Kate on the Hill

Here are some photos from a rainy afternoon. We took Kate to the top of the hill to practice a little more with the ewe flock. It has been pretty impossible to train her when Ness (our older Border Collie) is out with the sheep. Ness is just too dominant and really plays mind games with Kate. So alone is better.

Kate is starting to realize her skills. She is the smallest Border Collie we have had thus far and is incredibly agile. She would make a great frisbee dog as she often entertains me with crazy round and round and rounds on the way to feed the chickens. It is such fun to watch her improve and watch the sheep realize they have another dog to listen to. 

It was rainy and the colors look very gray but the grass looks green. The sheep will continue to graze until mid-November. They are covered with burrs because the areas they are grazing are infested with burdock. That's what the polkadot look is. They will fall out by shearing next summer.