Skye
learned the "rules of the farm" from Golden Retriever
Maisie. She and Skye were best buds despite the abuses he continues
to rain upon her! He just loved to tug on her "feathers"
and hang off her jowls by his sharp little teeth.Back to Hatchtown Farm's Home Page
Skye's a mostly soft, shiny black Border
Collie. He's fitted with white "hipboots" in the front
and "ankle-highs" in the rear. There's a tiny tuft of
white right at the end of his tail which makes it look like one
of those striped helicopter rotors when he wags it at dusk..
Jan 2001 UPDATE -- Skye's now 3 years old. He love to 'work' the sheep more than anything. He and I make a rather haphazard pair of herders -- which is all my fault. I'm the one with not enough time for training, etc.
Here is a 2 month old Skye sitting on top of one of our stonewalls in this photo -- he wanted so badly to get up there. But once up, he wasn't so sure he liked the tippy stones.
Skye
learned the "rules of the farm" from Golden Retriever
Maisie. She and Skye were best buds despite the abuses he continues
to rain upon her! He just loved to tug on her "feathers"
and hang off her jowls by his sharp little teeth.
Maisie passed on in Oct. 1999. ....and Golden Retriever puppy
Sadie arrived early in 2000. Now Skye is the "grownup"
-- Sadie has endless energy and no interest in learning anything
from Skye.
To the right is a
piccie of Skye on his way out to the island for the Wild Sheep
Round-Up in Oct. '97. Frank, in the background, is piloting the
lobster boat. Skye seemed to take to boating right off -- it was
a rough crossing, but seasickness was not a problem -- thankfully!
:-)
photo by Debby Donnelly
Skye was really just along for the ride. Witch, in the foreground,
on the other hand, was going out to work.
Even with 8 or so of us "herders" yelling maniacally
and waving jackets, it'd be tough to drive a couple of hundred
spooky sheep along a rocky shoreline without Witch's help!
photo by Debby Donnelly
Here are Skye and Witch by the pens out on the island. Skye is
now about the same size as Witch -- maybe bigger!
photo by Debby Donnelly
Now that Skye's "full grown", he hasn't been invited back out to the island. His herding (and OBEDIENCE!) skills will have to improve before he'll be trusted out there in a "real world" situation -- can't have him driving half the flock off a cliff into the ocean!
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