Vaider at 19 months
At 19 months Vaider is proving to be a willing sheep dog. He is doing well with his driving becoming more and more willing to walk straight into the heads of the sheep. His eye is hitching him up a little on his gathers. He still worries when asked to yield so we have not focused on that but have accepted small bends off the sheep to break his eye in smaller increments.
I put him out to help Ty when I went to wean the calves and he did not think much of that. He had a mother cow come out at him. To this his answer was to run off. He has turned away from the heads of cattle since that incident but is slowly getting better. He is still willing to work the steers and heifers that he had been working before the pairs incident but does check up when they turn into him.
At this stage he definately is prefering sheep to cattle but the hope is that will change given more time.