Thank ya'll. I am really looking forward to having a buddy. I hope one of them takes to me and the RTV over the 4 whlr .
Dennis you are sure right. Don't you just love the way a pup smiles at ya.
When everyone else is complaining, they just give you the "look" with ears softened and that little piercing eye lock and you know all will be fine because the day will be done soon and it will be time to go home .
Shinnery, we never really trained Millie or Belle but as pups ,they did love to herd the chickens without harming them and it grew from there.
I rehabbed song birds for a while and had some snakes(2) get into a mockingbird nest and scatter the little things. This was right nest to the garden and the little birds were in the rows somewhere.. I said "Belle where are the birds"? She looked at me and directly went to them. I put up a basket in the tree and placed them in it (after disposing of the offenders) and the parent birds feed them from then on till they left.
Millie was a natural and could get whatever cow you pointed at and bring it to you. Once she brought me a cow and I said "no, I want the calf" and she went back and got it among other cows. She was a good zig zagger. Thank ya'l again,
collie