Working Dog

Teddy is over six months old now, and he's becoming quite a good pup. Where he struggled with easy commands: down, leave it, no; he excelled at others: sit, stay, and fetch. The most surprising of all though, is what he instructions knew to do. We witnessed that this weekend. 

Teddy learned he could crawl under the pasture gate and go visit the farm animals. He didn't bark, attack or even make sudden movements. Instead, he just walked around the animals and watched them. Then Rob tried to get him to herd a goat. He kept cutting off the goat from her intended direction until she finally gave up and turned around. Then, he patiently sat. Good boy!

There is one thing we're not crazy about, he'll eat whatever is available on the ground in the pasture. Cattle cubes are one thing, but cow patties? Please no!