REGINA – It was better late than never for a first-time competitor at the International Stock Dog Championship Trials.
“I’m a late entry,” said Barry Breemersch of Deloraine, Man., who travelled with his Border Collie, Boots, to compete for the first time at the show held Nov. 25 during Canadian Western Agribition in Regina.
Breemersch, who uses his dogs every day on his cattle operation, said competition is more stressful for the handler than the dogs.
“Most of the time it’s not the dogs that don’t do what they need to do. We just don’t send them where they need to go. “
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He said competing in the stock dog trials, particularly at Agribition, is a matter of self-education, both for him and his two-year-old dog.
“I believe we have to school ourselves when we go to town. If we don’t go to town, we’re never schooled. If we don’t go to school we never learn.”
He’s no stranger to working with dogs, but still marvels at the process.
“It’s a high when you move that dog around with such a distance away from you in a big field, arena, or wherever it might be and get results,” he said.
It’s an invisible string that we have on there. It’s so strong, sometimes it’s just amazing because we can get so much done.”
