Submitted by Matt (not verified) on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 10:24am.
When my wife and I were in New Zealand for a few months a couple of years ago we visited Walter Peak Station outside of Queenstown and watched a sheepherding demo with a handler and a single border collie named Moss. The handler gave the dog a few instructions, and we all watched in amazement as the dog ran about a half mile, rounded up a group of about 75 sheep on a distant hillside, and herded them in singlehandedly without any further instructions from the handler.
When we got our border collie a year later, we named him Moss! We found out later that it's actually quite a common name among herding dogs, and there was an English herding champ named Moss as well.
Moss the Border Collie
When my wife and I were in New Zealand for a few months a couple of years ago we visited Walter Peak Station outside of Queenstown and watched a sheepherding demo with a handler and a single border collie named Moss. The handler gave the dog a few instructions, and we all watched in amazement as the dog ran about a half mile, rounded up a group of about 75 sheep on a distant hillside, and herded them in singlehandedly without any further instructions from the handler.
When we got our border collie a year later, we named him Moss! We found out later that it's actually quite a common name among herding dogs, and there was an English herding champ named Moss as well.