Ben is starting to live up to his name! At four months he is now 30 pounds and all leg! He runs just as fast as Jet and Ted now, and is quite a jumper too. My friend held him yesterday so he'd put his ears up for a couple of photos. I just love his ears right now - they are huge like Ted's, but are both up, more like Jet's giving him a nice alert expression.
He has Jet's head shape and facial expressions too - with this very, very serious look mastered. But his markings are so funny - I tell everyone he is my Picasso pup - it looks like Picasso painted his face into some abstract version of a Border Collie, blaze askew and nothing matching.
Here he is standing... he is sort of like a leggy little colt right now...and all of his tri markings are very visible too.
Here I am holding my Big Ben pup. It's hard to believe I carried him around on the palm of my hand last July.
I gave a tracking class yesterday morning and Ben did a little serpentine. You can see he already knows he is about to use his nose as he approaches the scent pad. He is all business like his mama.
At the scent pad, he laid down on his own, it is not something I asked him to do, then he strained to go forward after lying down in the scent. Honestly, what a smart boy!
Below, he is going from footstep to footstep. He's such a calm, serious puppy. I love working with him!
Later, he tried to follow a track I had run with Caden. If I had him on a longer line, it would have been fun to let him try it out... but I was cold and damp by this time (3 hours of teaching!)
It is so fun to get out with Ben now. Of course, I wish I had some sheep for him, but we'll be making sure he gets to sheep when the time is right. This pup will be a stockdog!
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Looks like a great lad :-)
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