| This pattern of stimulus and response is parallel to the way that a shepherd might train his sheepdog. |
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| Her expression immediately softened at the sight of me but turned hard once more after spotting the Old English sheepdog. |
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| A well-known farmer has unlatched the gate on a pioneering new sheepdog training centre. |
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| Read the exciting adventures of Black Bob, the clever sheepdog, in the wilds of Canada. |
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| He was also a sheep farmer who, with his dog Pal, won national sheepdog trials! |
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| This sheep-creature is the biggest single difference between sheepdog trialing and dog events like obedience and agility. |
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| My two-year-old Shetland sheepdog has developed pink, raw areas on her nose that sometimes ooze and scab up. |
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| After the last stallion pranced out of the arena, they brought out pens and slatted gates for the sheepdog trial. |
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| Philip's mother, Carol, said that instead of a dummy he was given a sheepdog whistle as a baby, and he's never looked back. |
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| The youngster and his Shetland sheepdog, Ross, have qualified to compete at Crufts in the junior Agility Dog of the Year competition. |
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| The Shetland sheepdog has been embraced by dog lovers around the world and has responded to that embrace with unquestionable devotion. |
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| The dog was a mutt that looked like a cross between a sheepdog and a poodle. |
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| A shepherd watched his flock through binoculars and his sheepdog watched from the back of the quadbike. |
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| The sheepdog won round one of Thursday's competition before battling it out in the final with 30 other dogs in the mixed breed category. |
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| As I opened the door, Meg the sheepdog puppy rushed in past me, and launched herself at him with maximum possible excitement at finding him. |
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| Competitors and spectators at an annual charity sheepdog trials helped to raise the highest total for three years. |
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| Lambluv's Desert Dancer, is the top winning Old English sheepdog in the history of the breed with 64 blue ribbons. |
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| I've always been fascinated by sheepdog trials, though I watch it on TV rather than go to the real thing and have to peer into the distance. |
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| My Old English sheepdog is always rubbing against the couch and rolling around on the carpet. |
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| Zippos Circus, which has horses, budgies and a sheepdog among its performers, opened at the Westcott Recreation Ground yesterday. |
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| Today, with the huge popularity of sheepdog trials, many shepherds now have practical hill dogs and competition dogs. |
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| The grounds have been used for many diverse sports, such as massive youth football tournaments, American football, and even sheepdog trials. |
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| Five hundred limited edition copies of the book, which follows the story of the sheepdog and his friends on Whimsey Farm, went on sale. |
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| In this way it functions like a sheepdog herding its flock, always watching over and controlling the whole. |
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| Keen as a young sheepdog on a winter morning, this is the sort of wine that oyster lovers yearn for. |
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| She lived long before the first sheepdog trials, during a lean and hungry time in Scotland. |
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| We compete in sheepdog trials, and we put a fair number of miles on the pickup finding sheep to practice with. |
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| The popularity of sheepdog trials is surging in Australia, despite a declining rural population and a growing trend of using motorbikes to herd sheep and cattle. |
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| She worked with Mollie in obedience for two years before beginning herding, and she and Mollie were competing in open sheepdog trials until she lost Mollie to bone cancer. |
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| They include horse racing, bull riding, and sheepdog trials. |
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| Watch championship sheepdog trials, flower arranging, traditional wrestling and show-jumping competitions, and admire prize-winning bulls, horses, chickens and dogs. |
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| Some of the events taking place include fly casting competitions, demonstrations, clay pigeon shooting, gundog and sheepdog trials, terrier races and a tug-of-war. |
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| He totes his ancient, blind sheepdog around by a rope and acts as major domo. |
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| Red Dog is played in the film by an Australian breed of sheepdog known as a red cloud kelpie, and there's now a bronze statue of him in the area. |
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| Herding dogs, such as the collie and the Shetland sheepdog clustered, too though this group included greyhounds and St Bernards. |
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| It's like being a sheepdog on a sensitivity training course these days. |
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| Dogs and sheep don't mix well, unless it's a highly trained sheepdog and in our experience owners have not been too careful where their animals leave their trademark. |
