THE GO-TO DOG

a photo essay by Erylon Hines

"A while back on the herder's list you asked for some pics of Aussies doing farm work with sheep. Today I loaded out a ram and I took the camera because I figured it would be a furball and the ram had never been split out of a group and he hadn't been put in a stock trailer, either. I wanted to record the mess, but I was wrong. This is a series of how it happened, minus the gathering and sorting. The dog is K-J's 2nd X Devil's Ghost STDsdc. She's not quite 3 and has some maturing to do, but she is rapidly becoming my go-to dog for just about any situation."

—E

"Can I do that hard job you were talking about next?"