northwestern Ontario. I recently completed the requirements to be a CKC tracking judge for TD and TDX and will now work on becoming an urban tracking judge, as it is one of my passions. I've also become involved in the sport of Schutzhund as a member of the Calgary Schutzhund Club, and my boy Caden is showing a lot of promise in this exciting sport. All I need is some land and sheep for the Border Collies to be completely happy in Alberta, and we are working on that! This blog honours tracking, herding and life with the dogs who are my teachers and who bring so much joy into my life. It started out as a training blog for my tracking students. You can check those archives, back in 2005. Over time I have used this blog to journal my own training, share information, and most recently discuss my personal journey since moving here.

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25 September, 2011

Ben sees sheep at my Calvin Jones lesson today... (from afar)...

Michelle and I headed down to Airdrie today for another lesson with Calvin Jones who is here from Wales for a week. Ben watched for awhile. He was fascinated by those white things! He said, "Hey, what are those white things out there? I LIKE them!" 



And, he is completely silent. He just watches. He's the most calm dog - he takes everything in. I call him an Old Soul. He hangs with the older dogs, so he is not really puppyish.

How do I get in there?

Michelle introduced her 8 month old Canaan Dog Rook to sheep. He was great, gathering and heading them, bringing back ewes if they split off. I am sure Michelle will post pictures and video I took with my iPhone on her website, which is on my list of handy links - Sufat Sheleg Canaan Dogs of Raven Alberta.


Here is a little video of Rook working in the pen




Ted worked today too, but we got no photos of him, as we went way off into the upper corner of the field, which was too far for the iPhone, and my memory card on my camera was full! :(((

As usual, Calvin was great to work with. Thank you Calvin!

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