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Accounts of working dogs, yesterday, and today
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Sheepdog Training in 18th Century France – from Daubenton's Advice to Shepherds, 1782

From 1894: Collies in Mendocino – the McNab family's working collies in Northern California

The Old German Shepherd Dog in America – shepherd dogs from Germany in 19th century America

Old Shep and the Central Park Sheep – sheepdogs in Central Park, New York City, in 1888

1880 sheepdog trial in Philadelphia

1892 sheepdog trial in Belgium


1898 sheepdog trial in France


A Turn-of-the-Century Farm Shepherd


Jetty the Shepherd Dog , a working Collie in 1914

Sheepdogs by the Golden Gate - 1915 -- working dog activities at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Working Smooth Collies – in Canada in the 1920's

Australia's German Collie – some background on the Coolie/Koolie

Shepherds of Manhattan – tending flocks in American public parks in the 19th and 20th centuries

Tending the Flock – historical artworks and accounts of shepherds, shepherdesses and their dogs watching over their flocks

Australian Shepherd Silent Movie Star

Training of the Shepherd Dog by a French shepherd

A day with a shepherd in France

Ranch/Farm Herding Trial Courses

Herding Behaviors of Collies (Rough/Smooth)

Abby's Tale-- a young English Shepherd's sense of responsibility


Rimrock English Shepherds – Red Dirt in My Soul: Ranch Life in Wyoming -- a blog about life on a Wyoming Centennial Ranch, working cattle with English Shepherds


Carriage Dogs -- while this work isn't specifically involved with herding, it has been performed by many herding-breed dogs



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