Sheep Thrills Farm

08/12/2025

Ready for another fun weekend of trials?? We are! There are CKC and AHBA trials going on Sept 12-14!

Find the AHBA info here;
https://www.ahba-herding.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-09-Sep-12-13-Grandora-Saskatchewan-CAN-Flyer.pdf

And the SASSA CKC trials here:

https://dogshow.ca/en/Events/5816/Saskatoon-and-Area-Shetland-Sheepdog-Association-HERDING

07/21/2025

It was a little bit rainy, but the cooler temperatures made for a lovely weekend herding clinic.

We had a Border Collie, and Australian Cattle Dog, a Belgian Malinois, and a Dalmation working this weekend and they all showed great promise!

07/13/2025

2 AHBA All-Breed Herding Trials
Friday August 1st - premium list in the flyer link below:

2 HTAD Cattle
2 HTAD Ducks
2 HTAD Sheep

Judges:
Shelley Fritzke - BC
Kristin Thomson - BC

Flyer:

07/07/2025

July 26 & 27, 2025
We are holding a weekend workshop! Sessions include:

Waterfowl 101 - get your ducks and geese in a row! Learn some tips and basic fundamentals for trialing your dog on on feathered stock, and the differences in how ducks and geese work.

Trail Ready - with Jen Seaborn - pick up some handling techniques and trial etiquette tips. Navigation of a course, take and re-pens! Stock will be sheep.

Training Trial - with Shamus Page - This is a great opportunity to work out the kinks in your trial savy dog. Just like a real trial, but with ability to fix issues that seem to only happen during trials! Learn where your loosing points and get your scores up! Sheep and Ducks/Geese.

Workshop is $50/day come one or both! Includes a run in the Training Trial (Additional runs are $10)
If your only interested in the Training Trial entry are $15/run!

Comment to sign up below!

06/30/2025

Despite a bit of rain, we had a wonderful weekend herding clinic!

The next one will be on July 19-20, 2025.

Signup link: https://forms.gle/SuCLK64xPDucXG6U9

06/01/2025

We had fun this weekend at the first herding clinic of the year!

Interested in herding with your dog? There are a few more clinics left this summer, go to the following link for dates and details: https://forms.gle/rAgbFmR74TpbwRxH8

03/21/2025

The CKC released their Top Herding Dog Statistics today, and the following Sheep Thrills students made the list!

🐑 Pheobe & Kaili - #10 dog overall and #1 Old English Sheepdog

🐑 Saga & Ayoka - #4 Rottweiler

🐑 Griz & Shamus - #6 Australian Cattle Dog

🐑 Meera & Cheryl - #9 Australian Cattle Dog

🐑 Tonic & Meaghen - #3 Bearded Collie

🐑 Nina & Kristi - #1 German Shepherd Dog

🐑 Ollie & Kaili - #2 Old English Sheepdog

🐑 Tikka & Sandy - #2 Shetland Sheepdog

🐑 Nowell & Jason - #5 Shetland Sheepdog

Congratulations to you all!

03/08/2025

If anyone is looking for beef, we took a few of our steers in, and have some beef boxes available!

03/01/2025

Save the dates!

Ayoka Bubar will be returning this summer to teach a few herding clinics.

All breeds and all levels welcome!

Signup now at: https://forms.gle/Y7KywQD8JgUGJEcp8

01/15/2025

Lost a dear friend and one of the matriarchs of all-breed herding. In December, Lynn Leach suddenly passed away. Here is my triubute to her on behalf of the all-breed herding community. It hit me hard, and I wasn't really sure how to process it. I'm still struggling.

We would not be offering lessons or a herding venue if it wasn’t for Lynn's help amd guidance. When we (Shamus and myself) first started wanting to refine our dogs training we would drive 16 hours one way to take lessons from Lynn. We brought her out regularly to give clinics and judge over the years.

Lynn and I both had ACDs, we liked the same type of work ethic, work style and type. We talked lots about breeding and bloodlines, we collaborated in breeding, we traveled and trialed together.

I was honored when she asked me to handle her dogs, and even more honored when she asked me to take one on for training a couple seasons ago. I had to decline, as I haven't found time lately to work my own dogs. It was a huge honor for me to have one of my mentors ask me to train their dog.

So for everyone that has taken lessons from me, you can thank Lynn for assisting in getting all-breed lessons going here at Sheep Thrills!

The herding community suffered a devastating loss on December 10, 2024 with the sudden passing of Janet Lynn Leach (“Lynn”) ...

11/08/2024

Don't forget to order your photos by Lianne Matieshin Photography from the August ACDCC trials! So many nice shots its hard to choose!

Photo collection by Lianne Matieshin Photography