HISTORY
By: Shirley Daniel
We have been training and selling border collies for over 25 years. Our first
border collie, Billie, was the beginning of a new activity at our place. Lynn had
trained and worked with several other breeds of dogs, but Billie brought the
training aspect to a new level. After only a few weeks of training, Lynn realized
what a wonderful breed of dog this was. He was the most trainable dog he had
ever worked with. Needless to say, Billie became our #1 helper on the place
(which demoted me and I am thankful for my blessings!).
When Lynn was riding cutting horses, our children were his turn-back help.
After they left for college, I was promoted to the position. (I never claimed I
could ride a cutting horse!) But I was the pitcher on our softball team so after a
few fiascos on the horse I chose to stay on the ground and pitch rocks at the
cattle to move them better.
Billie was watching all of this, and I am sure he decided to help me out and
show Lynn he was the better choice. After a few times of running Billie out of
the arena, Lynn realized he had the perfect helper! (Someone that would listen
to his every command.)
We have recently moved to the Southeastern part of Oklahoma near Atoka.
Lynn and I both grew up in this area. We decided this would be a good place to
retire. We built our dream home and Lynn's dream kennel. And it doesn't hurt
that we are a lot closer to both our children and grandchildren!
Since we have moved back to this area we compete in a lot of cattle trials. We
are still competing at the Oklahoma State Fair, Tulsa State Fair, and Fort Worth
Stock Show.
We put on many demonstrations for different organizations. We have worked
the Tulsa Scottish Games for over 10 years. We supply sheep and show the dogs
working at the rodeos for the mutton bust'in. It is an opportunity to show the
many talents of the Border Collie.
We felt honored recently to have a person from a university approach us about
writing an article on border collies and how they can be used in farming and
ranching. They had said that this will appear and be used in the Introduction to
Agriculture I: Agriculture Education, published by CIMC. In other words, it was
to be used in first-year Ag education for FFA. It is now in print and will be used
for seven years in the schools. With everything going on this past year, with
building our home, the kennel, and just all the work involved, we had forgotten
about the book.
Recently we got a call from our eldest grandson, and he said, Pa, you aren't
going to believe this, but you and Grandma are in my Ag book. We had
forgotten to remind him that he might be using this book in his Ag class. We all
had a nice laugh!
By: Shirley Daniel
We have been training and selling border collies for over 25 years. Our first
border collie, Billie, was the beginning of a new activity at our place. Lynn had
trained and worked with several other breeds of dogs, but Billie brought the
training aspect to a new level. After only a few weeks of training, Lynn realized
what a wonderful breed of dog this was. He was the most trainable dog he had
ever worked with. Needless to say, Billie became our #1 helper on the place
(which demoted me and I am thankful for my blessings!).
When Lynn was riding cutting horses, our children were his turn-back help.
After they left for college, I was promoted to the position. (I never claimed I
could ride a cutting horse!) But I was the pitcher on our softball team so after a
few fiascos on the horse I chose to stay on the ground and pitch rocks at the
cattle to move them better.
Billie was watching all of this, and I am sure he decided to help me out and
show Lynn he was the better choice. After a few times of running Billie out of
the arena, Lynn realized he had the perfect helper! (Someone that would listen
to his every command.)
We have recently moved to the Southeastern part of Oklahoma near Atoka.
Lynn and I both grew up in this area. We decided this would be a good place to
retire. We built our dream home and Lynn's dream kennel. And it doesn't hurt
that we are a lot closer to both our children and grandchildren!
Since we have moved back to this area we compete in a lot of cattle trials. We
are still competing at the Oklahoma State Fair, Tulsa State Fair, and Fort Worth
Stock Show.
We put on many demonstrations for different organizations. We have worked
the Tulsa Scottish Games for over 10 years. We supply sheep and show the dogs
working at the rodeos for the mutton bust'in. It is an opportunity to show the
many talents of the Border Collie.
We felt honored recently to have a person from a university approach us about
writing an article on border collies and how they can be used in farming and
ranching. They had said that this will appear and be used in the Introduction to
Agriculture I: Agriculture Education, published by CIMC. In other words, it was
to be used in first-year Ag education for FFA. It is now in print and will be used
for seven years in the schools. With everything going on this past year, with
building our home, the kennel, and just all the work involved, we had forgotten
about the book.
Recently we got a call from our eldest grandson, and he said, Pa, you aren't
going to believe this, but you and Grandma are in my Ag book. We had
forgotten to remind him that he might be using this book in his Ag class. We all
had a nice laugh!
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