Folks have been working livestock with the help of dogs for several millenniums now. My former father-in-law (a good man, God rest his soul) was a master of this method, a true artist. My in-laws had a small ranch, usually with a core herd of 60 or 70 “mama” cows. This meant they usually had an equal number of cows to sell at a future point.
My father-in-law usually had two dogs, one of which was heeler and the other a header. A heeler moves a cow by coming in from their back side, Continue reading “Eyeballers…”