"We may have a new Cattle Dogs in Action category for you to add soon! Our ACD Cookie won the 'Dancing Virgins' at Paws in the Park in Kent at the end of last month. This is a sort of pre-starters HTM/Freestyle competition for those who've never entered a HTM comp before, but for us it was extra special as Cookie was the youngest, at only 13 months (you need to be 12 months to start competing), and she's completely deaf, and has some behavioural issues with other dogs. She wowed the judges with a performance to Paul McCartney's Frog Chorus with my OH Kevin, and will be entering her first real competition at the end of November. She'll be one of the youngest new dogs on the circuit, other than those owned by estabilished HTM people, and to our trainers knowledge, the only deaf one, apart from one who went deaf in later life, and we think, the only ACD - though if there are any more out there, we'd love to hear from them!! We'll let you know how we get on!"
 

Cattledogs are generally known to be "wary of strangers" but this is an illustration of what well socialized cattledogs will put up with from their owners!