TEC Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Recommend having your favorite beverage in hand and carving out a few minutes for one or both of the following resources on training the border collie for stockwork. Below is a well stated essay by M. Amodei on communicating clearly to your dog in a stockwork context. Northface Farm Blog. This is a nice excerpt from " " by Shadowcat Films about shepherding on the British Borders. -- TEC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalahundur Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Thanks, just came in from feeding the sheep, horses and dogs. A good read (doesn't hurt to be reminded once and again...), and a nice vid, love the accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEC Posted December 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 What is it about the Scottish accent and speaking of border collies that captures attention? I liked the video, as well. I agree about good reminders. I thought Amodei succinctly expressed what a good portion of handlers seek to do in their training. It made me want to tidy-up things I am doing now. -- TEC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentleLake Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Did anyone put the closed captioning on? There were a couple of words I missed so I put it on and watched again. Whoever did the captioning didn't understand a lot of what was said. Pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEC Posted December 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 YouTube's automatic closed captioning evidently is based on a programmed phonetic-based model, which regularly misinterprets. It is notoriously horrible, and never fails to provide good laughs. Apparently the algorithm is not sufficiently sophisticated to read context. With a heavy Scottish accent, sometimes it is fun to simply try to figure-out parts on your own. May take a few rewinds. Winter Solstice today. We'll get more light everyday -- TEC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon's girl Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I watched w/o CC first and thought I mostly understood what he was saying, but when I turned on the CC I found myself rolling on the floor. That was hysterical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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