The Working Sheepdogs of Scotland
Dogs With Jobs
Chances are good that you’ve probably seen a video or three on YouTube of border collies magically directing a herd of sheep into some sort of Christmas themed shape on a hillside somewhere, but I wanted to see them in person. After a brief google search, I was in contact with Leault Working Sheepdogs, a working sheep farm about an hour and a half from Inverness Scotland.
A family-run operation, I was more than happy to pay the small ticket price they requested to attend a demonstration of the dogs at work, a sheep being sheared, and getting to meet both a newly born lamb and some very new puppies. Information not known before our arrival, however, is that there are no bathrooms on-site and in the event of rain you can expect to get wet!
