A Dog For Me And My Flock - Page 5

4 am and Im up with a pup....what was I thinking. YAWN. Naw man, she's doing great. She just has to get up and pee Early in the morning. Then she has to eat then she has to play. then she crashes and gives me a little alone time. She's doing good with he chickens. Ive been giving her at least 20 min. a day in the run. She has been play pouncing at the little chicks in the nursery pen but stops when corrected. Very little interest in the big birds.

Sharing some mealies with the chickens.

Yes Sky likes Meal Worms.

She went over and licked one of the Baby Turkeys

Eating cucumber with the chickens...silly dog.

Sky has started to bump the chickens and turkeys. She is not nipping or chasing, but every now and then she'll bump one with her nose if the bird is in her way. For right now I'm allowing it. I think its her "polite" way of telling them to get out of he way. Any follow up chasing will not be tolerated.

So far I am extremely happy with her. She is very obedient and smart. The only thing she does that I don't care for is she wakes me up between 4 and 5am every morning. She doe have a small bladder and needs to go pee. She also gets bored when no one is with her in the wee hours of the morning and she will start to cry when this happens. I will ignore the crying, very hard to do. As soon as she stops I go get her. I don't want her to learn that crying and making a fuss will produce positive results. She is getting better. Most of the time she waits to hear my alarm at 5:15am before she starts up.

Sky sharing some frozen watermelon with the chickens on a hot Texas afternoon.