Shepherd George

In 1970 we moved to Deer Park and dabbled in the sheep farmer business.  When we purchased the sheep farm, a shepherd and two sheep dogs were included in the purchase.  The shepherd’s name was George.  He lived in an old sheepherder’s trailer in the yard.  We were amazed at how he was able to manage the dogs and the sheep, cattle herding had never been that easy for us.  When George left, we out of habit used our cattle herding skills and were never very effective at getting the sheep to go where we wanted.  Good thing we had Rags and Toby (the sheep dogs), they knew what to do when we didn’t.