So wow, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Between Mum shifting both me and my Labrador sister over 1500kms away in one day, and moving house 3 times in the last couple of months, there hasn’t been much time for me to sit and think like I do. One fantastic thing about the move (despite moving away from grandad, I miss him) is Mum has started taking me to play with sheep! Apparently I’m supposed to put a few sheep through a course, but who cares about that, I just love chasing them!! The man who runs the sheep herding training days is Dale and he has some border collies and Labradors (his wife breeds the Labs) and he says I’m the best out of the beginners, and those other beginners have been doing this a lot longer than I have! Dale said it has something to do with my biological parents being great workers, but whatever the case is, my Mum is so proud when I do what she asks me to. And I get to jump in the lake after I finish playing with the sheep!

The new house we moved into is so close to the beach, we get to play there every day, and I get to run and run and meet all these new dogs and play in the surf. My sister Jenny is no fun, she’s getting old and all she wants to do is walk next to Mum instead of play with me. But Mum said it’s okay because Jenny had a cancer scare about a month ago and she is allowed to act her age now. Mum is going to add some photos one of our friends took of ME of course, when we went to Dale’s to do a yard dog clinic. It was my first time in the yard and it’s different work to what we normally do with the sheep, but because I’m just THAT good, Dale said I had the best run out of everyone there! And because Dale is silly and can’t remember my name, I get called ‘Tripod’ when I play with sheep, but that’s okay because Mum still knows my name.

This sheep just wanted to take me on!

Paws and hugs,

Zorion, Jenny and Amy