"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
Do you have any cattle other than Mootilda for them to stalk and
round up David? Speaking of Mootilda, how are you all getting along?

No, they practice on chooks and horses which is not really desireable,
chooks get nervous when they get The Stare.

LOL. I can see that chooklike nervousness now. My chooks don't like eye
contact for some reason even if I'm bringing them a tin of nice mixed grain
as a treat.

Flynn got concussed by a horse
last week so he is being more circumspect.

That'a valuable lesson worth having is you ask me.

I no longer have the type of
neighbours who would let them practice on their cattle and I don't know
enough about it to train them for such work just to be good
companion/guard dogs.

Mootilda is doing fine she gets a little lonely if she can't talk to the
cattle over the fence. The last dairy bull in the district is gone - sold
up and moved away and I don't have the brass right now to build yards with
a crush so we can try AI, so the milking project is on hold for now. But
overall she is healthy and happy enough.

It's a wonder she hasn't gone over a fence or three when she's bulling. Our
girls are right trollops if there's no bull in their paddock when they
decide they want one.