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You all know that I take a lot of pics. 
-- so yesterday I was so busy trying to get a good pic (with the stupid phone) and I sort of wasn't paying attention to the hooligans. And, well being the hooligans they are, they did a lamb race take off back toward the barn. Mama ewes all standing nicely on the ranch road going the right direction. Sigh. Only one resort - send the dogs. Obi -- no problem he has the finesse to handle zooming lambs. Zo, not the highest in the finesse department - but he does try hard, just doesn't have the experience. Of course this all has to happen with them going down hill and around a bend (or maybe more) and that is totally out of sight. And over a dry creek that has a lot of cover. TRUST the dog(s). I wait it out - seemed like an eternity, but of course wasn't. Minute? Two? More?? And...... the hooligans return and as they return I see Zo actually make a decision on where to be and how to get there - the right decision and the right way to get where he needed to be (read -- not through the lambs). I think Obi showed him some hooligan handling skills!
So -- this is what I managed to get a pic of once the lambs were back..... mama ewes thinking of going back and my two great boys Obi and Zo saying "We will return to your normally scheduled move to graze".
-- so yesterday I was so busy trying to get a good pic (with the stupid phone) and I sort of wasn't paying attention to the hooligans. And, well being the hooligans they are, they did a lamb race take off back toward the barn. Mama ewes all standing nicely on the ranch road going the right direction. Sigh. Only one resort - send the dogs. Obi -- no problem he has the finesse to handle zooming lambs. Zo, not the highest in the finesse department - but he does try hard, just doesn't have the experience. Of course this all has to happen with them going down hill and around a bend (or maybe more) and that is totally out of sight. And over a dry creek that has a lot of cover. TRUST the dog(s). I wait it out - seemed like an eternity, but of course wasn't. Minute? Two? More?? And...... the hooligans return and as they return I see Zo actually make a decision on where to be and how to get there - the right decision and the right way to get where he needed to be (read -- not through the lambs). I think Obi showed him some hooligan handling skills!So -- this is what I managed to get a pic of once the lambs were back..... mama ewes thinking of going back and my two great boys Obi and Zo saying "We will return to your normally scheduled move to graze".
