Meeker 3 - heartbreak

Five days of sheepdog trails at Meeker- they're all top dogs.


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Ian and Peg got all the non-collared sheep out of the ring with about 10 minutes still on the clock- that's really fantastic.


Now the only thing left to do is get the 5 sheep with the orange collars into the pen.


...and heartbreak one of the little lambchops gets away and rejoins the herd. Which means Ian and Peg have to start the shed again and bring the whole group into the ring and shed down to the final 5 once more.

The really tragic part is that this happened to Ian and Peg *three* times in the last 10 minutes. They got the final 5 shee up to the pen and then one little mutton breaks off and rejoins the flock. Once was bad luck, twice was really bad luck, three times- heartbreak.