Tazimodo: Happy Birthday Craig!

Monday, July 28, 2008

Happy Birthday Craig!

My sheep tutor turns 10 today!

Here's to many more, Craigor MacGregor!

6 comments:

Samantha ~ Holly and Zac ~ said...: Happy 10th Birthday handsome Craig!

Hope you all have a good day! :-); 2:30 PM
Laura said...: Craig says thank you and he enjoyed his birthday meal of ram ribs. If I couldn't find the time to bring him to work sheep on his special day (stupid copyediting project is due tomorrow), at least he could see them in his dinner bowl ;-); 7:51 AM
Rockstar and Kipp said...: Happy Birthday Mr. Handsome!!! I hope you loved your ram ribs. Sounds like the perfect birthday dinner to me! :); 10:50 AM
Bex and the Bookends said...: Happy Birthday!!; 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday, Craig! You are an awesome lad, and you are teaching your mom and brother so much about the wonderful world of sheep herding! To many more, gorgeous!

Signed: The lady who you liked so much on the hike last month; 8:32 PM
Laura said...: Craig says thank you very much everyone! And he wants to know when we are going hiking again...; 9:01 PM

About Me & the Dogs...

I live in Erie, Colorado, and—despite the clear lack of sheep in my suburban backyard—I spend much of my free time working my border collies on stock. Sophie is the dog I started this journey with—she is a border collie x aussie (x maybe chihuahua, at least according to the canine genetics folks) who, as a misbehaving adolescent brought me to my first glimpse of the stockdog world. I didn't learn very much with her, but our experience piqued my curiosity about working stockdogs. I then got Taz to learn how to work with dogs and stock for real. I started Taz myself and have learned a lot about what not to do along the way! Taz spent a few months in Canada last winter with Scott Glen, who fixed some of the mistakes I made training him—I am really enjoying working Taz again and seeing what we can do together. Craig is my oldest border collie, given to me a few years ago to help me improve my handling skills and now retired. Meg is my newest prospect; she's just a pup now, but she's a firecracker and I can't wait to start her. Right now, I trial Taz in pro-novice/open ranch. I am hoping that keeping an online journal of my trials and tribulations will help me work through my training challenges and keep me on track. I am very fortunate to have a few skilled and accomplished folks helping me, and I have no doubt that this blog will be a source of great amusement for them. It's also a fun way to share the pain with others also suffering the anguish and humiliation of trying to figure out how to guide another species to effectively interact with a third species to a standard of skill developed by people living in another country hundreds of years ago . . .