BOO

Maple Grove Farm’s BOO

SIRE: Jarratt’s Dallas

DAM: Maple Grove Farm Amarillo

BOO is from our Winter ’09 litter. She was born to a good Mama my sweet Amarillo…her good sire was “My” Dallas…

(Jan. 8, 2022)
I lost a good one today…There are not many words…

A good dog that never bothered a thing or a soul…

BOO was a good Mama…one of the best…she raised good puppies “Journey is one” and there are many, many more… Thank God for my “J”…

Some said early on I should put her down…THEY DID NOT KNOW ENGLISH SHEPHERDS!!!!

She was a good girl, my friend, myself appointed protector, she loved ME with all her heart…She was good at working sheep…she was a special keep them away from the gate dog…a special kind of just “holler” her name dog! It alone commanded respect from the sheep…Many is the time I spoke her name and the sheep retreated. (she was not insight)

Oh…the trails we have ridden! I recall the time she was 6 months old and took off after a deer. She was my only dog that did this. We were in the mountains, of course Drover being a young pup went with her, and she could find her way back to me. She always did! But this time, Drover went back to camp, unknown to me, and four hard-ridden hours later, there he sat waiting on ME! I was so very thankful! Then MAD! 🙂

One time BOO was just a pup, she and I went packing in and a couple ladies went with us. BOO protected us from three very stupid drunks way back up in the mountains of Virginia. I suspect they still remember a blur of a little (pup) at the time that refused to let them out of the truck…LOL! I encouraged the behavior at that time and that was all she needed. From that day forward she was on guard…(thus the should put her down comment) Because uneducated folk thought her over the top.

She was a good sheep dog…and even better cow dog. Fearless! and instinctive. Like the dogs in the Helms line before her. One time the neighbors cows got into our pasture and BOO held the cows for four hours in the corner of our field…all 21 of them till the neighbor was able to come home crank his tractor and call them back! When they went home, we followed. He could not get them in the gate at the barn, so BOO did the work for us! She was amazing! So much so, he was impressed…(Me too!) 🙂