Trouble is just too Cute!

But Tough!

Blue Merle c/w Female (spayed)

DOB: 06-02-98

18" 35#

Bite: Full/Scissors

Eyes: Brown/marbled / cleared

OFA: GOOD

Pedigree

sire: Ch. DeAbajo Double Latte' Donegal

dam: ACh. Winslows Hear I-AM!

Trouble was my pick bitch for all-around competition in Rebecca's 2nd litter. At 8 weeks she knew sit, down, stand, give me five, give me ten, heeled on leash and by 4 months she was started on sheep with a wonderful fetch!

Smart? You Betcha!!!

Trouble is cute and has a great personality and thinks it's her job to help out, no matter the chore. She is a definite header that grips and a strong fetching dog. She has a really nice drive now also. She has worked Suffolk and Lincolns since 4 mos. and now works my Katahdin sheep. She has worked sheep, cattle, ducks, chickens and goats. She has always been my dependable do all chore dog.

As a house dog and companion, you couldn't ask for more. She guards my socks nightly and likes to curl up next to me while I read.

She'll guard the sheep from strangers (even those nasty noisy cars that drive by!), give a warning bark if someone's at the gate, yet will greet them with a bounce in the air if I let them in.

As a working dog, she is intuitive. Trouble helps out with my vetting of the flock and is very gentle with baby lambs. I also work her on my chicken flock - which she loves and is ingenious in finding them out!

Every evening when it's time to put the sheep up, Trouble has a song and dance that she does before she goes out side to do her business.

She truly loves to work! Although we didn't qualify at Trouble's first AHBA trial, we had fun, learned a lot and got GREAT feedback on her working style! She's a lot of fun to work with and looks like we'll have fun trialing too!

ASCWA Working Trials June 30, July 1, 2, 2001
Go to trial photos

  Judges: Canby Scott, Kaye & Wayne Harris

JUNE 30:
Trouble Q's on ducks (Places 5th) and sheep, scores in cattle;

JULY 1:
Trouble Q's on ducks (Places 4th), scores in cattle, not trialed on sheep;

JULY 2:
Trouble trials on ducks, sheep and cattle. Scores in all three, although not qualifying, she's close!

Trouble wins the 2001 ASCWA Hank Trusler High Combined Started Aussie award!!!! YEEE HAW!

COMMENTS:
This was Trouble's first ASCA trial as well as her first trialing on or EXPOSURE to cattle and ducks! I was greatly enthused with her ability to head cattle and take a few licks and give some back.
If I knew more about what I was supposed to be doing, Trouble would have qualified on cattle.

Trouble's next trial will be August 5 on sheep - going for that 2nd leg. And she Qualifies!!! 

AUGUST 5, 2001:
Trouble Q's on Sheep under Bob Blount with an 81 to finish her STDs!

Now, on to Open Sheep and Ducks (OH MY!) and Started Cattle (after mom figures out how to drive!)

August 2, 2002:
Trouble Qualifies for her RTDs under judge Rachel Vest. YEEEEE HAAAAW!

October 2002:
Trouble Q'd in HTD1-sd for her first legs on sheep and ducks.
She had an AWESOME 2nd run on sheep, but handler errors at the pen denied her a Q!

February 2003:
Trouble finished her HTD1d with a 1st place and score of 72!

June 2003
Trouble Q's in Open Sheep with a 2nd Place and a nice score of 101 under judge Rick Hardin! (see photo to right)

Trouble Q's in Open Ducks with a nice score of 92 also under Rick. Her cousin Courtney goes HIGH IN TRIAL AUSSIE with a 111 and 1st Place!

July 2003
Trouble finishes her OTDd with a 3rd place and a 93. Not bad. Great Run too!

August 2003
Trouble started and Finished her Started Cattle title with some very nice scores as well as a 2nd Place!

Fall 2003:
We are now in Advanced Ducks and Open Sheep & Cattle in ASCA and Level 2 Sheep & Ducks in AHBA.

Summer/Fall 2005

Trouble finished her Advanced Ducks. We are still having problems on the center pen/chute in sheep but may have figured it out. Her driving is gorgeous and I'm looking forward to doing PATDs with her soon!
 

Winter 2006

Trouble and I are back in the arena and I have to say "I LOVE WORKING THIS DOG!" She tries SO hard to do what I ask and never quits. Her driving is doing great as well as her directions. I have changed a few things in wording and it's working better between us. She finished her Open Sheep with a 1st place and has had some beautiful runs in Advanced Sheep so far this year, two qualifying, and is just a joy to trial.

Spring 2006

Trouble truly has a lot of heart. Even though we are back working cattle and she is doing a good job, I know that her confidence level is not what it use to be but it's getting there. I trialed Trouble again this April and had two really successful runs, one which garnered her a 2nd place and a qualifying score of 96.

Summer 2006

Trouble finished her ATDs with a 90 and due to handler errors missed qualifying for her second leg in Open Cattle. SEE PHOTOS!

Trouble took the rest of the year off after having her second and final litter in August, this time by Cash
Winslows Burning Ring of Fire OTDdc STDs.

She is back working cattle and doing a nice job.

She needs three more legs (all cattle) to finish her WTCH. We will be trialing in our first PATD in July!

Fall 2007

WE GOT SOME CALVES!

I've finally been able to purchase some calves to grow and work the dogs on. These past few months as they grow, Courtney and Trouble have become a great team in working them. This has added a boost of confidence in Trouble since she had been hurt a few years ago. She had stopped heading and now is back to heading and gripping. I hope by next summer her confidence level will be up, maybe not like it was as a two year old, but enough that we can finish.

Trouble on YouTube