Greenstone Thunder-New AHBA Herding Title -JHD

Hello Folks

A Huge Congrats to Doug/Deb and Gwen, co-owners of Greenstone Thunder, Deb and Thunder passed their JHD (AHBA) legs one and two this past weekend, earning Thunder's second herding title to date, and he will be starting to to work on his HT titles later in June.

I could not be more proud of Thunder or more grateful to his owners and loving family for all the hard work and effort they have put into their lovely boy! Thanks guys, you are the best!

I have been promised new photos and I will post some to this update as soon as they arrive.. ok so the photos have arrived and wow, has Thunder learned control, no wonder he did it perfect..

So for those that have not been to a herding event, I have tried to show a few things in the photos I selected, so first is Deb and Thunder waiting to be called in..

So Thunder is put on stay, while Deb lets out the sheep, she then needs to have Thunder gather the sheep and bring them to her and then walk them though a gate, and around two different cones and then take them back across the area and pen them, with Thunders help, his job is to listen to Deb and to help control the flock, so in the one photo you see him running, that is at the beginning when he gathers the sheep and brings them to deb, the rest of the time, you see him behind Deb and the Sheep, either following the rear to push them forward on command or in a down stay, while Deb leads the way.

Here is the part from Dougs letter Qoute "JHD is moving sheep through a center gate and then to one of the far corners, to the other far corner and then back to the pen. Thunder sits while Deb pens the sheep and then comes when called. The sheep more or less stay with Deb and follow her around but Thunder provides "pressure" to keep them going. He's judged on his
awareness of and focus on the sheep. He was pretty much flawless and the judges
commented on his performance much the same way they commented on the border collies. The first judge (Leg I) said he's a good reason for her to shift from border collies to ISDs."

Barks