Sheep Hearding Championship

We picked up three FREE tickets to the Sheep Herding Championship at the KSL/Macey's Pre-game party earlier this month. We headed to Midway and found our way to the Soldier Hollow Olympic Area. We gave our FREE tickets at the gate and headed to the arena. On the way there we ran into this group and enjoyed the music for a couple of minutes
I love listening to the bagpipes, we could hear them in the backgound througout the whole time we were at the festival.

We found a seat on the bleachers and watched the dogs and their owner's herd sheep. they had a 15 minute time frame to leave the owner, run up the mountain collect 6 sheep bring them back down the mountain going through a series of "gates" along the way. Herd them into a "ring" separate 2 of the sheep out of the group, get them all back together and then into a fenced area. We did not see any of the dogs and owners working together get the sheep into the fenced area, but they got points along the way for getting the sheep through the gates. It was very intersting and fun to watch. We enjoyed this enough to come again next year. We also watched a dog show in another arena. The dogs used in the show have all been picked up form dog shelters. A great

reminder that if you take the time all dogs can be trained. (Note to self . . . spend more time working with Chloe on her tricks. Rachael has been teaching her to roll over).












We watched someone in front of us eating this really yummy looking plate full of food. We couldn't resist and so Rachael and I went on a mission to find whatever this was. Neither of us remember what it was called, but it was good.

We ended our day up at the Dog Pool watching the jumping contest. Some of the dogs can really jump for a long ways across the pool.

We had a great day watching dogs do all kinds of things.