Around the fire
Yarn 03 of 121 min readTold by Tim

The Dog That Worked Too Wide

The best sheepdog we ever had ran too wide as a pup. Beautiful mover, covered twice the ground of any other dog — and lost the mob every time, because he was working the whole paddock instead of the sheep in front of him.

The old man never punished the range. He just taught him where the pressure actually was. That dog became the one everyone wanted.