"Finn" and his girl
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Fox Meadow Trommari spends a playful Sunday morning with his boy! These boys are certainly growing up together, Trommari is almost as big as his best buddy now!
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley 
Fox Meadow Jolasveinn meets one of our yearling rams Fox Meadow Gryphon for the first time today after we finished shearing; and lays down some ground rules for him
Alright everybody get moving, you too Pembrooke!
I said stay right there!
Fox Meadow Snaefinnur and his "Mom' are setting out to do some puppy agility and By Golly - I think the little guys got it!. He's doing incredible for a 12 week old little guy! He is now known as "Finn" at home, the call name chosen especially to come out quickly in a competition.
Go Finn!
Finn in "the pause box" looking to his person for the cue to be released!
Finn looks like he really is enjoying himself and his new found talents, as you can see the "jump" is very, very low. Puppies should be at least 12 months old before they begin really doing jumps allowing for their growth plates to close to prevent joint damage. Finn is able to just trot over the jump while still learning to move between the poles.
Bjalla and her own personal Black Sheep Odinn the Bernese Mountain Dog! Her family sent us a little update on Bjalla
Bjalla has became a very big and happy girl and she LOVES Odin. Bjalla is always playing with Odin and our cat Ockey. Bjalla has been doing a GREAT job on herding the family together.
I've been so very lucky to find such awesome families for Elsie and Kaffi's puppies . Trommari has a an incredible little boy to grow up and experience knew things with and a couple of awesome adults who just adore him. They work with him daily at obedience and say he's is really coming along well mastering downs, stays and is rcalling really well.
After we finished some shearing today, Jolasveinn finally was able to meet the sheep. He was a little startled at first, he trotted past a lambing jug that our best ewe Fiona and her 3 day old twin lambs were tucked away safely in; she's a great mom and even though they were on opposites sides of a fence she stomped her feet at him then head butted the gate as he went by. The little guy quickly recovered and went out to meet the larger group.
He was immediately greeted by one of our Shetland rams Pembrooke, who gave him a little back off snort and stomp but otherwise was happy to let him be around his ewes so long as Jolasveinn didn't get too out of line with them. He ran them up from the lower pasture to the upper one, where the video stops he had also stopped to wait for us to catch up with him then went on to finish the job.
The Icelandic Sheepdog naturally herds in a droving style rather than Gathering like the Border Collie. They use their voice to move the sheep away from the shepherd, they can although be taught to Gather and drive the sheep toward the shepherd. The ISD rarely needs to resort to getting nippy or "grip" the flocks they herd. Our flock of Shetland Sheep are not dog broke and are not an overly flocky breed but even they can respect the authority of a 12 week old Icelandic Sheepdog
