It was herding night. This has turned out to be GSD herding night with 4-6 GSD's each session. How cool. Tonight I brought my girl Layla (Treasure Ranch's Layla V Milo, Fairhope's Pit Boss X Milo's Here Comes Trouble) Boss is taking a couple weeks off as his woman was in season and he wouldn't eat. Darn males. Layla was instinct tested back in late March. She did well. Hasn't been back since due to camp and showing and stuff. Well, this young lady acted like she's the one who has been taking lessons the last 5 mos. She started in the round pen and was awesome. So, Janna let her go in the bigger arena for her second run. That instict kicked in and she could've passed the HT test tonight. (We are practicing for it so she had to do the requirements) I was so proud of her. Even more amazing is that she's never had a lesson. It is the most awesome thing to see these dogs do what they were bred for. To see that instinct kick in. WOW! The current topic on my Dutch shepherd list is the GSD. They are bashing our show dogs and their inability to work. Well, as our breed was bred to herd, I think I have that covered :-) Anyway, thanks for reading my post. I am really proud of this girl and look forward to seeing my first homebred girl get dual titles :-) Laura Thomas http://www.treasureranchgsds.com/ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================