Comments on: Sheeple Admit They’re Hobbyists http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2007/11/sheeple-admit-theyre-hobbyists.html A Border Collie Manifesto Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Moonshadow http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2007/11/sheeple-admit-theyre-hobbyists.html#comment-3192 Moonshadow Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:17:00 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2007/11/sheeple-admit-theyre-hobbyists.html#comment-3192 Greetings Chris! I hope you don't mind me calling you Chris. I saw that you came by my blog so I thought I check you out. When I saw your handle and that you were from Colorado I thought maybe you had an issue with water rights. ; ) But then I saw you were all about Border Collies and decided to drop you a note. My dad was born and raised in the flatlands of Colorado, Kirk/Joes area. Then after his stint in WWII he worked on a sheep ranch in the mountains. I've got a couple of wonderful pics of him on horseback at the the ranch. I guess my grandpapa gave a try at raising sheep a couple years, too. Dad isn't to fond of lamb chops or mutton. But I learned something interesting about them taking sheep to auction in those days. The sheep that were smokey grey in color sold better. The reason being that they came off the grassy slops via the train and when they'd go through the tunnels the smoke would stain them. These sheep were better quality meat. Dad also talks about a big old ewe that they couldn't keep in the their pasture, she'd jump the fence. So they tied a rope with a rock around her neck for her to drag. She STILL got to the other side of the fence! One day dad caught her on the the side of an incline running toward the fence. Right at the last minute she stopped and shifted her body in a fashion that flung the rock over the fence, then she followed. : )<br/><br/>Oh, I LOVE watching dogs work, whether they be Border Collies with the sheep or Australian Sheepdog (this is what we have a lot of around here) with the cattle. Or my pets that thought they were little people. Greetings Chris! I hope you don’t mind me calling you Chris. I saw that you came by my blog so I thought I check you out. When I saw your handle and that you were from Colorado I thought maybe you had an issue with water rights. ; ) But then I saw you were all about Border Collies and decided to drop you a note. My dad was born and raised in the flatlands of Colorado, Kirk/Joes area. Then after his stint in WWII he worked on a sheep ranch in the mountains. I’ve got a couple of wonderful pics of him on horseback at the the ranch. I guess my grandpapa gave a try at raising sheep a couple years, too. Dad isn’t to fond of lamb chops or mutton. But I learned something interesting about them taking sheep to auction in those days. The sheep that were smokey grey in color sold better. The reason being that they came off the grassy slops via the train and when they’d go through the tunnels the smoke would stain them. These sheep were better quality meat. Dad also talks about a big old ewe that they couldn’t keep in the their pasture, she’d jump the fence. So they tied a rope with a rock around her neck for her to drag. She STILL got to the other side of the fence! One day dad caught her on the the side of an incline running toward the fence. Right at the last minute she stopped and shifted her body in a fashion that flung the rock over the fence, then she followed. : )

Oh, I LOVE watching dogs work, whether they be Border Collies with the sheep or Australian Sheepdog (this is what we have a lot of around here) with the cattle. Or my pets that thought they were little people.

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