Maeve
Starstuff’s Fire in the Sky
04/05/22 DM, HC, HUU, MDR1, PRCD, IGS ALL N/N CEA N/N
“Ain’t no thing like me, except me.”
Rocket Raccoon
Maeve is most definitely the “little girl with the little curl”. She can be so good and do such amazing work and then something trips her trigger. To be fair, she has not gotten the quantity, quality or type of training she needed in her formative years because… well… life. I’m working to correct that with consistency and patience both on and off stock. We are also dabbling our toes in scent work. Just the basics at the moment, but something to fill time and mostly because she has demonstrated over and over again what a phenomenal sniffer she has.
She has a beautiful take pen, nice flanks, more eye than her brother, and a keen sense of group. At the moment we’re working on tamping down her chase reflex. If something leaves, she’s going to make sure she catches it. An admirable trait if done correctly. Not so much when using the methods she currently chooses to employ.
Maeve has no quit in her and can take quite a bit both mentally and physically. Fast, sometimes pushy, but always willing, Maeve is going a long way toward filling Jig’s pawprints and stepping up as the ‘big gun’ on the farm.
Maeve, 11 1/2 wks, first time on sheep.
Maeve, 13 wks, second time on sheep.
Notes: Me laughing at the end of the first walk-up was due to my training partner telling me not to make Maeve lie down, and then she did it anyhow. The cut out section was me untangling myself from the line. We’re still not best of friends, it and I.
