Minding your P's & Q's

Making the most of chore time with the girls for other training....generally 'minding' me.
True comes along with Sting when I'm bringing feed into the sheep pen. It's basically an 'obedience' lesson for her ( self control and to remember the task at hand ) all starts before we open the gate to enter...the girls have to sit stay and wait to be 'invited' in...then they have to sit stay while I bring in the feed and close the gate. Both would love to be working the sheep as they are moving off to the far end of the pasture as we are coming in ( good impulse control for True ) Part of the lesson is that just because there is sheep in the pen...they dont always need to be worked.

True has a nice 'that 'll do'/come on her so it gets reinforced as we walk over to the feed bunk to fork hay. Both are put on stay between the sheep and feedbunk. It's a good lesson for True to remember she is on stay...(sometimes she forgets and gets up to shop for pasture raisins ) so without repeating the command she is re-parked...I want her to remember the first command.
A simple excerise that will help lay down some ground work with True before I start her on stock.