------------------------------ ...and that's why they automatically start herding the family's kids as Soon as they can walk... Sondra Abarr - Sonderhaus Msg: #7 in digest From: AGray40366@xxxxxxx Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 15:20:47 EDT Subject: Re: confusion Well gosh, I live on 120ac working cattle ranch. My dogs are reasonably well angulated, decent strides, they don't go out with cattle. We work cattle with a bucket and 4 wheeler. Sometimes "function" doesn't always mean they still do their original intent, it may mean the still "could" do the original intent. Mine are really good trackers too, they can track a dog biscuit as well as any blood hound-I don't want them in hound group either. I simply wanted to shed some light on the fact we have Herding dogs, and not working dogs. They can do bite work, tracking, agility, S/R, herding, obedience, rally agility therapy, just anything really but they are a herding dog, and a fine one at that. Didn't mean to stir up stuff Ann Schilling Gray ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================