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| He helped look after the sheep of eight farmers which meant early starts and braving cold, biting winter winds, often with only the company of a sheepdog. |
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| It is most widespread in Andalusia, where it is used as a sheepdog as well as a companion for water game hunters and fisherfolk. |
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| Herding dogs include the German shepherd, Shetland sheepdog, and Welsh corgi. |
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| Experts laud the quality of movement of a sheepdog that combines suppleness with efficiency. |
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| Dutch Shepherds are members of the family of Dutch sheepdog breeds that also include the Schapendoes and the Saarlooswolfdog. |
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| The foot is both tighter and more arched than that of the long-coated sheepdog. |
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| We therefore investigated the allelic variations of the DRD4 gene in the beagle and Shetland sheepdog, as well as in the golden retriever and shiba. |
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| He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog. |
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| But Grossman would say that all I am doing is leaving the sheepdog burden for others, that I am choosing to live in denial. |
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| The breeds from which the sheepdog sprang are not identified, though some people maintain that Scotch bearded collies played a significant role in the sheepdog's development. |
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| But before breakfast we usually go for a walk with the dog, our second Old English sheepdog, looking out for deer and wild boar, wild orchids and mushrooms. |
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| Among the dogs taken away were dalmatians and dachshunds which had appeared at the Crufts show and Shetland sheepdog puppies. |
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| Nicky is a 15-year-old Shetland sheepdog who lives with Mrs Ann Docherty in Nottingham. |
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| This ancient breed of sheepdog has colonized the entire Italian Alpine region, but it is especially prevalent in the valleys of Bergamo, where sheep breeding is well developed. |
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| In Washington, a Belgian sheepdog is helping researchers find the state's rare Western pond turtle. |
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| If Mr Rove goes, Mr Bush will have lost his sheepdog just as his flock is starting to jump the fences. Social conservatives may be satisfied for now, but fiscal conservatives are bellowing about the deficit. |
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| If ever there was a Ted-ish cutaway shot, it would be to Don the sheepdog, cruising down the dual carriageway while his distracted owner tends to a lamb. |
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| Their square shape gives Bergamasco Shepherds a distinct gait compared with other sheepdog breeds. They can adopt an ordinary gallop for quite a long time. |
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| Kuvaszs are members of a very old sheepdog breed indigenous to Hungary. They are very muscular, solidly built dogs with a lively temperament that love to be active. |
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| There are wonderful leaders who watch where people are going and gently, insistently herd them from all sides, even from behind, rather like a good sheepdog. |
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| After staying out of the limelight for most of the 1990's, worldwide demand for Briards has since risen to unprecedented levels and the breed is now the most widespread French sheepdog there is. |
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| Affectionate, obedient, very loyal and confident, Dutch Shepherds are undemanding and bursting with stamina. Add constant alertness to the mix and you have the very definition of a sheepdog. |
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| Like many other sheepdog breeds, they are very well balanced and lively, but their devotion to their human companion is a very distinct characteristic of the breed. |
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| They wear the determined expression of a working dog, after centuries employed in their native region not as a terrier, for which they have no aptitude, but as a sheepdog. |
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| All day long, one can attend shearing demonstrations, sheepdog performances, stroll through the stalls, and enjoy the music, with hikes in high mountain pastures on the programme. |
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| We met Davies last August with an expert from the Dogs' Trust, who inspected the Old English sheepdog puppy we were offered. |
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| Reading David Dollar's article made me feel as if I were in the company of an alert old English sheepdog. |
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| Distinguishing the big white sheepdog breeds doesn't only cause non pedigree connaisseurs to dispair, even expert breeders tend to have a lot of difficulties with it. |
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| The Belgian sheepdog is well-proportioned, smart and powerful dog, of medium size, strong and strong musculature, used to live in the outdoors and built to resist to the various climates of Belgium. |
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| He raised free-range chickens, and his Maremma sheepdog named Oddball guarded them. |
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| Breeds less likely to be violent include Chihuahua, golden retriever, Labrador retriever, poodle, Scottish terrier, and Shetland sheepdog, the study shows. |
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| His twin brother Ben has joined the Blues as a physio but his dad arrived in Melbourne with sad news that his beloved Shetland sheepdog, Gus, died last week. |
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| He gave me a consolatory slap on the back before sploshing off down the track with his crazy-eyed sheepdog, leaving me worrying about what I'd got myself into. |
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